Lyudinovo (Russian: Люди́ново) is a town and the administrative center of Lyudinovsky District in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on the shores of Lake Lompad formed by a dam on the Nepolot River, 188 kilometers (117 mi) southwest of Kaluga, the administrative center of the oblast.

[2] At the beginning of the 18th century, a Russian industrialist from Ural, Evdokim Demidov, ordered two dams to be built on the Nepolot river.

Ivan Akimovich Mal’tsov bought the metallurgy works from the Demidov family, and his son, Sergei Mal'tsov was responsible for developing the area into a centre of industrial production.

The peak of the industrial boom was here in 1875-1885 when the government ordered a lot of locomotives and train carriages from the local factories.

They suddenly attacked the main column of 1088th Infantry Regiment on march by aviation and tanks.

Soviet column was attacked directly on the road and the heavy snow didn't give the truck drivers any chance for maneuvering.

There was no any organised defence of the town, only several villages near Lyudinovo were still defended by the Soviet forces.

During the night of 17, January the last Soviet units left Lyudinovo and retreated several kilometers north where commander of the division Col. Gartsev ordered to establish new defensive line.

At the end of July, Soviet 123 independent rifle brigade was encircled near Krutoye and destroyed.

[11] Local resistance movement under command of 16 years old Alexey Semyonovich Shumavtsov made many successful missions such as blowing up the bridge, power plant, fuel depot and a lot of enemy trucks.

[12] In January 1942 Alexey Shumavtsov was ordered to collect the information about the German defences north-west from Lyudinovo.

[13] At the end of 1942, local traitor who worked together with Alexey Shumavtsov in locomobile factory found out the group and reported to Germans about them.

On the morning of 9 September Soviet forces entered the eastern outskirts of Lyudinovo following the chaotic German retreat.

[11] On 16 February 1944 State Defense Committee decided to make a huge investment in Lyudinovo Locomotive Plant to help its reconstruction.

In 1812 fierce fighting was there in the second half of the year over Tobacco and Ecstasy on streets On 17 January 2025 Ukrainian drones struck an oil depot in Lyudinovo with falling debris causing a fire[15] detected by NASA's FIRMS.