Kaluga Oblast

Kaluga Oblast Калужская область (Russian)
—  Oblast  —
Flag Coat of arms
Anthem: Anthem of Kaluga Oblast[1]
Coordinates: 54°26′N 35°26′E
Political status
Country	Russia
Federal district	Central[2]
Economic region	Central[3]
Established	July 5, 1944[4]
Administrative center	Kaluga
Government (as of August 2010)
• Governor[6]	Vladislav Shapsha[5]
• Legislature	Legislative Assembly[7]
Statistics
Area (as of the 2002 Census)[8]
• Total	29,800 km^2 (11,500 sq mi)
Area rank	64th
Population (2010 Census)[9]
• Total	1,010,930
• Rank	51st
• Density[10]	33.92/km^2 (87.9/sq mi)
• Urban	76.3%
• Rural	23.7%
Population (January 2013 est.)
• Total	1,005,585[11]
Time zone(s)	MSK (UTC+04:00)
ISO 3166-2	RU-KLU
License plates	40
Official languages	Russian[12]
Official website

Kaluga Oblast (Russian: Калу́жская о́бласть, romanized: Kaluzhskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia. Specifically, it is an oblast. Its administrative center (capital city) is the city of Kaluga. Kaluga Oblast had a population of 1,068,410 in 2024.^[9]

Geography

Kaluga Oblast is in the central part of the East European Plain. It is between the Central Russian Upland, the Smolensk-Moscow Upland, and the Dnieper-Desna watershed. Kaluga Oblast borders Bryansk Oblast in the southwest, Oryol Oblast in the south, Tula Oblast in the east, Moscow Oblast in the northeast, the federal city of Moscow, and Smolensk Oblast in the northwest.

Kaluga Oblast has a continental climate.

Demographics

According to the results of the 2010 Census, the population of the oblast is 1,010,930;^[13] down from 1,041,641 recorded in the 2002 Census,^[14] and further down from 1,066,833 recorded in the 1989 Census.^[15]

• Births: 11 835 (11.8 per 1000)
• Deaths: 15 806 (15.7 per 1000) ^[16]
• Total fertility rate:^[17]

2014 - 1.69 | 2015 - 1.84 | 2016 - 1.79 (e)

Ethnic groups

Ethnic Groups	Number in 2010[18]
Russians	869,031 (93.1%)
Ukrainians	16,662 (1.8%)
Armenians	9,962 (1%)
Belarusians	4,557 (0.5%)
Tatars	4,206 (0.4%)
Azerbaijanis	3,498 (0.4%)
Uzbeks	3,482 (0.4%)
Others	22,240 (2.4%)
Only those ethnic groups whose total number exceeds 1,000 people are included in this table

Largest cities and towns

Largest cities or towns in Kaluga Oblast 2010 Russian Census
	Rank		Administrative Division	Pop.
Kaluga Obninsk	1	Kaluga	City of oblast significance of Kaluga	324,698
	2	Obninsk	City of oblast significance of Obninsk	104,739
	3	Lyudinovo	Lyudinovsky District	40,530
	4	Kirov	Kirovsky District	31,882
	5	Maloyaroslavets	Maloyaroslavetsky District	30,392
	6	Balabanovo	Borovsky District	26,337
	7	Kozelsk	Kozelsky District	18,245
	8	Kondrovo	Dzerzhinsky District	16,672
	9	Sukhinichi	Sukhinichsky District	16,273
	10	Tovarkovo	Dzerzhinsky District	14,496

Administrative and municipal divisions

See the main article: Administrative divisions of Kaluga Oblast

Kaluga Oblast is divided into twenty-four districts and four cities of oblast significance.

Notable people

• Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky (1857–1935) — rocket scientist.
• Saint Ambrose of Optina (1812–1891) — a minister of the Russian Orthodox Church, Hieromonk.

Born on the territory of modern Kaluga Oblast

• Georgy Zhukov (1896—1974), Soviet military leader, the Marshal of the Soviet Union (as of 1943)
• Eudoxia Lopukhina (1669—1731), Tsarina, the first wife of Peter the Great
• Yevdokiya Streshneva (1608—1645), Tsarina, the second wife of Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov
• Pafnuty Chebyshev (1821—1894), Russian mathematician and mechanical engineer
• Mikhail Yanshin (1902—1976), Soviet actor and film director
• Tatiana Shevtsova (b. 1969), Russian Deputy Minister of Defence

References

1. Law #423-OZ
2. Президент Российской Федерации. Указ №849 от 13 мая 2000 г. «О полномочном представителе Президента Российской Федерации в федеральном округе». Вступил в силу 13 мая 2000 г. Опубликован: "Собрание законодательства РФ", №20, ст. 2112, 15 мая 2000 г. (President of the Russian Federation. Decree #849 of May 13, 2000 On the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in a Federal District. Effective as of May 13, 2000.).
3. Госстандарт Российской Федерации. №ОК 024-95 27 декабря 1995 г. «Общероссийский классификатор экономических регионов. 2. Экономические районы», в ред. Изменения №5/2001 ОКЭР. (Gosstandart of the Russian Federation. #OK 024-95 December 27, 1995 Russian Classification of Economic Regions. 2. Economic Regions, as amended by the Amendment #5/2001 OKER. ).
4. Charter of Kaluga Oblast, Article 3.2
5. Official website of the Governor of Kaluga Oblast. Anatoly Dmitriyevich Artamonov Archived 2017-09-10 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
6. Charter of Kaluga Oblast, Article 26.1
7. Charter of Kaluga Oblast, Article 18.1
8. Федеральная служба государственной статистики (Federal State Statistics Service) (2004-05-21). "Территория, число районов, населённых пунктов и сельских администраций по субъектам Российской Федерации (Territory, Number of Districts, Inhabited Localities, and Rural Administration by Federal Subjects of the Russian Federation)". Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года (All-Russia Population Census of 2002) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
9. rosstat2024
10. The density value was calculated by dividing the population reported by the 2010 Census by the area shown in the "Area" field. Please note that this value may not be accurate as the area specified in the infobox is not necessarily reported for the same year as the population.
11. Kaluga Oblast Territorial Branch of the Federal State Statistics Service. Численность населения Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
12. Official throughout the Russian Federation according to Article 68.1 of the Constitution of Russia.
13. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года (2010 All-Russia Population Census) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. 2011. Retrieved June 29, 2012.
14. Численность населения России, субъектов Российской Федерации в составе федеральных округов, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов – районных центров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3 тысячи и более человек [Population of Russia, its federal districts, federal subjects, districts, urban localities, rural localities—administrative centers, and rural localities with population of over 3,000]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года (All-Russia Population Census of 2002) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. May 21, 2004. Retrieved 9 Feb 2012.
15. Demoscope Weekly (1989). Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность наличного населения союзных и автономных республик, автономных областей и округов, краёв, областей, районов, городских поселений и сёл-райцентров. [All Union Population Census of 1989. Present population of union and autonomous republics, autonomous oblasts and okrugs, krais, oblasts, districts, urban settlements, and villages serving as district administrative centers]. Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 года (All-Union Population Census of 1989) (in Russian). Institute of Demographics of the State University—Higher School of Economics. Retrieved 9 Feb 2012.
16. "Естественное движение населения в разрезе субъектов Российской Федерации". Archived from the original on 2013-03-01. Retrieved 2022-10-04.
17. "Каталог публикаций::Федеральная служба государственной статистики". www.gks.ru. Archived from the original on 2013-03-24.
18. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года (2010 All-Russia Population Census) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. 2011. Retrieved June 29, 2012.

Other websites

• Kropotkin, Peter Alexeivitch; Bealby, John Thomas (1911). "Kaluga (government)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). p. 644.
• Official website of Kaluga Oblast (in Russian)
• Official website of Anatoly Artamonov, Governor of Kaluga Oblast (in Russian)