Kaluga State University named after K.E. Tsiolkovskij
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Kaluga State University (KSU, Russian: Калужский государственный университет), or, in full, Kaluga State University in the name of K. E. Tsiolkovsky (Russian: Калужский государственный университет имени К. Э. Циолковского), is a university in Kaluga, Russia.
The university was founded in 1948 as Kaluga State Pedagogical Institute. In 1963 it was named K. E. Tsiolkovsky Kaluga State Pedagogical Institute, in honour of rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. In 1994 it became K. E. Tsiolkovsky Kaluga State Pedagogical University, and in 2010 K. E. Tsiolkovsky Kaluga State University.
The university consists of nine institutes:
Also The University has Institute for the Development of Professional Competencies.
There are three museums in the university: The Museum of KSU's history; The Museum-study of Alexander Chizhevsky; The Museum of the Natural Sciences' Institute.
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