Tula, Central Federal District, Russia

Economy | Armaments industry | Other companies | Culture | Education | Transportation

🇷🇺 Tula (Тула) is the largest city and the administrative centre of Tula Oblast in Russia, located 193 km (120 mi) south of Moscow. Tula is located in the north of the Central Russian Upland in Central Russia, on the banks of the Upa River, a tributary of the Oka.Tula is the 32nd largest city in Russia by population.

A primarily industrial city, Tula was settled sometime between the 12th and 14th centuries as a fortress at the border of the Principality of Ryazan. The city was seized by Ivan Bolotnikov, and withstood a four-month siege by the Tsar's army. Historically, Tula was a major centre for the manufacture of armaments. The Demidov family built the first armament factory in Russia in the city, in what would become the Tula Arms Plant, which still operates to this day.

Tula is home to the Klokovo air base, Tula State University, Tula Kremlin, The Tula State Museum of Weapons and Kazanskaya embankment of the Upa River (Video360 on YouTube). Tula has a historical association with the samovar, a metal container used to heat and boil water; the city was a major centre of Russian samovar production. Yasnaya Polyana, the former home of the writer Leo Tolstoy, is located 12 km (7+1⁄2 mi) south-west of Tula. Additionally, Tula is known for its imprinted gingerbread (pryanik), which has been made in Tula since the 17th century.

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Economy For more than four centuries Tula has been known as a centre of crafts and metalworking. Tula is a developed industrial center. Importance in the industrial structure of Tula are metallurgy, machinery and metal with a high share of the military-industrial complex and food manufacturing.

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Armaments industry • Almaz-Antey Concern: Scientific Production Association Strela (Russian: ОАО НПО «Стрела») • Splav (Russian: ОАО НПО «СПЛАВ») part of the Techmash holding of Rostec; only manufacturer of multiple rocket launchers in Russia: BM-21 Grad, BM-27 Uragan, BM-30 Smerch • KBP Instrument Design Bureau • Shcheglovsky Val plant (Russian: «Щегловский вал» завод): manufacturer of the Bumerang-BM for the T-15 Armata • Tactical Missiles Corporation: TsKBA (Russian: ОАО «ЦКБА») • Tula Arms Plant • Tulamashzavod • Tula Cartridge Plant

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Other companies • Shtamp Machine-Building Plant • Oktava • Yasnaya Polyana: a confectionery factory established in 1973 under the holding of United Confectioners (Russian: Холдинг «Объединенные кондитеры») that produces 340 different candies including "Yasnaya Polyana"

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Culture A musical instrument, the Tula accordion, is named after the city, which is a centre of manufacture for such instruments sold throughout Russia and the world. Tula is also renowned for traditional Russian pryanik, cookies made with honey and spices (see Tula pryanik). In the West, Tula is perhaps best known as the centre of samovar production: the Russian equivalent of "coals to Newcastle" is "You don't take a samovar to Tula". (The saying is falsely ascribed to the writer and playwright Anton Chekhov, whose made a satirical portrait of one of his characters saying "Taking your wife to Paris is the same as taking your own samovar to Tula".)

The most popular tourist attraction in Tula Oblast is Yasnaya Polyana, the home and burial place of the writer Leo Tolstoy. It is situated 14 km (8+1⁄2 miles) south-west of the city. It was here that Tolstoy wrote his celebrated novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. The largest public park in Tula is the P. Belousov Central Park of Culture and Recreation.

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Education Tula is home to: • Tula State University • Tula State Pedagogical University • The Tula artillery and Engineering Institute • A branch of All Russia Economic and Finance Institute • A branch of Moscow Economics and Management Institute.

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Transportation Since 1867, there has been a railway connection between Tula and Moscow. Tula is a major railway junction with trains to Moscow, Oryol, Kursk and Kaluga. The Moscow to Simferopol M2 motorway runs past the city. City transport is provided by trams, trolleybuses, buses, and marshrutkas. Tula trams, trolleybuses, and bus routes are operated by "Tulgorelectrotrans" (Tula city electrotransport company).

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Tula, Central Federal District, Russia 
<b>Tula, Central Federal District, Russia</b>
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Tula has a population of over 475,161 people. Tula also forms the centre of the wider Tula Oblast which has a population of over 1,491,855 people.

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Twin Towns, Sister Cities Tula has links with:

🇺🇸 Albany, USA 🇸🇰 Banská Bystrica, Slovak Republic 🇨🇴 Barranquilla, Colombia 🇷🇺 Kaluga, Russia 🇺🇦 Kerch, Ukraine, until 2022 🇧🇾 Mogilev, Belarus 🇩🇪 Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany
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Antipodal to Tula is: -142.381,-54.194

Locations Near: Tula 37.6187,54.1941

🇷🇺 Shchekino 37.517,54 d: 22.6  

🇷🇺 Novomoskovsk 38.217,54.083 d: 40.9  

🇷🇺 Serpukhov 37.407,54.921 d: 82  

🇷🇺 Kashira 38.167,54.833 d: 79.4  

🇷🇺 Chekhov 37.45,55.15 d: 106.8  

🇷🇺 Klimovsk 37.533,55.367 d: 130.5  

🇷🇺 Podolsk 37.545,55.432 d: 137.7  

🇷🇺 Domodedovo 37.766,55.44 d: 138.9  

🇷🇺 Obninsk 36.639,55.1 d: 118.8  

🇷🇺 Yuzhnoye Butovo 37.533,55.533 d: 149  

Antipodal to: Tula -142.381,-54.194

🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 15892.5  

🇹🇴 Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 15419.6  

🇦🇸 Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 14939.9  

🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 14849.5  

🇨🇱 Port Montt -72.933,-41.467 d: 14867.2  

🇨🇱 Puerto Montt -72.933,-41.467 d: 14867.2  

🇨🇱 Valdivia -73.233,-39.8 d: 14763.9  

🇨🇱 Coyhaique -72.067,-45.567 d: 15101.8  

🇨🇱 Temuco -72.667,-38.733 d: 14648.1  

🇨🇱 San Pedro de la Paz -73.1,-36.833 d: 14531.1  

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