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Новости Тула и Область

@tula_smi

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64,845subscribers

-424 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 31,623–100,000.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1001628801617
TypeChannel
Username@tula_smi
DescriptionГлавный телеграм-канал Тулы и Тульской Области! Пригласить друзей: https://t.me/+X0Ng954Pq4xhYjQy Поделиться новостью: @Andry_SMI Купить рекламу: @ADV_SMI Купить через биржку: https://telega.in/c/tula_smi https://clck.ru/3FS3Ht 18+
CreatedBetween 1 December 2021 and 30 April 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated.
First recorded7 August 2026
Last confirmed live19 September 2026
Measurements held33
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 19 September 2026
On Telegramt.me/tula_smi

Topic

Local community — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 9 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 88% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.

Growth

64,84565,34365,0947 August 2026 — 65,269 subscribers7 August 2026 — 65,268 subscribers8 August 2026 — 65,343 subscribers9 August 2026 — 65,328 subscribers10 August 2026 — 65,312 subscribers11 August 2026 — 65,303 subscribers12 August 2026 — 65,287 subscribers13 August 2026 — 65,272 subscribers14 August 2026 — 65,250 subscribers16 August 2026 — 65,237 subscribers17 August 2026 — 65,221 subscribers18 August 2026 — 65,210 subscribers19 August 2026 — 65,219 subscribers20 August 2026 — 65,213 subscribers21 August 2026 — 65,200 subscribers23 August 2026 — 65,170 subscribers25 August 2026 — 65,179 subscribers26 August 2026 — 65,164 subscribers27 August 2026 — 65,157 subscribers28 August 2026 — 65,140 subscribers29 August 2026 — 65,112 subscribers30 August 2026 — 65,125 subscribers31 August 2026 — 65,115 subscribers1 September 2026 — 65,107 subscribers2 September 2026 — 65,081 subscribers3 September 2026 — 65,069 subscribers5 September 2026 — 65,044 subscribers8 September 2026 — 64,997 subscribers11 September 2026 — 64,977 subscribers13 September 2026 — 64,964 subscribers14 September 2026 — 64,917 subscribers16 September 2026 — 64,864 subscribers19 September 2026 — 64,845 subscribers7 August 202619 September 2026
33 measurements spanning 43 days, net -424. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 64,770–65,418 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded, most recent 20 of 33
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
19 Sept 2026, 11:5664,845-19
16 Sept 2026, 21:1764,864-53
14 Sept 2026, 21:3764,917-47
13 Sept 2026, 04:5664,964-13
11 Sept 2026, 06:3664,977-20
8 Sept 2026, 09:0264,997-47
5 Sept 2026, 05:2165,044-25
3 Sept 2026, 12:3765,069-12
2 Sept 2026, 05:2265,081-26
1 Sept 2026, 03:1465,107-8
31 Aug 2026, 03:4465,115-10
30 Aug 2026, 02:5565,125+13
29 Aug 2026, 01:0565,112-28
28 Aug 2026, 02:0865,140-17
27 Aug 2026, 00:3665,157-7
26 Aug 2026, 03:2365,164-15
25 Aug 2026, 01:1765,179+9
23 Aug 2026, 11:3365,170-30
21 Aug 2026, 21:5665,200-13
20 Aug 2026, 15:4265,213first reading

Engagement

986 posts held, back to 6 August 2026the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 94 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

ERR · 30 days
3.70%
avg views ÷ 64,845 subscribers
Avg views / post
2,400
655 posts measured
Reaction rate
0.612%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
655
of 986 held

ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.

ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views — note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate. It is computed over the 630 of 655 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.

What these figures were computed from
WindowRolling 30 days · latest post in window 21 September 2026
Posts held986 (6 August 202621 September 2026)
Views total1,573,498
Reactions total9,330
Forwards / commentsnot exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken22 Sept 2026, 01:53 UTC

Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.

Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.

Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.

What this channel posts

Photos
8,890
Videos
2,830
Links
16,000

Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 22 September 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.

Video runtime
20m 00s
Average length
28s

Measured directly from 43 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no mark.

Reaction mix

15,009 reactions across 938 posts, in 37 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 19.4% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
🙏2,90719.4%
👍2,78518.6%
2,56717.1%
🤡1,76011.7%
😱9346.22%
🔥8175.44%
👎5803.86%
🤬5483.65%
👌3622.41%
🤣2931.95%
😁2641.76%
💯1941.29%
😢1641.09%
🕊1350.899%
🤔1270.846%
👏1220.813%
🤯1120.746%
😭930.62%
🎉520.346%
🥴330.22%
17 further kinds1601.07%

No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.

Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.

Coverage. Reactions were read on 953 of the 986 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 15,009 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.

Measured over the 986 most recent posts we hold, published 6 August 2026 to 21 September 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.

Telegram Stars

Stars received
4
across the posts below
Posts paid on
4
of 986 we hold a reading for · 0.4%
Most on one post
1
single highest reading

A paid reaction is a reader spending Telegram Stars — bought with money — on a post by @tula_smi. Telegram publishes the count on the public post preview alongside ordinary reactions, and this register reads it there. It is the only figure on this site that measures money moving rather than attention.

Stars are not reactions, and the two are never added. They are rendered in the same strip on Telegram and counted in the same shape, but one is a tap and the other is a purchase. The reaction totals and the engagement rate elsewhere on this page exclude every figure in this section, and no rate here is computed against a reaction count.

This is not revenue, and we publish no currency figure. What a Star costs a reader and what it pays a channel are different numbers, Telegram takes a share we cannot observe, and the terms have changed. Converting a Star count into money would be an estimate dressed as a measurement, so the count is where we stop.

Counted over the 986 most recent posts we hold for this entry, published 6 August 2026 to 21 September 2026. Star counts above 1,000 reach us in Telegram’s short form and carry the same three-significant-figure rounding as everything else on this page.

Advertising

Ad load
2.33%
23 of 986 posts carry an ad marker
Regulatory tokens
23
posts carrying an erid · 23 distinct tokens
Median views · ads
2,460
over 23 measured posts
Median views · rest
2,620
over 963 measured posts

An ad marker, not a judgement about a post. A post is counted here because it carries one of two explicit markings: an erid token, which Russian law has required on paid placements since 2022 and which is issued against a specific advertising contract, or a #реклама / #ad hashtag in the body, which is the channel declaring it itself. The first is documentary; the second is a self-declaration and is weaker. No classifier reads the text and decides — nothing on this site guesses that a post is an advertisement.

This is a floor, and it can only ever be a floor. A channel that runs paid placements without marking them produces no marker for us to count, and an unmarked ad is indistinguishable from an ordinary post on the public surface. The ad load above therefore means “the share of posts that declared themselves”, never “the share of posts that were paid for”. A low figure is not evidence of a channel that runs few ads.

Both figures are medians, and no ratio between them is published. Each is a view reading that actually occurred on a post, picked by percentile_disc rather than averaged, so one viral post cannot move it and no interpolated value is invented between two readings. They are printed side by side with the count behind each rather than as a ratio: an ad and an ordinary post are not otherwise matched — for topic, for length, for hour of day — so the gap between them is a description of two groups and not the effect of one being an ad.

Advertising tokens recorded on this entry
eridPostsFirst seenLast seen
2SDnjdmPsiB13 September 20263 September 2026
2W5zFFueWEu114 August 202614 August 2026
2W5zFFwUeLh113 August 202613 August 2026
2W5zFG6Maob19 September 20269 September 2026
2W5zFGAkrx1110 September 202610 September 2026
2W5zFGW6jEq111 September 202611 September 2026
2W5zFGd7A6D112 September 202612 September 2026
2W5zFGdeiHw120 August 202620 August 2026
2W5zFGgYeYZ18 August 20268 August 2026
2W5zFGgbhZ3114 September 202614 September 2026
2W5zFGnMuFw15 September 20265 September 2026
2W5zFGq88Gh19 September 20269 September 2026

A token repeated across several posts is one advertising contract placed more than once, which is what the identifier is for. The strings are reproduced exactly as they appeared in the post or in its click-through URL and are not validated against any registry — we record the marker a channel published, and whether it resolves to a real contract is a question for the register that issued it. 11 further tokens are held for this entry and not listed here.

Measured over the 986 most recent posts we hold, published 6 August 2026 to 21 September 2026. Views are the latest single reading held for each post, and any reading at or above 1,000 is rounded by Telegram to three significant figures.

Recent posts

21 Sept 2026, 21:33 UTC439 views5 reactionsread 22 September 2026

🎮 Игры, еда и качалка: учёные назвали идеальное комбо для здоровья мозга Исследователи выяснили, что видеоигры в сочетании с правильным питанием и спортом творят чудеса с нашей головой и помогают долгие годы сохранять когнитивные функции. У людей, которые играют в консоль или ПК хотя бы 5 часов в неделю, показатели внимания, памяти и скорости реакции в среднем значительно выше. Главное условие — соблюдать баланс. С

5

21 Sept 2026, 21:03 UTC646 views15 reactionsread 22 September 2026

🛌Шок-новости для любителей поспать: сон дольше восьми часов ускоряет старение Учёные официально разрушили миф о пользе долгого сна. Масштабное исследование, в котором приняли участие более 500 тысяч человек, показало неожиданные результаты: быстрее всего человеческий организм стареет у тех, кто спит меньше шести или больше восьми часов. Чтобы прийти к такому выводу, специалисты оценивали биологический возраст участ

😱6🔥4👍31🤡1

21 Sept 2026, 19:31 UTC≈1,120 views11 reactionsread 22 September 2026

💸На 1,4 млрд рублей оформили льготную ипотеку жители Тульской области за август За месяц в регионе выдали 256 жилищных кредитов с господдержкой. Это на 35% больше, чем в июле, а общая сумма выросла на 29%. По обоим показателям Тульская область опередила три соседних региона: — Калужская область — 203 кредита на 1,12 млрд рублей; — Рязанская — 199 на 1,01 млрд; — Орловская — 133 на 740 млн. А для вас покупка своего

😢71👍1🔥1😱1

21 Sept 2026, 18:41 UTC≈1,640 views32 reactionsread 22 September 2026

🔴 Налог на восстановление объектов после атак БПЛА вводить не будут, заявили в Минфине В Минфине объяснили, что готовят поправки для бизнеса — крупным предприятиям разрешат учитывать расходы на РЭБ, ПВО и ремонт повреждённых объектов при расчёте налога на прибыль. Изменения коснутся только юрлиц и не затронут обычных граждан. 📲Читайте нас в МАКС ☺️Подписаться | Прислать новость

🤡227👎2🙏1

21 Sept 2026, 17:24 UTC≈2,120 views49 reactionsread 22 September 2026
Photo

💸 Вода и водоотведение подорожают с 1 октября в Туле Новые тарифы «Тулагорводоканала» утвердил областной комитет по тарифам. Они будут действовать до конца 2026 года. Для жителей стоимость кубометра изменится так: — холодная вода — с 45,32 до 50,14 рубля; — водоотведение — с 23,46 до 24,85 рубля. Если семья расходует за месяц 10 кубометров воды и столько же приходится на водоотведение, плата за эти две услуги выра

🤬31👍7🤔62🤡1🤣1🤯1

21 Sept 2026, 17:08 UTC≈1,990 views12 reactionsread 22 September 2026

🌧 Дожди и похолодание сменят летнее тепло в Туле на этой неделе По прогнозу центра «Фобос», жителей области ждёт переменчивая погода — ливни будут чередоваться с прояснениями. Уже во вторник облаков станет больше, а температура начнёт снижаться. К концу недели в Туле ожидается +15…+18 градусов. Зонт лучше держать под рукой. 📲Читайте нас в МАКС ☺️Подписаться | Прислать новость

👌7👍21👎1🔥1

21 Sept 2026, 15:48 UTC≈2,340 views18 reactionsread 22 September 2026

✅ Опасность атаки БПЛА отменили в Тульской области Угроза миновала, сообщил губернатор Дмитрий Миляев. 📲Читайте нас в МАКС ☺️Подписаться | Прислать новость

7🙏6🤡3👌1👎1

21 Sept 2026, 15:01 UTC≈2,460 views20 reactionsread 22 September 2026

🔴 Опасность атаки БПЛА вновь объявили в Тульской области спустя час после отбоя Новое предупреждение поступило в 17:58. Предыдущую угрозу отменили в 16:51 — спокойный промежуток продлился 1 час 7 минут. 📲Читайте нас в МАКС ☺️Подписаться | Прислать новость

🙏11😱4🤡2🤯2🎉1

21 Sept 2026, 14:56 UTC≈2,440 views52 reactionsread 22 September 2026
Photo

📊 Расходы на защиту от дронов могут переложить на россиян через тарифы Минфин готовит поправки в налоговое законодательство, которые позволят учитывать расходы на защиту и восстановление объектов после атак БПЛА. Об этом заявил замминистра финансов Алексей Сазанов — изменения планируют внести уже этой осенью. Ранее обсуждалась возможность закладывать затраты на защиту энергообъектов и восстановление подстанций в т

🤬40😱43🔥2🤡2🤩1

21 Sept 2026, 13:56 UTC≈2,250 views16 reactionsread 22 September 2026

🔴 Отбой опасности атаки БПЛА объявили в Тульской области Угроза миновала, сообщил губернатор Дмитрий Миляев. Режим опасности БПЛА действовал в регионе более 65 часов, и за это время было уничтожено больше 150 украинских дронов. 📲Читайте нас в МАКС ☺️Подписаться | Прислать новость

👌6🙏5😱2👎1🕊1😁1

21 Sept 2026, 13:39 UTC≈2,340 views10 reactionsread 22 September 2026
Photo

👀 Украшения — себе, бижутерию — на возврат: женщину обвиняют в обмане интернет-магазина на 360 тысяч рублей в Богородицке По версии следствия, 37-летняя женщина заказывала дорогую технику и ювелирные изделия с оплатой при получении. Но вместо денег магазин получал пустые коробки и дешёвые подмены, сообщает прокуратура Тульской области. Зная, что в пункте выдачи нет камер, покупательница забирала содержимое упаковок

👍4🤬31👌1😱1

Showing the 12 most recent of 986 posts we hold for @tula_smi. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.

Posts edited after publishing

@tula_smi edited 1 post after it first published — the same permalink now carries different wording than the one this register originally read, caught because our own crawl held a copy of the earlier text.

An edit is not deception. Typo fixes, price updates and corrections look exactly like this too — this register can tell you the wording changed and when, not why. How this is measured.

First edit seen
30 August 2026
Most recent edit
30 August 2026

Mentions

A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.

Channels Telegram recommends alongside this one

Telegram’s own answer, not this register’s. When this register asks Telegram’s API what is similar to this channel, this is the list it returns, in the exact order Telegram returns it — never re-sorted by subscribers or by anything else this register measures. The relationship, and the order, are Telegram’s; we record them and date them, and make no claim of our own about which of these channels actually resemble this one.

Тула. Происшествия
@tula_chp_71 · 193,219
#1
Тула Жесть
@tulazest · 165,513
#2
Тула с огоньком
@tulatop · 39,244
#3
Подслушано в Туле
@pdstula · 58,667
#4
ЧП Тула
@chp_tula · 36,994
#5
Myslo
@mysloru · 38,317
#6
Тула| Куда сходить
@kudavtule · 14,538
#7
Тула за рулём
@autolove71 · 13,439
#8
ЧП Тульская область
@Incidents71 · 33,794
#9
Тула №1
@tulanumber1 · 4,754
#10
Тула-ла
@tula_la · 7,863
#11
Тула71
@T71_ru · 9,025
#12
Тула №1. Пролетарский район
@tulaproletarskii · 5,570
#13
ЧП Новомосковск 🇷🇺
@chpnmsk · 50,444
#14
Новомосковск live | Новости города
@nmsk_live · 5,648
#15
Тульский Опорный (ТулГУ)
@tulauniversity · 8,215
#16
Тульские новости
@newstula · 19,315
#17
Тульский Спорт
@minsport71 · 6,340
#18
Дмитрий Миляев
@dmilyaev · 60,673
#19
Вести-Тула
@vestitula · 9,601
#20
Тульская область
@tularegion71 · 27,713
#21
Автохамы и ДТП | Тула
@dtp4p · 7,545
#22
Тульская Пресса
@tulpressa · 7,691
#23
Движение Первых | Тульская область
@rddm71 · 2,450
#24
Только новости
@tn_tula · 7,371
#25
Афиша Тулы
@afishamyslo · 8,816
#26
ЧП Донской
@chp_donskoy · 6,144
#27
ГАЗОН | в СПЕКТРе молодёжных событий
@gazon_tula · 944
#28
о/л Орлёнок
@orlenok_tula · 693
#29
Тула. Транспорт
@tula_transport · 2,498
#30
Тула №1. Заречье
@zartula · 1,681
#31
МЧС Тульской области
@mchs71tula · 2,564
#32
т а к и ж и в ё м
@memesfortula · 26,503
#33
АКМ Тульская область | ВХЛ
@akm_vhl · 7,036
#34
ПФК "Арсенал" Тула
@pfcarsenaltula · 12,463
#35
МХК «Академия Михайлова»
@akm_mhl · 4,466
#36
anete_pon? 🫶🏻 ྀིྀ
@ankaaaaaaa999 · 258
#37
Модный город | ex-Первомайка
@modny_gorod · 6,466
#38
KAND
@limbup · 1,132
#39
Отдых-71 | Тула
@otdyh71 · 982
#40
Old Tula
@old_tula · 4,065
#41
Университет Льва Толстого
@tula_pedagogical · 3,720
#42
BALAGAN
@balagantula · 391
#43
Тула. ЭкстремиZм
@extremism_71 · 3,236
#44
Ребячка | Первые | Панчлайн
@rr_tula · 897
#45
пресс-служба админа ткж
@odmenzemmm · 2,312
#46
vikxz ᥫ᭡
@vikxzmiss · 517 (as read 21 August 2026)
#47

Read from Telegram’s recommendation API, most recently 21 August 2026. Telegram holds a list like this for a small and growing share of the register — how this is measured, and why most channel pages show nothing here.

Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels

The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.

Тула Жесть
@tulazest · 165,513
Telegram ranks this channel #6 of 39 here — alongside 38 others — read 19 August 2026
Тула. Происшествия
@tula_chp_71 · 193,219
Telegram ranks this channel #7 of 48 here — alongside 47 others — read 19 August 2026
Подслушано в Туле
@pdstula · 58,667
Telegram ranks this channel #8 of 41 here — alongside 40 others — read 22 August 2026
Тула с огоньком
@tulatop · 39,244
Telegram ranks this channel #9 of 66 here — alongside 65 others — read 30 August 2026
ЧП Тульская область
@Incidents71 · 33,794
Telegram ranks this channel #13 of 37 here — alongside 36 others — read 3 September 2026
Myslo
@mysloru · 38,317
Telegram ranks this channel #24 of 82 here — alongside 81 others — read 31 August 2026
т а к и ж и в ё м
@memesfortula · 26,503
Telegram ranks this channel #29 of 54 here — alongside 53 others — read 12 September 2026

This channel appears in 7 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.

Cite this entry

A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 19 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“Новости Тула и Область” (@tula_smi), 64,845 subscribers as measured 19 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/tula_smi.

Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.