In the summer of 2009, the demand for tours abroad fell by 30%, Elena Komleva, chairman of the board of the Novosibirsk Association of Tourist Organizations (NATO), reported on October 13, a correspondent of TAIGI.info reported. “Due to the growth of the euro, the demand for tours to Bulgaria fell by 30%, so the number of flights from Novosibirsk to this country was reduced in the summer,” Komleva said.

Omsk took first place in the study of the quality of service in the banking sector, Oksana Aulchenkova, president of the Nextep group of companies (author of the study), said on October 13, a TAIGI.info correspondent reported. “An independent monitoring of the quality of customer service in banks in three cities of Siberia was conducted by Nextep in September 2009. - said Aulchenkova.

MTS summed up the results of the first year of commercial operation of 3G networks in Siberia. According to the company, a third of all 3G Internet traffic of MTS Russia passes through the 3G network of Siberian regions, the press service said. MTS summed up the results of the first year of commercial operation of 3G networks in Siberia. According to the company, a third of all 3G Internet traffic of MTS Russia passes through the 3G network of Siberian regions, the press service said.

An unusual rescue operation took place in the city of Cheremkhovo, Irkutsk region. The firefighters of the Cheremkhovo garrison of the fire department had to work hard, getting out of the cellar ... a cow. In addition to firefighters, employees of the local administration and even the head of the city of Cheremkhovo participated in the operation to rescue the animal. And it was like this... An unusual rescue operation took place in the city of Cheremkhovo, Irkutsk region.

Very soon, the residents of Tyumen will have an interesting exhibition dedicated to home coziness and comfort. Exhibition “Furniture. Interior items. Home Goods - 2010" will be held from 3 to 5 November this year in the exhibition hall of the Tyumen Fair at the address: Tyumen, st. Sevastopolskaya, 12.

In the Nerchinsk district of the Trans-Baikal Territory, police officers and the FSB found about 1,000 pieces of ammunition in the garden of a local resident. The man collected them for two years in order to then hand them over for scrap, told Taiga.info on October 13, an employee of the press service of the regional police department In the Nerchinsk district of the Trans-Baikal Territory, police officers and the FSB found about 1,000 pieces of ammunition in the garden of a local resident.

Russia and China initialed an agreement on the supply of Russian gas to China from the resource base of Western Siberia, the Far East and the Sakhalin shelf. The question of the participation of the Chinese side in the construction of a pipeline gas supply system was not touched upon at the talks.

The incentive for the development of domestic tourism in the Novosibirsk region may be recreation on the water - the demand for river cruises is growing and remains unsatisfied, Olga Shokhina, deputy director for the commercial part of the River Cruises company, said on October 13, a TAIGI.info correspondent reported. “Before perestroika, four large motor ships with a capacity of 150-200 people operated in Novosibirsk - two operated voyages along the river, two were in reserve.

On October 13, in the Novokuznetsk district of the Kemerovo region, police liquidated an underground workshop for the production of Karachinskaya mineral water, a spokesman for the regional administration told TAIGA.info. "Guardians of the order found in the workshop more than 550 empty bottles with labels pasted with the name "Karachinskaya", as well as components for the manufacture of counterfeit - salt, soda and others," the source said. This fact is under investigation.

The interregional project "Days of Culture of Russian Germans of the Tomsk Region in the Kemerovo Region" will be held on October 16-18 in Mariinsk, Anzhero-Sudzhensk and Kemerovo, an employee of the press service of the Department of Culture of the Tomsk Region told TAIGA.info on October 13. Performances by Tomsk residents will be held at three venues in Kuzbass: in Mariinsk (October 16), in Anzhero-Sudzhensk (October 17) and in Kemerovo (October 18).

As part of a tour of Russian cities, where Polish exiles once lived, the theater named after. Helena Modzheevskaya (Legnica, Poland) On October 13, the Tomsk Drama Theater will show the play “The Siberian Tale” based on the play by Krzysztof Kopka directed by the director and director of the theater Jacek Glomb, an employee of the press service of the Department of Culture of the Tomsk Region told TAIGA.info.

Resourceful entrepreneurs in the Canadian city of Montreal founded an unusual taxi service - Bixi. Now Canada is famous not only for Niagara Falls, national parks, nature reserves or Prince Edward Island. In the city of Montreal, which is located in the province of Quebec, its southwestern part, resourceful entrepreneurs have created a real bicycle taxi. This idea made a splash, and to use the taxi service.

The prosecutor's office of the Omsk region took control of the investigation of a criminal case initiated on the evening of October 12, 2009 on the fact of the murder of two persons, reported on October 13 on the agency's website.

On October 22-24, the Novosibirsk State Philharmonic presents the international jazz festival Jazz in Jeans (“Jazz in Jeans”). The list of participants includes jazzmen from New York to Jamaica, Marina Monakhova, press secretary of the Philharmonic Society, told TAIGA.info on October 13.

On October 12, four cars collided on the M-53 highway in the Angarsk district of the Irkutsk region, as a result of which two people were injured. Two cows were responsible for the accident, Lyubov Gabeeva, press secretary of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Irkutsk Region, told TAIGE.info on October 13. On October 12, four cars collided on the M-53 highway in the Angarsk district of the Irkutsk region, as a result of which two people were injured.