The first tourist ship may start walking along the Tomsk - Novosibirsk route in the summer of 2017. The previously running tour to Salekhard was too expensive. © Natalya Gredina The new tourist route should replace the 11-day river tour from Novosibirsk to Salekhard, which was opened in 2016, said Pavel Volk, head of the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Tomsk Region.

Taiga.info resumes the release of the ratings of the political activity of the regions of Siberia. In 2016, the protest wave was exhausted, but the struggle for power did not weaken. Krasnoyarsk politicians announced elections to the State Duma and the Legislative Assembly illegitimate, and conflicts flared up between different branches of power in the Irkutsk and Novosibirsk regions. Kuzbass and Khakassia at the end of the year shocked the arrests of senior officials. © ksonline.ru.

The Federal Penitentiary Service in the Altai Territory refused to comment on information about the translation of Ildar Dadin into one of the colonies of the region. A man convicted of participating in unauthorized protest actions announced mockery and threats of rape when he was serving a sentence in Karelia. © kommersant.ru.

Yelizaveta Zyryanova, a climber from Chita, broke her legs during a New Year's trip to Altai. Now in Transbaikalia they are collecting money for the transportation of the victim home. The girl received fractures of both legs on January 3 while climbing one of the Altai mountains. “A friend and a girl went to Altai for the New Year holidays to conquer some height. The girl was engaged in sports mountaineering for a very long time.