A unique event in all respects occurred in the Asinovsky district. On the church holiday of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary, Old Believers marched in procession from the village of Gar to the place where there were once monasteries destroyed by Soviet power. About a hundred people covered 18 kilometers of off-road terrain and swamps. There have never been such massive and lengthy processions of the cross in the history of our Old Believer Church.

The meeting of City Duma deputies continues. There are three main items on the agenda and 16 more labeled “miscellaneous.” In the first half of the day, the most controversial issue was the issue of clarifying the city budget. Over six months, the treasury received 89 million rubles of its own income. Deputies decided where to spend this money. A quarter of them will be used for major repairs of buildings, 400 thousand - for the improvement of toilets.

The fifth orphanage for deaf and hard of hearing children may be closed tomorrow - this issue will be considered by deputies of the City Duma. If the orphanage is closed, then all children and staff from a separate building will be transferred to the vacant wing of special correctional boarding school No. 15. According to rumors, the vacant building may go to the Center of Siberian Folklore. The orphanage staff is against this.

Harvesting has begun in the Tomsk region. According to experts, this harvest is the best in the last ten years. But, as always, there are also disadvantages. On many farms the wheat has not yet ripened; in some places the grain is still blooming. The main feature of this summer is that grain crops approached harvesting differently. In some places the grain has already ripened, in others it has died down, and in others it is still blooming.

Today, the mayor's office selected an auditing firm that will conduct an examination of the cost of travel on route transport. Until the auditors provide all the documents on the economic justification for the tariff increase, deputies of the City Duma will not support the route operators. Four companies today applied for an order from the City Duma - these are the local Extra-Audit and AMM-Audit, the Moscow Balance. LTD and the Novosibirsk audit company Siberian Expertise.