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Founded: 1937
Governor: Vasily Alexandrovich Starodubtsev (reelected April 22, 2001)
Federation Council Representatives: Anatoly Tikhonovich Vaskov (executive, term expires April 2010); Viktor Vladimirovich Sokolovsky (legislative, term expires October 2009)
Duma deputies: Alexander Vasilyevich Korzhakov (Tula district)(United Russia); Andrey Anatolyevich Samoshin (Shchekinsky district)(United Russia); Dmitry Vladimirovich Savyolev (Novomoskovsky district)(United Russia)
Population: 1,675,700 (2002 census)
Territory: 25,700 square km (9,9206 sq. miles)
Capital: Tula (population 472,300), 193 km from Moscow
Other major cities: Novomoskovsk (population 134,000)
Federal district: Central
Economic region: Central
Time zone: Moscow, GMT +3, EST +8
Geography: Tula Region is located in central European Russia. It shares a border with Moscow, Ryazan, Lipetsk, Orel, and Kaluga regions.
Urban population: 82%, Rural population: 18%
Ethnic make-up:
Economy: Tula Region has large reserves of coal, iron ore, limestone, clay, and sand. Agriculture in the region specializes in raising beef and dairy cattle, pigs, sheep, poultry, and goats and cultivating grain (mainly wheat), feed crops, potatoes, sugar beets, vegetables and fruit.
Official website: http://www.region.tula.ru
Contact Information
Governor
Vasily Alexandrovich Starodubtsev
2 Leninsky prosepkt
Tula 300600
Tel.: +7 (487) 227 84 36; 230 63 26
Fax: +7 (487) 220 63 26
Email: admin@region.tula.ru
Press service contact
Nikolay Dmitrievich Malikov
Tel.: +7 (487) 236 15 04
Fax: +7 (487) 230 61 10
Email: pressa@adm.tula.ru
Chairman of the Duma
Oleg Dmitrievich Lukichev
Tel.: +7 (487) 220 50 24
Fax: +7 (487) 236 47 66
Representative to the Government of the Russian Federation
Ismail Inusovich Baratov
2 Veskovsky pereulok
Moscow
Tel.: +7 (487) 978 14 56
Fax: +7 (487) 978 06 43
last updated December 1, 2005
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