Kondrovo, Kaluga Oblast

Kondrovo (Russian: Ко́ндрово) is a town and the administrative center of Dzerzhinsky District in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on the Shanya River (a tributary of the Ugra in the Oka's basin), 40 kilometers (25 mi) northwest of Kaluga, the administrative center of the oblast.

[8] Originally known as Kondyrevo (Кондырево), it was a votchina of Dmitry Kondyrin, a Russian voyevoda who was granted these lands for his service during the second war with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1500–1501.

[citation needed] During World War II, Kondrovo was occupied by the German Army from October 9, 1941 to January 19, 1942.

[3] The town's paper mill KBK (Kodrovskaya Bumazhnaya Kompaniya) is still the main industrial enterprise.

It produces parchment, notebooks, toilet paper, and female hygiene articles.

KBK paper mill
Railway station in Kondrovo