Cold weather and icy roads led to large queues of people wanting to change their summer tires to winter ones. Today, this service has become the most popular in city car services. The line at the tire shop reaches several dozen cars. Although in such weather, traffic police inspectors do not recommend that motorists drive on summer tires even before vulcanization.

Vice-Governor of the Tomsk Region Yuri Sukhoplyuev said that next year the region will resume funding for two regional target programs - to prevent child road traffic injuries and improve road safety. It is planned to allocate about 15 million rubles from the regional budget for the implementation of programs next year.

According to the traffic police, yesterday at approximately 16.30 on Rosa Luxemburg Street, a Toyota Corona Premium car hit a 9-year-old boy. According to his mother, who was standing on the opposite side of the road at the time of the accident, the child was crossing the road at a pedestrian crossing. The driver of the foreign car claims that the boy ran across the road a few meters from the zebra crossing. The child was taken to the hospital with injuries.

The task of the famous illusionists, the Safronov brothers, is not to mislead, which is how “illusionism” is translated from French, but to prove to the audience that the impossible is possible. To do this, they pass through each other, swallow the blades and free themselves from the knots of the straitjacket without the help of their hands. The illusionist brothers decided to reveal some of the secrets of their skills at a show in Tomsk.

More than one million rubles will be allocated for these purposes by the end of 2010. The funds were allocated from the reserve fund for financing unforeseen expenses of the Tomsk region administration. The list of events for which money is allocated was approved by the head of the region, Victor Kress. In particular, 300 thousand rubles will be allocated to equip medical examination rooms with diagnostic tools in the region. Another 300 thousand rubles.

Hello! I have such sad news. My mother-in-law works at Pushkina 61 st.1. They have no heating at all and are not supposed to, because previously their building belonged to a bearing plant, but now it has gone bankrupt and the building is somehow semi-deserted in terms of housing and communal services. That is, the building is private, but for housing and communal services it belonged to the GPP or Rolton or whoever, now what is it called, Tomsk Bearing or whoever.

An exhibition of Tomsk sculptor Leonty Usov was held at the Pushkin House in London. The artist brought to England a series of works united under the title “The Cherry Orchard”. True, due to problems at customs, the exhibition was given a different name: “How Yasha saved the exhibition.” The prim British liked Usov's vision of Chekhov and Shakespeare, and in Stratford - the homeland of William Shakespeare - they are now eagerly awaiting the sculpture of Leonty Usov.

The user Mokrushinskie wrote to us 11:55 11/10/10: It would be good if Mr. Gorin’s subordinates quickly (this means quickly, immediately, at full speed, instantly, this second, ah moment, fast, quickly, rapidly, with speed, vite, rapidement, promptement) arrived at the scene of the accident, especially when a minibus, a Muscovite and a Toyota came together during the morning rush hour at the intersection of Mokrushin and the Kolarovsky tract. This is exactly what happened this morning.

We continue to talk about the new route of the TV-2 expedition. The project participants followed the path of construction of the Kolyvano-Kuznetskaya line. In the 18th century, this fortified area defended the borders of the Russian Empire in southern Siberia. Modern settlements arose on the Altai borders more than 200 years ago. Our film crew visited one of them. The village of Charyshskoye is in the diary of the TV-2 expedition.

In October, a decrease in prices for vegetables in retail markets, as reported by the press service of the mayor's office, including at weekend fairs , is associated with the appearance on the shelves of large quantities of products from JSC Tom, the Kislovsky Ovoshchevod farm and agricultural producers of the Pervomaisky district. Vegetables fell in price by 21.8% last month.

Snowfall again came as a surprise to Tomsk motorists. By this time, 180 accidents had already occurred. For comparison, for the entire day yesterday there were 50 accidents. As noted by the traffic police, the most problematic areas in the morning were the intersections of Yakovleva Street and Mariinsky Lane, Komsomolsky Avenue with Mariinsky Lane, Smirnova Street and Mira Avenue. Now the most dangerous areas in the city are the Irkutsk highway, the ARZovsky crossing and parking areas.

In fact, it has been open for a week, but the official opening took place only today. The new large shopping center Metro Cash & Carry solemnly presented a trade format that is still unusual for Tomsk - small wholesale. The main clients of the store will be legal entities - owners of shops, hotels, cafes, restaurants. According to Metro rules, purchases there can only be made using a special customer card.

Evgeny Ivanov, deputy director of the Spetsavtokhozyaistvo municipal unitary enterprise, reported this to the TV2 news agency. “Due to the incessant snow, we have extended the working day by 5 hours. At ten in the evening, the second shift will take to the streets of Tomsk. At night, snow removal will be organized from the central streets of the city,” added E. Ivanov. According to him, currently 8 tractors sweeping sidewalks and 7 sand spreaders continue to operate in the city.

Five Muslims went from Tomsk to Mecca to perform the Hajj. Imam-khatib of the White Mosque Nurulla Kalykahunov told us about this. Believers will begin the Hajj rituals on Saturday, when they will go up to the Mina Valley and set up tents there. As imam-khatib Nurullah says, for several days all pilgrims live there in equal conditions - both rich and poor. The most important day of the ceremony this year will be on November 16th.

As we were informed by the traffic police press service, as of 10 a.m., 43 calls had been received from accident scenes. Moreover, throughout yesterday, inspectors attended only 50 accidents. This morning there was an accident on Elizarov Street: three small cars collided and were seriously damaged. The drivers received minor injuries.