Kaluga
Kaluga is the capital of Kaluga Oblast, with a population of some 340,000, known as the "Russian Cradle of Space Exploration".
- Type: City with 334,000 residents
- Description: town and administrative center of Kaluga Oblast in central Russia
- Also known as: “Kalyga”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Space History Museum and Tsiolkovsky memorial house (Kaluga).
Space History Museum
Museum
Kaluga
- Categories: city or town, big city, administrative divisions of Russia, and locality
- Location: Kaluga Oblast, Central Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.5101° or 54° 30′ 36″ north
Longitude
36.2598° or 36° 15′ 35″ east
Population
334,000
Elevation
208 metres (682 feet)
Inception
1371
IATA airport code
KLF
United Nations Location Code
RU KLF
Open location code
9G6RG765+2W
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
Discover Kaluga from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kaluga” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kaloega”
- Albanian: “Kaluga”
- Amharic: “ካሉጋ”
- Arabic: “كالوغا”
- Armenian: “Կալուգա”
- Asturian: “Kaluga”
- Azerbaijani: “Kaluqa”
- Bashkir: “Калуга”
- Basque: “Kaluga”
- Belarusian: “Калуга”
- Bengali: “কালুগা”
- Bulgarian: “Калуга”
- Catalan: “Kaluga”
- Cebuano: “Kaluga”
- Chechen: “Калуга”
- Chinese: “卡卢加”
- Chinese: “卡盧加”
- Chuvash: “Калуга”
- Crimean Tatar: “Kaluga”
- Croatian: “Kaluga”
- Czech: “Kaluga”
- Danish: “Kaluga”
- Dimli (individual language): “Kaluga”
- Dutch: “Kaloega”
- Eastern Mari: “Калуга”
- Eastern Mari: “Калуго”
- Erzya: “Калуга ош”
- Esperanto: “Kaluga”
- Estonian: “Kaluga”
- Finnish: “Kaluga”
- French: “Kalouga”
- Galician: “Kaluga”
- Georgian: “კალუგა”
- German: “Kaluga”
- Greek: “Καλούγκα”
- Gujarati: “કાલુગા”
- Hausa: “Kaluga”
- Hebrew: “קלוגה”
- Hindi: “कालुगा”
- Hindi: “कालूगा”
- Hungarian: “Kaluga”
- Ido: “Kaluga”
- Inari Sami: “Kaluga”
- Indonesian: “Kaluga”
- Interlingue: “Kaluga”
- Irish: “Kaluga”
- Italian: “Kaluga”
- Japanese: “カルーガ”
- Javanese: “Kaluga”
- Kannada: “ಕಲೂಗಾ”
- Kazakh: “Калуга”
- Kirghiz: “Калуга”
- Komi: “Калуга”
- Korean: “칼루가”
- Ladin: “Kaluga”
- Latin: “Caluga”
- Latvian: “Kaluga”
- Lithuanian: “Kaluga”
- Luxembourgish: “Kaluga”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Kaluga”
- Macedonian: “Калуга”
- Malagasy: “Kaluga”
- Malay: “Kaluga”
- Maltese: “Kaluga”
- Marathi: “कालुगा”
- Mingrelian: “კალუგა”
- Moksha: “Калуга”
- Mongolian: “Калуга”
- Northern Frisian: “Kaluga”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kaluga”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kaluga”
- Norwegian: “Kaluga”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kaluga”
- Oromo: “Kaluga”
- Ossetian: “Калугæ”
- Panjabi: “ਕਾਲੂਗਾ”
- Persian: “کالوگا”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Kaluga”
- Polish: “Kaługa”
- Portuguese: “Kaluga”
- Pushto: “کالوګا”
- Pushto: “کالوگا”
- Romanian: “Kaluga”
- Russian: “Калуга”
- Russian: “Калу́га”
- Scots: “Kaluga”
- Serbian: “Калуга”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kaluga”
- Sicilian: “Kaluga”
- Silesian: “Kaługa”
- Sinhala: “කලුගා”
- Slovak: “Kaluga”
- Slovenian: “Kaluga”
- Somali: “Kaluga”
- South Azerbaijani: “کالوقا، روسیه”
- South Azerbaijani: “کالوقا”
- Spanish: “Kaluga”
- Swahili: “Kaluga”
- Swedish: “Kaluga”
- Tagalog: “Kaluga”
- Tajik: “Калуга”
- Tajik: “Колуго”
- Talysh: “Kaluga”
- Talysh: “Kaluqa”
- Tamil: “கலுகா”
- Tatar: “Калуга”
- Telugu: “కలుగా”
- Thai: “คาลูกา”
- Turkish: “Kaluga”
- Twi: “Kaluga”
- Udmurt: “Калуга”
- Ukrainian: “Калуга”
- Ukrainian: “Калуґа”
- Upper Sorbian: “Kaluga”
- Urdu: “کالوگا”
- Uzbek: “Kaluga”
- Veps: “Kalug”
- Vietnamese: “Kaluga”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kaluga”
- Welsh: “Kaluga”
- Western Frisian: “Kalûga”
- Western Panjabi: “کلوگا”
- Wu Chinese: “卡卢加”
- Yue Chinese: “卡盧加”
- “Калуга”
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