A webcam online overlooking Ermakova Street in Tulun. We can also observe the building of the Municipal BudgetAry Educational Institution "Gymnasium" from the angle of the webcam. Tulun is a small town in the Irkutsk region, located on the Ie River, 369 kilometers from Irkutsk. The area of the settlement is 134 square kilometers.
The name of the city means a leather bag in Buryat. This name the city got because the river skirts it like a bag. The first documented mention of the settlement dates back to 1735. In the first half of the 18th century, the village of Tulunovskaya was part of the Ilim county. After the construction of the Moscow tract in the second half of the 18th century, migrants began to come to the settlement.
At the end of the 19th century, there were more than 70 retail establishments, men's and women's schools, a medical facility and a free pharmacy in Toulon. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, a railway station appeared in the city, brick and sawmills, steam mills and sewing workshops were built. Before the revolution, The Russians, Buryats, Ukrainians, Jews, Chinese, Poles, Gypsies lived in Tulun. In 1922, the settlement was granted the status of a city. In 1926, the settlement became the capital of the Tulun district. From the 1950s to the 1990s, the following plants were opened in the city: hydrolysis, auto repair, glass and electromechanical. They reconstructed and modernized vodka and oil mills, sewing and confectionery factories, printing and meat processing plants.
In 2014, Toulon was included in the list of monocities, where there are high risks of worsening the economic situation. Social and cultural facilities of the city: eight secondary schools, CRTC "Krystal", OGBOU SPO "Tulun Agricultural College," Tulun Medical School, Vocational School No.4, Tulun Teachers' College.