Abstract:

Arguments and searches for the purpose of materializing the toponym "Old Tula settlement" have been the subject of research by regional historians and archaeologists for two centuries. Based on the documents identified in the collections of the state archive of the Tula region, a new content of the old topic is proposed.

Keywords: Tulsky Oruzheiny Zavod, Tula, the old settlement, the river UPA and True, the village Torhovo