8.1.3.1 8.3.8.1 Read the title of the text. In pairs, discuss why you love weekends.
A: I love weekends because I meet my friends and we go out together.
B: Me too. We usually go window-shopping or play basketball.​

Tula , a city in the russian federation, the center of tula oblast . the population of 499,000 people. junction of railway lines and roads. airport . known since 1146.  hero city in 1976 . main industries : mechanical engineering and metal working.  production of defense products, iron and steel, food-processing industry, production of building materials, musical instruments.tula is mentioned for the first time in the nikon chronicle in 1146 , when it was a part of the ryazan principality. in the early 16th century. became part of the duchy of moscow , and in the 16-17 centuries . was the center of large defense line . in 1552, tula was besieged forces of crimean khan devlet giray. from the 16th century . are actively developing iron industry and arms production . the first ironworks founded here in 1632 by a dutch merchant a. vinius . in 1712, by order of peter i in tula was the first in the russian state arms factory that supplied weapons russian army. in the late 19th century. here was created trilinear mosin rifle . from the 18th century . thule develops in production of precision measuring instruments and factory , samovars , art metal objects . during the civil war - the base of the red army . in the 1929-1937 years. tula was a member of the moscow region, from 1937 - the center of the tula region. economy tula keeps focus on weapons production . educational and cultural institutions : tula state pedagogical university university . ln tolstoy artillery engineering institute , a branch of the all-russian correspondence financial and economic institute , a branch of the moscow state university of commerce . drama theatre . gorky , puppet theatre for young people . museums: weapons , founded in 1724 , in which exposures are samples of weapons and firearms 18-20 centuries . tula manufacture; regional art museum , the house -museum of vv veresaeva . at 14 km from tula is a house- museum of leo tolstoy "yasnaya polyana" .  the city is the oldest in russia and zooekzotarium velodrome with a unique collection of amphibians, reptiles and fish from all over the world. the historic center of the city - tula kremlin , built in the years 1507-1520 . whose territory remained assumption cathedral . in the cathedral of the epiphany , located on the territory of the kremlin , now housed the museum of weapons. in the center of tula are monuments of temple architecture of 17-19 centuries . : church of the annunciation , the church of st. nicholas zaretsky , the church of the ascension , peter and paul church .  among other architectural structures - a former nobility assembly with pillared hall , houses batashova , dobrynin, goltyakova , lalin .