Editing Kaluga (section)

== Notable people ==
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Kaluga's most famous resident was rocket science pioneer [[Konstantin Tsiolkovsky]].

Other notable people include:
*[[Sergei Avagimyan]], former professional footballer. Born in Russia, he played for the [[Armenian national football team]].
*[[Alexander Amfiteatrov]]
*[[Yuri Averbakh]], chess [[Grandmaster (chess)|grandmaster]]
*[[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)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kaluga-gov.ru/index.php?do=cat&category=imi_gorditsja_kaluga|title=Ими гордится Калуга ("They Bring Pride to Kaluga")|publisher=Office of the Affairs of the Mayor of Kaluga|language=ru|access-date=2009-10-01|location=Kaluga|archive-date=24 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724022931/http://www.kaluga-gov.ru/index.php?do=cat&category=imi_gorditsja_kaluga|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[Larisa Popugayeva]]
*[[Nikolai Rakov]]
*[[Imam Shamil]]
*[[Nikolay Skvortsov (swimmer)|Nikolay Skvortsov]], swimmer
*[[Yuliya Tabakova]]
*[[Georgy Zhukov]]
*[[Olesya Zykina]], 400m athlete
*[[Bulat Okudzhava]], lived and taught Literature in public school in the 1950s.
*[[Serafim Tulikov]]
*[[Ivan Kuliak]]
* [[Stanislav Kunyaev]]