15 covered places for trading will be installed along the building at Irkutsk Tract, 112. Tomsk Mayor Nikolai Nikolaychuk held an offsite meeting at the site of the former spontaneous market at Irkutsk Tract, 112-116, the press service of the city administration reports. At the beginning of May, almost 70 shopping pavilions disappeared from Irkutsk, now the task of the regional authorities is to improve the vacated territory and create a green alley here.

On May 17, the dystopia of Soviet playwrights Mikhail Gindin and Vladimir Sinakevich will be presented on the small stage of the theater. The play is staged by director Alexander Zagoraev, already familiar to the Tomsk public. He is known for the plays "Valentine's Night" and "Punishment". This time the director took aim at the science fiction genre. The action of the play takes place in the future and according to the author's idea. There will be no Happy Ending in this story.

“Tales under the Blanket” is the name of the half-hour performance. Preparations for the first premiere took six months: together with the actors of the Skomorokh theater, children studied acting, and mothers sewed dolls for the performance.

Guest of the Rush Hour program is female conductor Maria Eklund. “It is difficult to fight the stereotypes that are embedded in large European institutions and have developed in classical music for centuries. Not only I, but all modern female conductors face this problem. We have to prove that a woman can be a professional at the same level as a man.

Governor of the Tomsk Region Sergei Zhvachkin had a working trip to Seversk the day before. He noted that instantly making Seversk an open city is wrong. “You just need to work out the steps and meet each other. What is preventing us from creating a convention today, for example, that will define these steps? Do you really need to remove the barbed wire for this? No. Yes, in Russia today this issue has not been fully resolved. I talked with Sergei Kiriyenko, with lawyers.

From May 15 to 18, Tomsk will host the III interregional review of ethnocultural centers of indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East. Organizations representing the interests of the Khanty, Mansi, Nenets, Udmurts, Mari, Evenks, Nivkhs, Shors, Altaians, Telengits, and Selkups come to Tomsk.

Several dozen Tomsk residents gathered for a protest action of a new formation - an opposition walk. This format of public protest does not require coordination with the authorities. The organizers of the action planned to discuss during the walk amendments to the federal law on rallies and demonstrations, which are being considered by the State Duma.

The Days of Slavic Literature and Culture began in Tomsk. This year they will be held for the 22nd time. Throughout the coming week, representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church together with Tomsk authorities, students, schoolchildren and teachers will discuss spiritual, moral, cultural and historical issues. This year, the Days of Slavic Culture in Tomsk are accompanied by an important event - the opening of the first Orthodox radio in Siberia.

This year's sowing campaign started, as planned, in the first ten days of May. The sowing of grain, flax, vegetables, and potatoes is underway in the region, the press service of the regional administration reports. According to the head of the department for socio-economic development of villages in the Tomsk region, Vladislav Brok , as of May 15, 16% of the sown area was sown with grain. Work is underway in almost all areas of the region.

On May 20 at 12 noon a charity concert “Ordinary Miracle” will take place in the city garden. We will be raising money for three children in need. Among them is six-year-old Artem Kurakin. The boy has cerebral palsy. Three years ago he couldn't even hold his head up. And now he’s talking and trying to walk. This became possible thanks to treatment in a Chinese clinic. Artem’s relatives collected funds for the trip themselves. They sold the apartment and took out several loans.

From May 15 to 20, the traditional annual festival “Season Premieres” will be held at the Drama Theater. This was reported by the Department of Culture. The premieres of the 161st theater season will be presented to the audience and the jury, which includes theater critic Olga Galakhova and Moscow director Vladimir Salyuk. Based on the results of the festival, Tomsk residents and the jury will choose the best acting works of the season.

The fire broke out in a one-story log house in the village of Sergeevo , Pervomaisky district. According to the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations , information about the fire was received by the duty station at about 6 a.m. The floor and things in the house were burned. Firefighters who arrived at the scene found the body of the 60-year-old owner, who lived alone in the house, in the corner of the room.

On May 3, at the initiative of the public relations department of the Siberian Chemical Plant OJSC, a group of bloggers from Tomsk and Seversk went on an excursion to the closest related enterprise of the Siberian Chemical Plant - the Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant (NCCP), also part of the TVEL Fuel Company. The bloggers visited a workshop for the production of fuel elements and fuel assemblies for nuclear power plants.

In November last year, the Interdepartmental Commission for the Assessment of Residential Premises recognized the house on the street. Moscow tract, 7 emergency. Until now, people refuse to move into a flexible fund. The deputy head of the administration of the Sovetsky district, Elena Vasilyeva, reported this to the TV2 news agency. “The two-story building has 9 apartments - 3 owned, 6 municipal. People are probably afraid of staying in a float fund.

The Severnaya Zvezda newspaper reports about the possible closure of two airports in Strezhevoy and Pionerny. As the publication writes, “the threat of closing the airport arose before, but even now such an outcome is most likely due to the extremely difficult financial situation of the Strezhevoy Airport company.” As director of Strezhevsky Airport Valery Gaevoy commented on this information to the TV2 news agency, there is no talk of stopping the operation of the airport.