</a></span>"}'/>
Tula Oblast is a region in Central Russia ; it borders Oryol Oblast to the southwest, Kaluga Oblast to the west, Moscow Oblast to the north, Ryazan Oblast to the east, and Lipetsk Oblast to the southeast.
Located beyond the reach of Moscow's cosmopolitan and capitalist forces, Tula Oblast is for visitors the real Russia . The regions major tourist attractions are decidedly "Russian": Tolstoy's estate at Yasnaya Polyana and the birthplace of modern Russia in the battlefields of Kulikovo. The capital, Tula, is also a great "Russian" stop for its beautiful samovars and kremlin, and avoids the tourist hordes that descend upon Moscow's Red Square.
Outside Tula (and even within Tula), very few people understand anything but Russian .
Trains from Moscow's Kursky Station take 3 hours to arrive in Tula.
The Tula region is famous for its pryaniki (PRYA-nee-kee) — honey gingerbread cookies best eaten with tea.
Tula is the historic capital of Russia's production of samovars and these can make excellent, if expensive, souvenirs. Be sure to have good documentation of any samovar purchases because they may face strict scrutiny at customs — many irreplaceable antique samovars have been smuggled or carelessly allowed out of the country over the past century.
This travel guide to is an and may need more content. It has a , but there is not enough present. If there are and listed, they may not all be at status or there may not be a and a "Get in" section describing all of the typical ways to get here. Please and ! |
Slavic Travels Uncategorized
Fall was always my favorite season growing up.
Something about the air turning crisper, the weather getting colder. The leaves turning yellow and brown and orange. And of course Halloween.
It’s that back-to-school weather that any person growing up in the United States loves.
So it was a special treat to be able to experience what fall was like in a different country on a different continent, in a country so unknown in the west. To experience fall in Russia.
Maybe it’s because the season is so short here, but autumn in Russia is truly special.
For starters, it only lasts one month. Fall rolls in during the second half of September and ends in the first half of October. After that winter is already in the air.
But during that brief four-week period, when the country transitions from summer to winter, the Russian countryside explodes into the most beautiful mosaic of red and orange and brown and yellow.
They call it ‘zolotaja osenj’ here, or ‘golden fall.’
It was during this time of year I decided to head outside of Moscow and visit Tula, a city located three hours south of Moscow.
The year was 2017. I was living in Moscow working for a Russian newspaper. October had just arrived.
I was living with another American at the time working in Moscow. We both didn’t want to waste a beautiful crisp sunny autumn day cooped up in Moscow in the apartment.
So we took out a map and looked at what cities nearby we could visit.
We looked North, East, West and finally South. And there she was. Tula.
We’d read a lot of good things about Tula before. How Tula was the birthplace of Leo Tolstoy. That it was where a traditional Russian desert called pryaniki, or ‘gingerbread’ originated.
How for centuries Tula supplied the Russian empire with weapons and arms. And that samovars, what Russians used to make tea and keep water hot, originated from there.
Throw in a Kremlin too, which the city had, and the choice was obvious. We should visit Tula.
And off we went. To enjoy the Russian autumn in the Russian provinces.
There are two ways to get to Tula from Moscow. You can take a suburban train, known as elektrichkas, or you can take a regular train. The regular train costs more, and will take you there directly. In this case, Tula is usually the first stop of a longer train ride headed south toward Voronezh and Ukraine.
The other option, which we opted for, was the elektrichka. Elektrichkas are suburban trains that connect surrounding cities to Moscow. The elektrichka takes longer, three hours as opposed to an hour and a half. But the benefit is it is cheap. And you get to see all the smaller cities the train stops in.
When we went, the train was packed full of Russians heading to their dachas for the weekend.
Churches all across the Soviet Union were declared to have ‘no historic value’ and torn down. Churches that were several centuries old. Comunist style administration buildings were put in their place. Monuments to Russian czars were also destroyed and replaced by statues of Lenin.
In the 1980s under Gorbachev an effort was made to restore churches that had been neglected for decades under communism. The domes were put back in place and religious services began once more.
In 2006 the building was finally returned back to the Russian Orthodox Church. Somehow, Tula’s Uspensky Sobor managed to survive 80 years of neglect under Soviet rule. Let’s hope the 21st century treats it better.
It too faced threats of disappearing forever under the communists. In the 1920s the dome was torn down but the remainder of the building was left untouched. For a while it functioned as a school, and then in 1960 the building was deemed to be part of the city’s architectural heritage and received protected status.
It’s interesting to compare Kremlins in Russia and when they were built. As far as Tula is concerned, it’s Kremlin isn’t the oldest, but neither is it the youngest.
There’s actually a lot more kremlins in Russia, depending on how you define a Kremlin. Technically many monetarists could be considered Kremlins, but are classified as religious objects, such as Sergiev Posad or Zvenigorod . Some have only been partly preserved, such as Kolomna . In any case, Tula gets the honor of being one of a handful of Russian cities with a Kremlin that’s been fully preserved.
In Moscow, the Kremlin is closed to the public. In order to visit, you have to pay. And as a result, nobody gets to enjoy the Kremlin. Tourists will pay and go inside when they visit the city. But the actual residents of Moscow, the people that live in the city, never get to enjoy it. It feels separated from the city, not like an integral part of it.
It wasn’t always like this. Up until the Bolshevik revolution in 1917, Moscow’s Kremlin was open to the public and anybody could walk in and out of it. It functioned just like the Kremlins in Tula, Nizhny Novgorod, Veliky Novgorod and so forth.
Moscow should learn from these cities and open their own Kremlin up to the public. The city would become much more attractive.
One problem in Tula were the wide streets that favored cars. Tula’s main street in the city that went through the center of the city had three lanes for cars going in each direction.
It was no wonder, therefore that cars drove very fast. In fact, I was quite surprised at just how loud Tula was for a city of only half a million people. It felt like on every street there was the constant noise of cars rushing by.
What should Tula do instead? Streets like these should be reduced in size and preference given to pedestrians and cyclists. Two lanes in the middle should go toward a tram line, the other two narrowed in size to make way for a bike lane going in both directions.
Tula in fact, had tram lines operating on its main streets up until WWII, before the government decided to get rid of them.
Giving the streets back to the people would make the city a more comfortable place to live.
What I love most about these buildings is how colorful they are. They are all painted in different colors.
Unfortunately many of them were in bad shape. Traditional wooden buildings in Russia are in danger of disappearing forever. All across the country these buildings are being torn down as people move to cities and forget about the buildings where their grandparents grew up and came from. I wrote an entire separate post about the topic here about a street in Tula that was filled with these wooden buildings.
This is one of the oldest cemeteries in the city. Built in 1772, it contained some of the oldest graveyards and tombs in the city from over 100 years ago.
Tula was the city where the majority of Russian samovars were produced in the 19th century. You could find them all over Europe and chance are if you live in an old house and look in the attic, you will find a samovar that was made in the city of Tula.
Tula was an amazing city to visit in the fall. Russia can have extreme weather. Most of the year is covered in snow, but you have brief glimpses of fall, spring and summer that can be enjoyed.
These photos capture what fall in Russia is like. We happened to spend them in Tula, but really, any Russian city will look this beautiful in the fall.
When it comes t othe city of Tula itself, it is a great day trip outside of Moscow. The city is beaming with history. The armaments factory, the Kremlin, the wooden buildings in the center of the city, the beautiful cemetery atop the hill and the delicious Russian pryaniki all combine to make this worth the trek outside of Moscow.
Be sure to add it to your itinerary when you visit Russia and Moscow.
The capital city of Tula oblast: Tula .
Tula Oblast is a federal subject of Russia, part of the Central Federal District. Tula is the capital city of the region.
The population of Tula Oblast is about 1,433,000 (2022), the area - 25,679 sq. km.
Tula oblast coat of arms.
Tula oblast latest news and posts from our blog:.
30 August, 2021 / Tula - the view from above .
1 June, 2020 / Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Yepifan .
19 May, 2020 / Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh on the Kulikovo Field .
15 June, 2018 / Awesome Posters for the World Cup in Russia .
31 January, 2018 / Museum of Weapons in Tula .
More posts..
Ancient people began to settle in the territory of today’s Tula Oblast at the end of the Paleolithic (about 12 thousand years ago). In the early Iron Age (about 3 thousand year ago), the tribes of the Verkhneoksk archaeological culture appeared (the Balts).
In the 8th century, the Slavic tribe of Vyatichi came to this region in place of the Balts. They were engaged in cattle breeding, farming, crafts. At first, the Vyatichi paid tributes to the Khazars, and then they became part of the Old Russian state. In 907, they took part in the campaign of Prince Oleg against Tsargrad (Constantinople).
In the 12th century, the town of Dedoslavl (presumably, the present village of Dedilovo in Kireevsky district) appeared - a fortified craft and trade center, a place of gathering of the elders of the Vyatichi. By the 13th century, the smoothing of tribal features led to the disappearance of the tribal name Vyatich.
Having fallen into the sphere of influence of Kievan Rus, the territory of the Tula region for a long time remained a wild pagan land. After the collapse of Kievan Rus, this land became part of the Chernigov princedom. In the 13th century, the Mongol invasion swept through the territory of the region.
More historical facts…
In 1380, in the southeastern part of the present Tula region, at the confluence of the rivers of Nepryadva and Don, the Kulikovo battle took place, which initiated the liberation of the Russian lands from the Golden Horde yoke.
In 1503, the Tula lands became part of the Moscow Grand Duchy. In the beginning of the 16th century, the fortress of Tula was founded. In the 16th-17th centuries, it was an important fortified town located on the southern outskirts of the Moscow state.
The industrial development of the region began in the 17th century. In 1696, the Tula blacksmith Nikita Demidov built the first blast furnaces and workshops at the mouth of the Tulitsa River, which were the beginning of the development of blacksmithing in Tula.
The town became one of the centers of Russian metallurgy and metalworking. In 1712, according to the decree of Peter the Great, the State Arms Factory was established in Tula, which produced weapons for the Russian army. In 1719, the Tula region was formed. In 1777, it became a gubernia (province). At the same time, the production of samovars, gingerbread, accordions began to develop in Tula.
In 1855, the Malevskaya mine (to the south of Bogoroditsk) was put into operation, regular coal mining began in the Moscow region basin, the oldest coal mining region of Russia discovered in 1722. The development of industry in the province was facilitated by the construction of the railways: “Moscow-Kursk” in 1864-1868 and “Syzran-Vyazma” in 1870-1874.
In 1929, the Tula Governorate was abolished, its territory became part of the Central Industrial Region. In September 1937, it once again became a separate region. During the Second World War, Tula defensive and offensive operations were carried out on the territory of the Tula region.
For the courage and steadfastness shown by the defenders of Tula in the defense of the city, which played an important role in stopping the Wehrmacht offensive and subsequent defeating of enemy troops near Moscow, Tula was awarded the honorary title Hero City.
In the post-war years, the machine-building, chemical, metallurgical, and coal industries were further developed in the Tula region, research institutes and design bureaus were established.
Small river in Tula Oblast
Author: Volodin Yura
Chamomile field in the Tula region
Author: Lev Trusov
Tula Oblast landscape
Author: Maks Kuzmin
Tula Oblast is located in the center of the East European (Russian) plain, within the zone of deciduous forests and forest-steppe. The length of the territory of the region from north to south is 200 km, from west to east - 190 km.
The climate is moderately continental, characterized by moderately cold winters with frequent thaws and warm summers. The average temperature in January is minus 10 degrees Celsius, in July - plus 20 degrees Celsius.
Tula Oblast was badly damaged as a result of radioactive fallout after the Chernobyl disaster, tens of thousands of hectares of land were contaminated and became unusable for agriculture. Forests occupy about 13% of the territory. Most of the rivers (about 80%) belong to the Oka basin, the largest and only navigable river in the region, a small part - to the Don basin.
The largest cities and towns of Tula Oblast are Tula (461,200), Novomoskovsk (120,800), Donskoy (60,700), Aleksin (56,100), Shchekino (55,400), Uzlovaya (48,400), Efremov (33,500), Bogoroditsk (30,000).
Today, Tula Oblast is one of the most demographically disadvantaged regions in Russia because of the prolonged outflow of the young population due to the proximity of the Moscow agglomeration, the depressed state of industry and the economy of the region in general, especially in small and medium-sized towns and associated social unhappiness.
The distance from the center of Tula to the center of Moscow is about 185 kilometers. The region has a relatively well developed transport network.
About 50% of ore deposits of the Moscow region coal basin, estimated at 1.5 billion tons, are concentrated in the Tula region. In the south-west, there are large deposits of peat. The region also has significant deposits of iron ore, strontium ores, various building materials including limestone, clay, sand, gypsum.
The main industries are chemical, mechanical engineering, food, ferrous metallurgy, electric power. Agricultural land occupies more than 60% of the total area of the region (barley, wheat, fodder crops, sugar beet).
The rich history of Tula Oblast is reflected in its historical monuments and museums. These are the sites of ancient settlements, remnants of fortifications, architecture of old Russian towns, churches, estates, garden and park complexes.
The main attractions of the Tula region include:
Pictures of the tula region.
Tula Oblast scenery
Author: Andrey Pelenitsyn
Abandoned church in the Tula region
Author: Kuzovkov N.
Orthodox church in Tula Oblast
Author: Sergey Sergeev
Highway in Tula Oblast
Author: Dmitry Grebenkov
Forest road in the Tula region
Author: Oksana Sidorenko
Winter in Tula Oblast
Author: Sergey Baskakov
Rating: 2.9 /5 (184 votes cast)
Breadcrumbs Section. Click here to navigate to respective pages.
Tula Oblast
DOI link for Tula Oblast
Click here to navigate to parent product.
Tula Oblast is situated in the northern section of the Central Russian Highlands. It is bordered by the Oblasts of Ryazan to the east, Lipetsk to the south-east, Oryol to the south-west, Kaluga to the north-west, and Moscow to the north. The city of Tula was founded in the 12th century. The Imperial Small Arms Factory was constructed in the city in 1712. Tula Oblast was founded on 26 September 1937. On 30 March 2005 the Regional Duma voted in favour of President Vladimir Putin’s nominee, Vyacheslav Dudka, as Governor. Agriculture, which employed 5.4% of the workforce and contributed 8.0% of GRP in 2020, consists primarily of the production of grain, potatoes, fruit and vegetables, and sugar beet, as well as animal husbandry. The main industries are mechanical engineering, metal working, chemicals and petrochemicals, ferrous metallurgy, food processing, the production of brown coal, the generation of electricity, and the production of fabrics.
Connect with us
Registered in England & Wales No. 3099067 5 Howick Place | London | SW1P 1WG © 2024 Informa UK Limited
COMMENTS
Create different sections for your homework planner. Mark these sections using sheets of colored paper, stick-on dividers or other types of dividers to make it easier for you to locate the different sections. Design the front cover of your planner. Here, you can express yourself using your own ideas and creativity.
Homework Planner Template. Our free homework planner printable will keep you organized and on top of your homework assignments. If you prefer a digital version, you can open the PDF homework trackers on an iPad and write on them with a note-taking app and stylus (see digital planner ). Select any homework planner template from the selection below.
Method 2: Use a standard notebook. The first step is to choose a planner notebook based on what you need and the number of assignments and homework you might receive for each class, from the various homework planners available. The next step is to decorate your notebook, a journal, or a composition book.
Addition Worksheets Subtraction Worksheets Regrouping - Addition and Subtraction Fraction Worksheets Multiplication Worksheets Times Table Worksheets Brain Teaser Worksheets Picture Analogies Cut and Paste Worksheets Pattern Worksheets Dot to Dot worksheets Preschool and Kindergarten - Mazes Size Comparison Worksheets. Top Worksheets New ...
New from White Rose Maths and Oxford University Press, Maths Practice Journals are your maths homework solution for Years 1 to 9. Created by expert White Rose authors, each workbook extends and builds maths skills, develops learners' language, and encourages a home-school link. Released in September 2023, the full colour, write-in practice ...
Organize your weekly lesson plans with these printable "Super Teacher Lesson Planner" pages. Just punch holes in the side, stick them in a binder, and you'll have a great lesson plan book. View PDF. Printable Gradebook FREE. The "Super Teacher Grade Book" is a printable grading grid to help you keep track of student progress.
K5 Learning offers free worksheets, flashcards and inexpensive workbooks for kids in kindergarten to grade 5. Become a member to access additional content and skip ads. 4th grade math worksheets: Multiplication, division, rounding, fractions, decimals , telling time, counting money, order of operations, factoring, roman numerals, geometry ...
We have over 1 million pages of free worksheets plus lots of hands-on, educational kids activites, printable games, and more to make learning FUN! You will find educational printables for all ages from toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th grade, junior high, and more ...
Free Printables and Worksheets. Time is short and valuable - and free printables help you make the most of it! Discover hundreds of free printables for every area of homeschooling including: organization printables, record-keeping printables, homeschooling printables, kindergarten printables, preschool printables, and even high school printables.
Our worksheet generator helps you make puzzles and printables that are educational, personal, and fun! Perfect for classrooms, these make-your-own word searches, crosswords, scrambles, and matching lists are an excellent tool for reviewing key subjects and skills. Each printable created through our reading and math worksheet generator is fully ...
Interactive Worksheets For all Languages and Subjects. LiveWorksheets allows you to transform your traditional printable worksheets and classwork (doc, pdf, jpgs) and turn them into interactive online exercises with automatic grading, making them... live! An amazing tool for students, teachers, and schools! Create Free Account Now.
But a planner can help! This 100 page planner includes your choice of 10 ten different planner covers, activity sheets, notes pages, class schedules, homework planner, reading lists, Zoom meeting planner stickers, and reminder stickers for tests, quizzes, projects and assignments. Use promo code SCHOOLPLANNER at checkout to get it for free!
Thousands of Flash Cards Just select Flash Cards on any worksheet to generate custom flash cards. Easy Scoring Score papers quickly with CommonCoreSheets' easy score reader. Quick Grading Grade assignments in seconds with CommonCoreSheets' answer column. Create Quizzes Create-a-Sheet lets you create professional looking worksheets with no hassle.
These free printable homeschool worksheets cover many different topics in all subjects. There are worksheets for preschoolers up to high school. Homeschool Worksheets by Subject. Free Science Worksheets. On the Science Worksheets Page, you will find space, nature, human anatomy, as well as some general science free worksheets for your homeschool.
These seasonal and holiday worksheets contain puzzles, crafts, holiday math, reading passages, and more. Early Literacy. Teach students all about the basics of reading and writing with our early literacy worksheets. Phonics. Teach students consonants, diagraphs, two-letter blends, and more with these phonics worksheets. Science.
Explore our website for Preschool or Kindergarten Homeschool Worksheets, Flashcards and other resources for English, Math, Logical Reasoning, Shapes, Colors, Coloring Pages and many more. Preschool is a great time to introduce your child to flashcards and worksheets; And prepare him/her for formal school.
Here are a bunch of free reading comprehension worksheets. These will help students master reading skills. You can print, edit, or complete these worksheets online. Try the nonfiction or short story reading worksheets to cover general reading skills. Or focus on specific reading skills like making predictions .
Many students have difficulty answering inferential questions. This worksheet has ten more practice problems to help students develop this critical reading skill. Read the passages, answer the inference questions, and support answers with text. The Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 3-7.
olympics. Explore more than 961 "Homework Sheets" resources for teachers, parents and pupils as well as related resources on "Homework". Check out our interactive series of lesson plans, worksheets, PowerPoints and assessment tools today! All teacher-made, aligned with the Australian Curriculum.
Map of Tula Oblast. 54.2 37.616667. 1 Tula — the capital has long been a military bulwark of the Muscovy region: the brick walls of its kremlin withstood successive Tatar attacks in the Middle Ages, and its fortifications held off a major Nazi assault in World War II, earning the Soviet title "Hero City". 53.8 36.133333.
Tula is mostly a flat city, but there is a slight hill at the top of which the Всехсвятский кафедральный собор (Vsehsvyatski kafederalni sobor) is located. This is one of the oldest cemeteries in the city. Built in 1772, it contained some of the oldest graveyards and tombs in the city from over 100 years ago.
Tula Oblast is located in the center of the East European (Russian) plain, within the zone of deciduous forests and forest-steppe. The length of the territory of the region from north to south is 200 km, from west to east - 190 km. The climate is moderately continental, characterized by moderately cold winters with frequent thaws and warm summers.
Book The Territories of the Russian Federation 2023. Click here to navigate to parent product. Edition 24th Edition. First Published 2023. Imprint Routledge. Pages 2. eBook ISBN 9781003384038. Share. ABSTRACT . Tula Oblast is situated in the northern section of the Central Russian Highlands. It is bordered by the Oblasts of Ryazan to the east ...