A regular Yekaterinburg – Kaluga flight, first one in the modern history of Koltsovo international airport (affiliated with the Airports of Regions holding), was operated on 2 March 2019. Flight 7R-845 of RusLine Airlines departed fr om Koltsovo at 19:20 and landed in Kaluga airport 2.5 hours later.
Flights to Kaluga will be performed Tuesdays and Saturdays by Bombardier CRJ-200ER. The departure from Yekaterinburg is at 19:20 local time while the departure from Kaluga is scheduled for 20:30.
The population of Kaluga is about 340,000; the city is proud of its rich history and a multitude of tourist routes. It is notable for numerous churches, nobility manors, former merchant houses. Kaluga is also famous for being a cradle of Russian space aeronautics, since this is wh ere the famous scientist and inventor Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the founder of theoretical astronautics, once dwelled.