Tula Arms Plant
1712 - Operational
Overview
Founded by decree of Peter the Great, supplying Russian muskets for two centuries and Soviet weapons through the 20th. Tula gunsmiths had worked the trade since 1595, and the plant still produces small arms beside a museum of its long history.
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