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Kaluga

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Ka·lu·ga  (k-lg)
A city of west-central Russia southwest of Moscow. It is an industrial center and a river port. Population: 329,000.
Kaluga (Russian) [kaˈlugə]
n
(Placename) a city in central Russia, on the Oka River. Pop.: 342 400 (1999 est.)
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Noun1.Kaluga - a city of central Russia to the south of Moscow
Russian Federation, Russia - a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state
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As a bleeding, mortally wounded animal licks its wounds, they remained inert in Moscow for five weeks, and then suddenly, with no fresh reason, fled back: they made a dash for the Kaluga road, and (after a victory- for at Malo-Yaroslavets the field of conflict again remained theirs) without undertaking a single serious battle, they fled still more rapidly back to Smolensk, beyond Smolensk, beyond the Berezina, beyond Vilna, and farther still.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
At home in our village of Kaluga all the peasants and all the women have drunk up all they possessed, and now they can't pay us any rent.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
 
 
 
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