Today at Tomsk State University the names of the winners of the federal scholarship program, which is financed by the head of the Interros concern Vladimir Potanin, were announced. Self-confidence and the desire to test your strength and knowledge. This is, in principle, enough to qualify for a monthly Potanin scholarship. Today at TSU they named those who brilliantly passed all the tests of coaches from Moscow.

Today an unusual picket took place on Karl Marx Street. What makes it unusual is that the reason for the picket was not utility problems or fires. Tomsk architects and art historians protested against the demolition of the house on Karl Marx, 32. They believe that this wooden building has great historical value. The historical appearance of the city, art historians say, is being destroyed by multi-story red brick buildings growing on the site of old houses.

An emergency at the second clinic. In one of the service rooms, a nurse found balls of mercury. All visitors and staff were urgently evacuated. Mercury in the water tap - this message was received by the operational duty officer of the Ministry of Emergency Situations around noon. They called from the second clinic. One of the employees of the medical facility found metallic-colored droplets in the sink in the service room.

Every year, parents of students at school No. 27 donate money for ongoing classroom repairs. But mothers and fathers of 3 "a" class decided not to spend the family budget on this. According to the law, current repairs of classrooms must be done not at the expense of parents, but at the expense of the city budget. But there is no money in the budget for this. 20 thousand a year is all that is allocated to one school.

They continue to assure us that domestic paradise is just around the corner. Tomsk utility systems have almost completely mastered the housing and communal services market. And already for February fats we will pay to the TKS bank account. Over the course of six months, the organization managed to survive a number of conflicts with the White House and a change in leadership. Now officials and utility workers are trying to sort out the contracts between TCS and users of their services.

The sudden cold weather has made life difficult for the homeless. Many of them freeze to death on the streets in such weather or end up in medical institutions with frostbite. Cases of delivery of frostbitten homeless people have already been registered in city hospitals. Many seek salvation at the Center for Social Assistance for Persons Without a Fixed Place of Residence. There, people without documents or registration are provided with assistance, food and overnight accommodation.

All this morning, the residents of the house on Gogol, 36/5 struggled with the water element. There was a real downpour in their apartments. The owners of the apartments in the building at 36/5 Gogol Street started this morning with water treatments. True, people had to take a shower not in the bathroom, but in their own beds - hot water gushed from the ceiling. Residents tried to stop the flood on their own.