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Kaluga (Russian: Калу́га, IPA: [kɐˈɫuɡə]) 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.
Kaluga, city and administrative centre of Kaluga oblast (region), western Russia, west of Moscow on the Oka River. Founded in the 14th century as a stronghold against the Tatars on the southern borders of Muscovy, it later became a seat of provincial administration.
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Sep 14, 2024 · Kaluga, oblast (region), western Russia. It occupies an area in the upper Oka River basin southwest of Moscow oblast. Broad, often swampy valleys alternate with rolling hills of the Central Russian Upland. The natural vegetation—mixed forest of oak, spruce, pine, and birch—survives over only.
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The Kaluga Region has many places of exquisite beauty – a variety of landscapes, river bends, vast fields and meadows, villages with churches and monasteries artistically intermingled with the natural landscape.
Nikola-Lenivets, a village in the Kaluga Region (220 kilometers south of Moscow), is a combination of seemingly uncombinable things: modern art objects, a traditional Russian landscape with...
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