Tula, Russia (rus)

Tula, Russia

Tula, Russia ranks 648th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Sagamihara, Irkutsk, and Vantaa. Memorable people born in Tula, Russia include Valery Legasov, Algirdas Julien Greimas, and Valeri Polyakov. Memorable people who died in Tula, Russia include Vasily Polenov, Fyodor Sergeyev, and Nikolay Makarov. Tula, Russia has been the birth place of many writers, and actors and the death place of many painters, and politicians. Tula, Russia is located in Russia.

Tula is the largest city and the administrative center of Tula Oblast in Russia, located 193 kilometers (120 mi) south of Moscow. Tula is located in the northern Central Russian Upland on the banks of the Upa River, a tributary of the Oka. At the 2010 census, Tula had a population of 501,169, an increase from 481,216 in 2002, making it the 32nd-largest city in Russia by population. Read more on Wikipedia