Science, Education, and Culture
As of the beginning of the 2009-2010 academic year, there were 403 public day-time general education institutions for 85,500 students. As of 2009, there were 27 higher education institutions. As of 2009, there were 413 day-time general education institutions. In 2007, a center for training of car manufacturing industry specialists was established. Special classes with instruction in the French, German, and English languages were opened for children of foreigners working in Kaluga Oblast. The first Science Town – Obninsk that was established in Russia is situated in Kaluga Oblast. It carries out research in the areas of atomic power, space and telemechanic technologies, and radio equipment and instrument making industry. These are some of the major scientific institutions of the oblast:
- Physics and Energy Institute named after A.I. Leypunsky State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation
- The Obninsk branch of Physics and Chemical Institute named after L.Y. Karpov State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation.
- Technologiya Obninsk Scientific Production Company State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation.
- Kaluga Scientific Research and Radio Technology Institute Federal Scientific and Production Center
- Medical Radiological Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences
- Electronic Equipment Scientific Research Center
- Space Materials Science” of the Crystallography Institute named after A.V. Shubnikov of the Russian Academy of Sciences Scientific Research Center
- Specialized Space Equipment Design Bureau of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- KNIITMU Federal State Unitary Enterprise
- All-Union Physiology, Biochemistry, and Animal Food Scientific Research Institute
- All-Union Hydro Meteorological Scientific Research Institute
- All-Union Electronic Equipment Scientific Research Institute
- All-Union Agricultural Radiology and Agro-Ecology Scientific Research Institute
- All-Union Agricultural Meteorology Scientific Research Institute
- All-Union Timber Processing Scientific Research Institute
These are the main education institutions of the oblast:
- Kaluga State University named after K.E. Tsiolkovsky
- Obninsk Atomic Power Institute NIYAU MIFI
- Kaluga branch of the Moscow State Technical University named after N.E. Bauman
- Kaluga branch of the Agricultural University
Kaluga Oblast is one of the 15 federal subjects in which the subject “Basics of the Orthodox Culture”. was introduced in the regional curriculum as of September 1, 2006. There is Kaluga Regional Dramatic Theater named after A.V. Lunacharsky in the oblast.
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