If you want to do figure skating, pay. Three thousand six hundred rubles costs an hour of training at the Seversk Ice Palace. This year, the budget of the closed city stopped paying for classes at the Olympic Reserve Children's and Youth Sports School named after Lyubov Egorova. Parents have to fold up so that their children can fully train. Tomsk figure skaters follow the same pattern. Not everyone has money. Children skip training or quit figure skating.

Children should train on the ice of the indoor skating rink in Seversk at the expense of budget funds, and not at the expense of their parents’ wallets. It is the municipalities, including Tomsk and Seversk, who are obliged to find the necessary funding for children’s and youth sports schools, - this is how Maxim Maximov, head of the regional department for youth policy, physical education and sports, commented on the situation with paid classes for figure skaters on quality ice.

Melted snow instead of well water. Residents of the village of Malinovka, Tomsk region, spend the winter in extreme conditions. The water supply in part of the village froze in mid-December and, as utility workers say, it is not yet possible to repair it - the weather does not allow it. Snow from the front garden has become a very valuable resource for Lyubov Komova this winter. The only source of drinking water. “Please, look at the water - soot! We have the entire periodic table in this water.

A fire in the courtyard of a private house occurred in the village of Rybolovo. It was not possible to put out the fire quickly, and pensioner Nina Purtova lost all her outbuildings. She blames the local administration for this, not the firefighters. The roads that lead to Nina Ivanovna’s house are not cleared of snow. Therefore, fire trucks were not immediately able to get to the place of the call. Fishermen noticed the fire near Vera Purtova’s house at about 7 am.

Two Tomsk residents reached the finals of the Siberian of the Year competition: sculptor Leonty Usov and 8-year-old Nastya Erokhina. Last January, she saved her younger sister from a fire. Among the competition participants are playwright Evgeniy Grishkovets, absolute European and world champion in rhythmic gymnastics Evgenia Kanaeva and other Siberians worthy of becoming people of the year. Based on the results of online voting, 7 out of 28 contestants will be recognized as winners.

Chess amateurs are preparing to take on the professionals. The history of Tomsk chess already knows cases when grandmasters crowned with regalia were stopped by ordinary dischargers. Their next meeting will take place within the framework of the international tournament named after Peter Izmail. This year the international chess festival in memory of Peter Izmailov will gather participants for the 14th time.

Hooligan attack on Victor Kress. The incident happened in the Palace of Children and Youth Creativity on Vershinina, where the mayor of Tomsk Nikolaychuk reported to the city public about the work last year. The governor was among those invited to the event. The attack happened when the governor was already leaving the hall. Victor Kress was hit in the face by Sergei Zaikov. In Tomsk he is known as an organizer of rallies and calls himself a human rights activist.