Notable People
Kaluga is known for its most famous resident, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a rocket science pioneer who worked here as a school teacher. The Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics in Kaluga is 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".
Other notable people include:
- Alexander Amfiteatrov
- Yuri Averbakh
- Mykola Azarov
- Pafnuty Chebyshev, mathematician
- Alexander Chizhevsky
- David Edelstadt
- Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian-American composer
- Jonah of Hankou
- Andrei Kalaychev
- Valery Kobelev, ski jumper
- Mikhail Linge
- Pavel Popovich, cosmonaut, the only person to receive two honorary citizenships of Kaluga (1962 and 1964)
- Nikolai Rakov
- Imam Shamil
- Nikolay Skvortsov, swimmer
- Yuliya Tabakova
- Georgy Zhukov
- Olesya Zykina
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