Place:Kaluga, Kaluga, Russia

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NameKaluga
Alt namesКалу́гаsource: Wikipedia
TypeAdministrative City
Coordinates54.517°N 36.267°E
Located inKaluga, Russia     (1371 - )
Contained Places
Orthodox church
Lisino
Rozhdestvo
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source: Family History Library Catalog

Kaluga is an inhabited place.


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Kaluga, a city and the administrative center of Kaluga Oblast in Russia, stands on the Oka River southwest of Moscow. Population:

Kaluga's most famous resident, the space travel pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, worked there as a school teacher from 1892 to 1935. The Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics in Kaluga is dedicated to his theoretical achievements and to their practical implementations for modern space research, hence the motto on the city's coat of arms: , Kolybélʹ kosmonávtiki (The Cradle of Space-Exploration").

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