On July 6, 2014, in Tula, in Lenin Square in front of the Marriage Palace, a monument to the Tula gingerbread was ceremoniously opened. This round gingerbread, cast in bronze, has a diameter of 2.5 meters and weighs 1300 kilograms.

On the front side of the monument, the inscription reads: "The Tula gingerbread has been known since 1685," which corresponds to the date from the land survey book of that time and is considered the birthday of this sweet symbol of Tula. On the reverse side, there is a quatrain by authors Chizhov A.V. and Poyarkov V.A. and the inscription "Glory to Tula craftsmen." Previously, a cornerstone for the monument "To Our Glorious Ancestors" was located here, which was removed during the construction of a shopping center. Now, there stands the gingerbread monument and a modern fountain.

The production of Tula gingerbreads resumed in 1954. In August of that year, the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition was opening in Moscow, which later became VDNH. For this event, the Tula food industry was tasked with resuming gingerbread production. Ivan Lukich Davydov, the head of the food industry department of the Tula Oblast Executive Committee, found elderly craftsmen who had previously engaged in baking. Equipment was restored, old recipes were found, wooden molds were made, and trial production began. The first gingerbreads did not succeed, but after six months, baking became successful. The first batch of quality gingerbreads was sent to Moscow for tasting by the Minister of Food Industry of the USSR, Vasily Petrovich Zotova, who passed them to Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan. Mikoyan, in turn, gave them for tasting to the country's leadership, including N.S. Khrushchev and G.M. Malenkov. The gingerbreads received high praise for their long-lasting freshness and flexibility, as well as for their delicious jam filling. The Soviet leadership expressed gratitude and instructed to establish mass production. For this, additional resources were allocated to the Tula region. Since then, Tula gingerbreads have become the calling card of the city and the region.

Tula gingerbreads have a rectangular shape measuring 140 x 70 x 18 mm, with a filling of jam that can be replaced with high-quality jelly. They are glazed and have the inscription "Tula." They are made from first-grade flour with the addition of butter and natural honey, and are flavored with essence. Gingerbreads are sold by weight and individually. Today, they are produced at the factories "Old Tula," "Clear Glade," "Honey Traditions," as well as in private bakeries.

In Tula, a museum "Tula Gingerbread" has been opened, dedicated to this delicacy, and since 2016, the festival "Gingerbread Day" has been held. The largest Tula gingerbread was made on September 19, 2019, and entered the Russian Record Registry. It weighed 117 kilograms, had a length of 1.8 m, a width of 1.18 m, and a height of 0.07 m. The record was set by the Tula confectionery factory "Honey Traditions."