The Kaluga region is situated in the Central Federal District of the Russian Federation, 60 km from Moscow (Moscow city and the Kaluga region has a common border, according to Russian Government decision), borders with 5 regions of the Russian Federation.

Area – 29,8 thousand km2.
Population – 1002,9 thousand people.
Regional centre – Kaluga city (343 thousand people) is situated 150 km to the south-west from Moscow.

Foreign economic activity

Foreign trade partners – companies from over than 90 countries of the world (look for details the last section of this document “Investment activity”). Foreign trade turnover in 2010 comprised 6,4 bln. US $.
The main commercial partners of the region are Germany, Finland, Austria, Japan, China, Netherlands. Foreign countries share in total trade turnover of the region equals 94%. Fourteen factories were built in the Kaluga region in 2010. According to the investment prospects rating by World Organization of Creditors in 2011, the Kaluga region is on the first place in the Central Federal District and on the third one in Russia. Foreign investments’ volume to the Kaluga region is 4.6 bln. dollars from 2006 to
05.2011.

Market infrastructure

• 4 regional banks and 27 branches of foreign credit organizations function in the Kaluga region;
• two regional insurance organizations;
• 23 branches of insurance companies of other regions;
• 4 organizations rendering leasing services;
• organizations rendering consultative services in the sphere of economics, audit and management; Kaluga Chamber of Commerce.

Transport infrastructure

According to the density index of railroads and motor roads the Kaluga region belongs to the top 20 regions of Russia. The territory of the region is crossed by two federal highways (Moscow-Brest, Moscow-Kiev). Means of communications network of the region includes 872 km of railroads. Total length of road-transport network of general use in the region comprises over 5 thousand km, including 0,8 thousand km of federal and 4,2 thousand km of regional use. Share of hard-surface roads in the network of general use comprises 98,6% from the total length. Part of the Oka river (total length of 101 km) is used for navigation.

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Common information about Region

Investment potential