Guests of Tula are recommended to explore the Tula Kremlin and the Annunciation Church, visit the Museum of Samovars, go to Kulikovo Pole, located in the vicinity of the city (you can ride there in a chaise). Want to know more about marketplaces like Tula flea markets? Those who are nostalgic for the past and want to buy something unique and vintage usually flock here.
Flea market on Pirogov street
Visitors to this flea market on weekends will be able to purchase jars and bottles of potions, medicines and perfumes, a samovar, a vase, porcelain figurines of animals and people, books and old children's publications, postcards from the 70s, Soviet-era typewriters, army overcoats, chrome officers boots, carpets, sets, cameras and Soviet lenses, coins, used equipment, gramophone records and other items that can be used by new owners as decor in the interior. Some come here to buy something cheap, and then sell it to an antique salon at times more expensive. The goal of others is to find microcircuits, spare parts and other items that may be useful to them in everyday life. And everyone else comes to this Tula flea market to plunge into the atmosphere of the past and buy things they like for the soul.
Flea Row in the Central Market
Vendors sell vinyl records, dishes, books, children's toys, old chess pieces, worn sweaters, vintage jewelry, dresses, coats, shoes and boots.
Antiques
Are Tula antique shops interesting for you? Check out the assortment of the following stores:
- “Collector” (Pirogova street, 3): the store sells coins, badges, icons, porcelain figurines and other porcelain items.
- “Numismatist” (Lenin Avenue, 35): in addition to badges, awards, bonds, Russian and foreign coins, in this antique shop you can buy ammunition and military paraphernalia (stripes, shoulder straps, buttonholes), crosses and icons, statuettes, bells, products from silver, bronze, cast iron and gold.
Good news for philatelists: specialized meetings are held in Tula on Sundays from 14:00 to 18:00 at the address: Kominterna street, 22, as well as on Mondays from 16:00 to 18:00 at Tula State University (building 9, room no. 316).
Shopping in Tula
Shopping in Tula invites shopping lovers to become owners of products that have no analogues. Therefore, before returning home from Tula, do not forget to pack in a suitcase a samovar, gingerbread (it is best to buy them at a factory as part of an excursion or in a gingerbread museum on Oktyabrskaya Street), marshmallow, Suvorov sweets, Belevskaya Filimonovskaya toy, Tula accordion, Tula a gun or a hunting knife.
