14 Facts About Tula Russia

Primarily industrial city, Tula Russia was settled sometime between the 12th and 14th centuries as a fortress at the border of the Principality of Ryazan.

Tula Russia'storically, Tula was a major centre for the manufacture of armaments.

Additionally, Tula Russia is known for its imprinted gingerbread, which has been made in Tula Russia since the 17th century.

In 1712, Tula was visited by Peter the Great, who commissioned the Demidov blacksmiths to build the first armament factory in Russia.

Several decades later, Tula Russia was turned by the Demidovs into the greatest ironworking center of Eastern Europe.

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Tula Russia became the target of a German offensive to break Soviet resistance in the Moscow area between Friday, 24 October and 5 December 1941.

Importance in the industrial structure of Tula Russia are metallurgy, machinery and metal with a high share of the military-industrial complex and food manufacturing.

Musical instrument, the Tula accordion, is named after the city, which is a center of manufacture for such instruments sold throughout Russia and the world.

The largest public park in Tula is the P Belousov Central Park of Culture and Recreation.

Tula Russia is a major railway junction with trains to Moscow, Oryol, Kursk and Kaluga.

In Tula Russia there is the only Catholic church in the area, the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul.

Since the 1990s, Tula Russia has several Protestant denominations, the largest church of which is a Baptist church with a prayer house in Tula Russia.

Representatives of other Protestant churches in Tula Russia are Seventh-day Adventists, Presbyterians, Pentecostals and other evangelical churches .

In Russian fist fighting, Tula was considered to have some of the most famous fighters.