Kaluga
Kaluga is a city and the administrative center of Kaluga Oblast, Russia.
Kaluga is a city and the administrative center of Kaluga Oblast, Russia. It stands on the Oka River 150 kilometers (93 mi) southwest of Moscow. Its population was 337,058 at the 2021 census.
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Worth seeing in and around Kaluga
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics
The Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics is the first museum in the world dedicated to the history of space exploration. It was opened on 3 October 1967 in Kaluga, and is named after Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a school master and rocket science pioneer who lived most of his life in this city.
5 km · first museum of space exploration (1967) · Wikipedia - 02Kaluga Region Drama Theatre
Kaluga Regional Drama Theatre is a Russian theatre in Kaluga. One of the oldest operating drama theaters of Russia.
4.1 km · drama theatre in the city of Kaluga · Wikipedia - 03Pyatnitskoye Cemetery
The Pyatnitskoye Сemetery is one of the graveyards in the Russian town Kaluga. It is among the oldest and largest resting places in the city.
3.1 km · cemetery in Kaluga · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Vostok
On June 21, 1973, a real rocket (duplicate) "Vostok" measuring 38 m was installed in the park named after K.E.
- 02Stone
Pushkin street (across the Berezuisky ravine).
- 03Gostiny Dvor
Lenin (public transport stop "Ploschal Old Trading").
- 04Church of Cosmas and Damian
An architectural monument in the Baroque style, built in 1794.
- 05Monument to the Fallen in Local Conflicts
The monument, designed by the architect Yevgeny Golyshev, was made in St.
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Where to eat
Grill-bar "Wings, ul. Kirov, 39 Shopping center "Evropeyskiy", 4th floor,. Fri Sat 11:00 - 02:00, Sun - Thu 11:00 - 24:00. Cuisines: beer, European, Russian. Grill menu, children's menu, cocktail menu. 2 halls, 240 seats. Children's play corner. Free Wi-Fi. Business lunch: 11:00 - 16:00. On average 280 ₽. Restaurant "La Grillade, ul. Academician Korolev 16,. Daily 11:00 - 00:00.. European cuisine with Asian flavors.
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Getting to Kaluga
- Airports
- Vnukovo (VKO), 131 km · Domodedovo (DME), 141 km · Zhukovsky (ZIA), 163 km
- Stations
- "Kaluga" (Grabtsevo) Airport, 5.5 km
- Moscow → Kaluga161 km · quickest by road, 3h 34m · ₽650–870
- Tunoshna → Kaluga412 km · quickest by road, 8h 49m · ₽1,720–2,290
- Nizhny Novgorod → Kaluga527 km · quickest by road, 11h 11m · ₽2,260–3,010
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Kaluga
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kaluga. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Kaluga
- Novozhdamirovohuman settlement in Kaluga Urban Okrug, Kaluga Oblast, Russia6.5 km