A presentation of a three-volume collection of selected works by Vadim Nikolaevich Maksheev took place. This is a collection of prose in which the writer talks about emigration, repression and life in the village. Admirers of the writer’s work are convinced that the value of his works lies in their autobiographical nature. Everything that is written actually happened to Maksheev and people close to him.

Today at 11:00 the delegation of the Tomsk region will go by train to Moscow for the All-Russian Kremlin Christmas tree. The delegation consists of 70 people - 12 accompanying adults and 58 children, among them children from 10 to 14 years old - winners and prize-winners of Olympiads and competitions, excellent students, pupils of orphanages and boarding schools, gifted children from families in difficult life situations.

According to the traffic police, yesterday at 17.00 in the village of Igl, Kargasoksky district, a cargo-passenger UAZ and a Ural collided. At the intersection, the driver of the UAZ did not give way to the truck, and after the collision crashed into a concrete support for the heating main. A 52-year-old passenger, a resident of the city of Omsk, who was in the UAZ died at the scene of the accident. The driver and another passenger of this car suffered minor injuries.

This is how the rector of Siberian State Medical University Vyacheslav Novitsky reacted to yesterday’s meeting of students of the pediatric faculty. Let us remind you that the students were unhappy that their faculty, unlike all the others, were not paid a New Year bonus . “In yesterday’s situation, I was extremely outraged by the slogan “Give back our money.” As rector, I will never again pay bonuses for anything in any department because of the behavior of the pedagogical department!

Tomsk Special Economic Zone celebrates its fifth anniversary. The main innovative project of the region, which, according to its ideologists, brought the region out of an economic dead end into the ranks of the leaders of the economy of the future, became almost the most successful undertaking of the regional authorities over the last decade.

The director of Youth Sports School No. 13 in Nordic combined and ski jumping, Viktor Petrov, told the TV2 news agency. “The issue of transferring the springboard in Akademgorodok to our school has been resolved for a long time. Previously, the springboard belonged to the trade union, then it was sold into private hands. The mayor promised that by the end of the year the 90-meter springboard will be transferred to us,” explained the school director.

The building at 67/1 Krasnoarmeyskaya Street, known as the house with the Firebird, is completing a major renovation. Meanwhile, residents already have complaints about its quality. After repairing the heating system, people are freezing in their apartments. In one of them there is sub-zero temperature and the pipes are frozen. Residents also complain that the walls were not insulated enough during the major renovation.

Was visiting at st. Geroev Chubarovtsev 30a third entrance, and was horrified by the condition of the entrance. There are no windows, the stairs are all worn out, the entire entrance is frozen, the light does not work on all floors, the walls have already been forgotten when they were painted. Photos of the entrance can be seen in the “With Your Own Eyes” section.

The head of the regional department for youth policy, physical culture and sports, Maxim Maximov, told the TV2 news agency about this. “The mayor’s office will take the ski jump in Akademgorodok and the adjacent territories into municipal ownership through an exchange on conditions favorable to both parties. Then it will begin its reconstruction,” Maksimov said.

The head of the City Health Department, Sergei Andreev, told us about this. According to him, all the victims were treated and sent home. “There were no hospitalized people during the day,” added the head of the City Health Department.

According to the traffic police, yesterday morning a Daewoo Espero and a GAZ-66 truck collided on Klyuev Street. The cars were traveling in the same direction. According to the driver of the foreign car, he did not see the truck driving in front of him due to the large number of clouds of steam. The impact caused the GAZ-66 to turn 180 degrees. As a result of the accident, the 29-year-old driver of the car and his two passengers, women 25 and 29 years old, were injured.

Interfax reports this with reference to state prosecutor Sergei Pelevin. The last court hearing this year took place today. “The consideration of the case has been postponed until January 14,” Sergei Pelevin told the Interfax agency. According to the state prosecutor, the defense will be heard at the first meeting in 2011. Let us remind you that a former policeman is accused of cruelly mocking a Tomsk journalist on January 4 in a sobering-up center.

Currently, about a dozen organizations have contacted the festival organizing committee, wishing to make an original New Year's gift for children from large families. Let us remind you that the first charity New Year's festival will be held on Novosobornaya Square on December 28 from 13 to 15 hours. The participating teams will decorate small artificial trees. The jury will appreciate the originality of the design.

Students of the pediatric faculty of Siberian State Medical University should have been paid a bonus before the new year. It was promised to students who distinguished themselves in sports, studies and university life. The amount depended on the number of points scored, but on average, each active student should have received about 3 thousand rubles, reports Rush Hour. All faculties except pediatrics received the promised money.

The night before, due to an overload on the power grid in the village. Timiryazevskoe gas boiler houses on the street were out of order. Shkolnoy, 26 and Putevoy, 1g. According to the director of the Operational Duty Service of Tomsk, Nikolai Savotin, at this time 38 residential buildings remained without heat on Lenin, Puteva, Komsomolskaya, Staro-Traktovaya, Novaya, Sovetskaya streets and in Shkolny Lane, as well as in the village of Nizhny Sklad.