List of rural localities in Tula Oblast  This is a list of rural localities in Tula Oblast. Tula Oblast (, "Tulskaya oblast") is a top-level political division of European Russia (namely an oblast). Its present borders were set on 26 September 1937. The city of Tula is its administrative center. The oblast has an area of  and, , had a population of 1,553,925. Since 2 February 2016, the current governor of the oblast has been Alexey Dyumin.