The street of Kirov in Kaluga, a Central street of the city, and, as befits each "main street", it is concentrated the cultural and entertainment facilities and the main offices of commercial organizations: shopping centers (shopping center "XXI century", "RIO", "Kaluga", "European", and others), court of Arbitration, the Music House, city market, city Ambulance station, Kaluga Central office of Sberbank of Russia, the building of the cinema "Central", artists ' House and so on. All this on a two-kilometer stretch of the city (this is the length of the street) complement the shops on the first floors of residential houses, cafes, several monuments, and two churches – the Church of the Holy myrrh-Bearers and Church of St. John the Baptist.
In ancient times merchant of Kaluga, this street was called Haymarket. It to the homonymous square was driving the wagon loaded with hay. In place of the square of the Nurses proceeded Berezutskiy the Creek (it was covered in the XIX century), which later organized the horse fair and the pond. In the late nineteenth century, it opened the city "oral & written" bath, but she was not popular among the citizens, causing only ridicule because of the icy water, and was soon closed.
Now Kirov street starts and ends on squares with ring (square of Peace and Victory), in the slang of Kaluga is called "dumbbells" (similar to equipment). Another area of the Theatre, in the middle of the street.
Today Kirov street is very different from what it was 10 years ago. On the site of many ancient buildings rose modern buildings, disappeared the alley that separated the roadway, along with green spaces. But he kept up a long tradition: in the evening, young people gather on the weekend is shopping and entertainment for the whole family, for the holidays the roadway, and there are processions, parades, and masquerades.