The book is dedicated to the memory of Vasily Dmitrievich Vinogradov (12.04.1880-1921), a Kaluga city architect, whose twenty-year life period was devoted to the construction of Kaluga, the creation of its unique appearance. Before the reader will be a series of architectural structures of the late XIX - early XX centuries, built in Kaluga during this period. The author will open the pages of his family albums, where V.D. Vinogradov appears with his family. Many decades of research activity allowed A.S. Dneprovsky to accumulate rich material on the history of the Kaluga Territory. In his new book, the author generously shares with the reader invaluable information on the history of Kaluga urban planning at the turn of the 19th - 20th centuries. For the first time, materials were presented about the life and work as a city architect and builder of Kaluga Vasily Dmitrievich Vinogradov.