Over the past 24 hours, the area of ​​forest fires in the Tomsk region has decreased by 30 hectares and as of the morning of August 15 it is 635 hectares, reports the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Tomsk Region. As of the morning of August 15, there were 7 forest fires in the region in three districts: two in the Aleksandrovsky district, four in the Kargasoksky district and one in the Verkhneketsky district.

The day before, at a press conference at the RIA Novosti media center, Tomsk Region Prosecutor Vasily Voikin explained that the department had not received a legally justified response from the court regarding the dismissal of the claim. “We do not intend to raise this topic. There were a lot of behind-the-scenes games, PR things. We exclusively filed this claim on a legal basis, we wanted to receive a legally sound answer, but we still have not received it.

According to the center, the “line” will take place today from 16:00 to 20:00. Crisis Center specialists will be able to answer questions: violence in the family and against women, protecting the labor rights of women who find themselves in difficult life situations, providing psychological assistance to family members whose relatives are addicted to alcohol and drugs. Everyone will be able to ask their questions and share problems by calling 626-046, 624-400.

Tomsk Polytechnic University signed an agreement with Texas A&T University, ranked 66th in the list of the best universities in the world, on joint training of undergraduates and graduate students. This was reported by the TPU press service. The University of Texas is involved in developments in the nuclear and oil and gas industries.

The convict has a number of particularly serious crimes on his record, including arson of wooden houses, which resulted in the death of 7 people. This was reported by the press service of the Tomsk Region Prosecutor's Office. According to the prosecutor's office, in May 2007, a man set fire to a residential apartment building by dousing the entrance with gasoline. Thus he wanted to kill his friend. As a result of the fire, 2 people died and property worth more than 3 million rubles was damaged.

By December, initial work will be completed there and traffic will begin on the road without exits to federal highways. Construction of the left bank will be completed in 2014. The head of the city capital construction department, Alexey Safronov, announced this at a press conference at the Interfax agency. “For some reason, Moscow experts decide that Tomsk needs this road and allocate federal money.

All residents should have normal water pressure with good pressure by 13:00, reports the press service of Tomskvodokanal. By 8 a.m. there was already water on the first floors of some of the streets in the Kirovsky and Sovetsky districts. The earliest normal pressure in the system will be established in the microdistricts of Mokrushina, Stepanovka, village. Neftyan - the lower zone of the Southern District.

The head of the city capital construction department, Alexey Safronov, announced this at a press conference at the Interfax agency. According to him, today a bridge construction project has been prepared, but the working documentation is not ready yet. The complete design of such structures, based on the experience of other projects, costs 450-600 million rubles.

Some Tomsk media reported information about possible frosts in August. Forecasters from the Tomsk hydrometeorological center denied this information. As the head of the meteorology department of the Tomsk hydrometeorological center, Svetlana Ryukhtina, told the TV2 news agency, there will be no frosts in the city and region until the weekend, and from August 20, warming will begin to +21...+23 with variable precipitation. “Cold arctic air has now arrived in the Tomsk region.

Deputy Mayor for Investment Policy Denis Molotkov told the TV2 news agency about the progress of the issue of the appearance of the first McDonald's restaurant in Tomsk. “We immediately offered the McDonald's specialists about 10 options for land plots for construction. Now they are trying to integrate the quadrature of the building with all the necessary land resources around into these land plots.

The Novosibirsk company has begun work on cleaning the storm sewer system in Tomsk. As Tomsk Mayor Nikolai Nikolaychuk explained the day before in the “First Person” program on TV-2, the company’s work will be monitored by city technical supervision. “I am sure that there will be no marriage,” the mayor emphasized. Meanwhile, the head of the city said that today 60% of Tomsk roads, of which 750 km, are not equipped with storm drainage.

He stated this today at a meeting with journalists, RIA Novosti reported. “This is a natural process. The right of the first leader is to select people who, in his opinion, will complete the assigned tasks. It was understandable, predictable, such a shift is taking place, I think, quite civilized without waving a saber or saber. New people come - time will tell ", - RIA Novosti quotes the words of the ex-governor of the Tomsk region Viktor Kress .

“This is our Russian peculiarity: whoever leaves, they begin to trample on him.”

Tomsk residents will be able to see prehistoric insects in amber at the Tomsk Regional Museum of Local Lore starting today. Museum researcher Oleg Asratyan reported this to the TV2 news agency. At the exhibition “Prehistoric Insects in Amber” you will be able to see 30 inclusions - these are frozen drops of resin in which insects of the Paleogene period remained forever. The age of the exhibits is 40-50 million years, this is the period of rapid flowering of prehistoric mammals.

The fire occurred the day before at 8:45 am in the city of Kolpashevo. According to the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, a 2-story residential building at Engelsa 28 caught fire. By the time firefighters arrived, 12 people managed to leave their apartments on their own; residents of one of the apartments on the 2nd floor were unable to get out due to a jammed iron door . Firefighters rescued a woman and her children, aged 6 and 1, from a smoke-filled apartment.