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| thanks in no small part to (Tula has existed since at least 1146, when it was first mentioned on record. It grew into a metals and weapons manufacturing center under Peter the Great, thanks in no small part to native son Nikita Demidov, a blacksmith born in 1656 who founded the Demidov industrial dynasty. TMT Alexander Demidov) | |||
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