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On a corner where Ulitsa Tsiolkovskogo and Ulitsa Akademika Koroleva meet, there is a monument which depicts an imagined meeting between the streets' namesakes: Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the founding father of Russian theoretical cosmonautics and Sergei Korolev, the founding father of Russian practical cosmonautics.
Kaluga Oblast is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Kaluga. It was created in 1944 out of four other oblasts: Moskva Oblast, Orel Oblast, Smolensk Oblast, and Tula Oblast. It is located at the historical region of the former Kaluga Governorate.