Aerial photography of Kaluga shows a city with a population of 336 thousand people 150 km from Moscow, its industry and historical sites. The video highlights the city's role in Russian cosmonautics through Tsiolkovsky's legacy, the historical significance of the region in its liberation from the Tatar-Mongol yoke, and the current state of the housing market.
- Duration
- 8 min 5 s
- Start
- Kaluga
- End
- Stary Torg Square
- Stops
- 2
- Channel author
- НАД ГОРОДАМИ
Timestamps and places
- — Kaluga (Flight over Kaluga)
- — Geography: distances to neighboring cities
- — Theater Square and the city center
- — The Oka River dividing the city
- — Kaluga as the capital of the Kaluga Region
- — The Ugra River and the Historic Standing (1480)
- — Stary Torg Square (Stary Torg Square and the monument to Ivan III)
- — Assumption Cathedral and the Moscow Kremlin
- — Gostiny Dvor (1823, restored 2015)
- — Railway station
- — Kaluga International Airport
- — Kozelsk (ancient city, 70 km from Kaluga)
- — Optina Hermitage (monastery complex)
- — The Zhizdra River and historical resistance
- — Historical comparison: the siege of Kiev and Kozelsk
Route on the map
OVER KALUGA. IS IT GOOD TO LIVE HERE?