Kaluga

Kaluga is a city in western Russia, located on the Oka River 188 km southwest of Moscow. It is the administrative center of Kaluga Oblast.
Kaluga was founded in the mid-14th century as a border fortress on the southwestern borders of the Muscovy. Kaluga is known for its most famous resident, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a rocket science pioneer who worked here as a school teacher. There is a museum in Kaluga dedicated to his theoretical achievements and their practical implementations for modern space research, hence the motto on the city's coat of arms: "The Cradle of Space Exploration".

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaluga
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Coordinates:  54°32'12"N 36°13'40"E
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