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1. Kaluga is before us, an old Russian town on the Oka River. Kaluga is over 600 years old. It was first mentioned in the historical documents in 1371. At present Kaluga is a regional center with the population of 350,000 people, the town of workers, engineers, builders and students. The town grows from day to day. Many comfortable dwelling houses, administrative buildings, shopping centers and cultural establishments have been built in Kaluga. Today Kaluga is a modern industrial city. It produces diesel locomotives and tracklayers, turbines and pianoes. The products of the Kaluga plants are exported to 80 countries of the world. Kaluga was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Order of Labor Red Banner.

2. Kaluga is rich in architectural monuments of the past. The most important of them are protected by the state. Korobovs’ Mansion built in the 17^th century is the oldest stone dwelling house in the town.

3. The Gostiny Dvor built in the 18^th century is the old trading center of Kaluga. It consists of 14 stone buildings-shops. Its construction of this architectural ensemble.

4. Kaluga is famous for the Tsiolkovsky State Museum of Cosmonautics. It was built in 1967. The Cosmos Palace was built from the designs by a group of Moscow and Kaluga architects. This museum illustrates the achievements of the Soviet science of astronautics.

5. K.E.Tsiokovsky died in Kaluga in 1935. He was buried in the park which is now named after K.E.Tsiolkovsky. On the grave of the founder of space navigation there stands a memorial obelisk. It was erected in 1936 from the design by the architect B.Dmitriev.

6. On the occasion of the centenary of K.Tsiolkovsky’s birth the Monument to the scientist was erected in Peace Square. This monument has become the symbol of Kaluga – the cradle of Cosmonautics.

7. The citizens of the town of Cosmonautics are proud of their age-old and at the same time ever youthful city.