Kaluga
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Kaluga is a city and the administrative center of Kaluga Oblast, Russia. It stands on the Oka River 150 kilometers southwest of Moscow. Its population was 337,058 at the 2021 census.
Калуга. Присутственные места
Гостинный двор
Калуга. Троицкий собор
Государственный музей истории космонавтики
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky was a Russian rocket scientist who pioneered astronautics. Along with Hermann Oberth and Robert H. Goddard, he is one of the pioneers of space flight and the foundin
Kaluga
…under the Russian Empire, and has served as the seat of regional administration since 1776. 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…
Tsiolkovsky in 1924
Tsiolkovsky's family (1908)
A draft first space ship by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, 1883
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky with his steel dirigibles in his garden, 1913