Today at 13:00 on the territory of the Regional Children's Hospital at 44 K. Marx Street, as part of World Youth Solidarity Day, the city social action “Spring Smile” will take place. This was reported by the press service of the city administration. On the territory of the hospital, an entertainment and game program is organized for its patients with hospital clowns, the participation of life-size puppets and the release of balloons into the sky.

For the festive decoration of Tomsk, archival photographs are used that tell about the participation of Tomsk residents in the Great Patriotic War. This was reported by the press service of the city administration. Military photographs of Tomsk citizens will appear on advertising banners, pylons and other advertising structures.

More than 70 people have already provided photographs and stories of their fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers to the TV2 news agency. On May 9, all of them will march to the eternal flame in the Camp Garden. Among others, the Panarkins couple plans to bring in portraits of their relatives. The family began preparing for Victory Day in advance. In addition to making pillars, well-known artists in Tomsk decided to update their paintings dedicated to military themes.

On April 21, the “Total Dictation” will take place in 60 cities of Russia and the world. This year Tomsk will join the educational campaign for the first time. "Total dictation" takes place in the form of a voluntary free dictation for everyone. This year, 25 thousand people will take part in it; about 500 citizens are planned to be involved in Tomsk. The texts of the dictations are written specifically for the event by modern Russian writers, and read by famous public figures.

Volunteers of the Russian Children's Fund visited the pupils of the Luch center. Together with the clowns, the children were preparing to celebrate Easter. Volunteers prepared a festive program for the children and talked about the history of the holiday.

User Skela sent a report to the “With Your Own Eyes” section “Siberian stylists compete for the title of the best. On the first day of the festival, professionals in their field shared the secrets of creating unusual hairstyles. Also, Tomsk residents who visited the first day of the hairdressing competition were able to learn a lot about beauty and try professional products for themselves,” writes Skela.

This is the most sorrowful day of Holy Week - on this day Jesus Christ was crucified on the cross in atonement for human sins, reports the Orthodox website. On Good Friday, believers observe the strictest fast of the year. According to church regulations, today it is only allowed to eat bread and water. On this day, believers pray for Jesus Christ. According to folk wisdom, if bread is baked on Good Friday, it will never go stale. It is also customary to illuminate the rings on Good Friday.

The story with the private zoo has reached the point of open confrontation. The owner of the zoo filed a police report against teenagers who illegally entered his private territory. Those who came to feed the bears wrote a counter statement saying that they were threatened. The police arrived at the scene of the conflict because they received information that the owner of the zoo, threatening his neighbors, promised to release the bears from the cage.

Guest of the Rush Hour program is the Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia Vladimir Lukin. “There is no guarantee that Khodorkovsky, like other oligarchs, behaved ideally in the 90s. But this is the nineties and he got a prison term for it. A second term for essentially the same things is frivolous and wrong. Khodorkovsky behaved very dignified while in custody. I would be a strange commissioner if I did not adhere to the humane side of this issue.

The blog of journalist Pavel Sheremet published a post “Rich Jews walked in the desert for 3 days.” Sheremet writes: “These are not Arab extremists. These are Russian billionaires on vacation. In the center is the head of Alfa Group, Mikhail Fridman. This is their pilgrimage walk through Israel. Not 40 years, but only 3 days.

October 13, 2011, at the 14th kilometer towards the new bridge in the area of ​​the turn to the village. In Dzerzhinka, Andrey Vladimirovich Filippov, 26 years old, was hit as a result of an accident, as a result of which he died from numerous injuries. Based on the fact of the collision, the initiation of a criminal case has already been refused 4 times and suspended, according to investigator R.R. Bashirov.

The head of the capital construction department, Alexey Safronov, told the TV2 news agency about this. According to him, the Ministry of Defense has not yet made a final decision on the choice of location for moving the military registration and enlistment office. However, upon receipt in the near future of documents on the transfer of the old military registration and enlistment office building to the mayor's office, it will be necessary to move quickly.

The consecration of Easter cakes, Easter cakes and colored eggs, which believers will bring to churches on Saturday, will begin after the morning liturgy, reports the website of the Tomsk Diocese. On this day, according to legend, the body of the crucified son of God “remained in the tomb,” and his soul descended into hell, bringing the righteous with him.

The changes were introduced today in connection with the upcoming repair of the Overpass, the press service of the regional traffic police reports. When approaching the ring from Klyueva Street, cars can continue moving only to the right - along the Irkutsk Highway. Further movement along the ring - on Suvorov Street and to the left along the Irkutsk Highway towards DOSAAF - is prohibited.

This was reported by the press service of the regional administration with reference to the deputy head of the regional department of entrepreneurship and the real sector of the economy Andrey Akulov. “The increased fire hazard situation in the forests of the region is due to natural factors, possible abnormally warm weather and a certain cyclicity.