Information about the city of Kaluga
Status: a town of regional subordination, the administrative center of the Kaluga Region.
Kaluga is situated on the Central Russian Upland, on the left bank of the Oka River,
188 km south-west of Moscow.
Phone code: +7 (4842) ******
Economy.
Leading industries: machinebuilding and metalworking, food and light
industry, electric power engineering, building materials industry etc.
Over 80 % of industrial output falls within the enterprises of machinebuilding
(for example, the Kaluga Plant of Transport Machinebuilding), metalworking and food industry. Electrical power engineering
occupies the third place.
Agriculture: dairy stock farming, pig breeding, poultry farming,
plants cultivation.
Culture.
Theatres: legitimate drama, puppet theatre, experimental youth's
theatre-studio "TUZ".
Museums: Fine Art Museum, Local Lore Museum, Museum of Cosmonautics
n.a. K.E. Tsiolkovsky, House-Museum of K.E. Tsiolkovsky, Museum of Handicraft,
Architecture and Everyday Life, Scientific-Memorial and Cultural Center of A.L.
Chizhevsky, Picture Gallery.
Planetarium.
Sights: stone chambers of Krobov, stone residential houses of the
18th century; churches: Pokrov na Rvu, George za Verkhom, the Transfiguration of the Savior,,
Znameniya; chambers of Makarov, the so called house of Obolensky, stone Berezuisky bridge,
Trinity Cathedral, Gostiny Dvor, Nobility Assembly.
Park complex "City-Park" - international park of entertainments and tourism.
Mountain ski complex "Kvan" - the longest mountain ski slope in the center of
Russia (over 850 km).
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