The average salary of rural workers is 3 times less than that of construction workers, 5 times less than in the automotive industry, and 10 times less than in the fuel industry. Why do people in the villages of our region receive so little - this was discussed today at the Regional Department for Socio-Economic Rural Development. The average salary of an agricultural worker in the Tomsk region is two thousand two hundred fifteen rubles. These are the statistics.

A 3-day seminar of expert accountants of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs began in Tomsk. The first expert audit department in the country was opened in 1992 at the Tomsk Department of Internal Affairs. Now, on the basis of this unit, they hope to train experts from Siberia and the Far East. Expert accountants from law enforcement agencies are almost always involved in cases with an economic background.

Today it became known about an explosion on the territory of a polyethylene production workshop. The gas burst occurred yesterday at 10 o'clock in the morning. A worker was injured. A gas explosion followed the release of ethylene into the atmosphere through a safety valve. According to the general director of Neftekhim, Leonid Reznikov, several hundred square meters of glass were knocked out in the two buildings adjacent to the workshop. A boiler room worker was wounded by shrapnel.

A new wastewater treatment plant was inaugurated today in the village of Anikino. Now all local water supply will pass through the treatment system. Due to the poor quality of water in the village, the sanitary and epidemiological station even ordered the closure of children's camps in the area. But now the camps have safely opened, and local residents are rushing to the pump for clean water.

From today there will be fewer stops in the city. City authorities have reduced the number of intermediate stops for route buses. This was done, as they say, to ensure traffic safety. The number of intermediate stopping points has been reduced by about a third. Previously existing stops on almost all routes have been eliminated. Their total number is thirty-four. Most of the abolitions concern the city center.