Kaluga

Kaluga straddles the Oka River in Kaluga Oblast, and its riverside position helped make it a regional centre west of Moscow. The city is closely associated with Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the pioneer of astronautics who lived and worked here for much of his life. His preserved house and the Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics give Kaluga an unusually direct link to the early ideas of spaceflight. Beyond the centre, the Oka’s broad valley and wooded banks provide a quieter setting for the city’s scientific legacy. Discover how Kaluga belongs to the wider Oka valley by browsing webcams nearby.

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