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Place details
- Locality
- Жуков
- Region
- Калужская область
- Country
- Россия
- Population
- 12,300
- Timezone
- Europe/Moscow
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- Russia
- Federal subject
- Kaluga Oblast
- Administrative district
- Zhukovsky District
- Founded
- early 17th century
- Elevation
- 135 m (443 ft)
- Total
- 12,131
- Estimate 2023
- 15,656 ( +29.1% )
- Capital of
- Zhukovsky District
- Municipal district
- Zhukovsky Municipal District
- Urban settlement
- Zhukov Urban Settlement
- Time zone
- UTC+3 ( MSK )
- Postal code
- 249190–249192
- Website
- my-zhukov .ru
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Zhukov (Russian: Жу́ков) is a town and the administrative center of Zhukovsky District in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on the Ugodka River (Protva's tributary) 90 kilometers (56 mi) northwest of Kaluga, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: 16,224 (2021 census); 12,131 (2010 census); 12,306 (2002 census); 2,888 (1989 Soviet census).
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zhukov” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.