Kaluga walking route: Theater Square to Stary Torg Square
The route covers the main attractions of Kaluga: Theater Square with a drama theater, the Assumption Cathedral, Stary Torg Square and Gostiny Dvor of the XIX century. It includes the historical and cultural centers of the city on the banks of the Oka River, as well as nearby facilities in Kozelsk and the Optina Pustyn monastery complex.
- Mode
- Places
- Start
- Kaluga
- End
- Stary Torg Square
- Stops
- 2
- Video author
- travmap
- Updated
Stops on this route
- Kaluga
- Stary Torg Square — The square in front of the building of the regional administration with a monument to Prince Ivan III.
Useful for your trip
- Transport
- Kaluga is 150 km from Moscow. Nearest major cities: Tula 110 km, Bryansk 227 km, Smolensk 340 km. Also close to Belarus border (~300 km).
- Save money
- Average housing price: 32,000 rubles per sq.m. vs Moscow's ~200,000 rubles per sq.m. A new 150-200 sq.m. penthouse costs same as small Moscow apartment.
- Timing
- Summer average temperature +15-20°C, winter similar with minus sign (-15 to -20°C).
- Timing
- City Day celebration held last Saturday of August at Theatre Square.
- Tip
- City divided by Oka River: left bank has city center, right bank is residential area with new buildings.
- Transport
- Kaluga has railway station with traditional rail service and an international airport.
- Tip
- Visit Tsiolkovsky Memorial - he lived/worked here 1892-1935. Father of Russian cosmonautics whose theories made space flight possible.
- Tip
- Площадь Старый Торг features monument to Moscow Prince Ivan III and Gostiny Dvor (1823), a 19th-century trading center restored in 2015.
- Tip
- 70 km from Kaluga: Kozelsk (12th century city) and Optina Pustyn monastery complex (14th-18th century architecture), important for pilgrims.
- Avoid
- When Moscow needs extra snow removal equipment, Kaluga experiences traffic chaos due to equipment being diverted there.
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