It has been a VERY long time since I had a chance to update this blog. I look at some of my earlier entries and I see that Tula has changed. It is becoming more groomed, more modern. Many of the old wooden houses I’ve been eulogizing here will soon be gone forever – streets of new modern high-rises will take their place instead. I am not sure if “gentrification” is the correct term here but you can see improvements everywhere – old apartment buildings are being repaired throughout the city, coffee houses and restaurants are popping up on every corner, parks look well-groomed, inner yards of apartment buildings receive colorful playgrounds.
At the same time the city’s image is being re-conceptualized. It includes two, seemingly opposite, components. First, it continues to be built within the frames of Tula’s official symbolism: the city as the country’s “arsenal and shield”. At the…
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Beautiful town.
Yes, it is. Russia is getting a face-lift. Since snubbing it’s nose at the west and it’s banking system I suspect it has more monies to do these kinds of works.