This year, for the first time in many years, large federal funds were allocated for the renovation of Tomsk schools. According to the head of the education department, Olga Vasilyeva, the schools received the money as part of the “Modernization of General Education” project. “Our institutions allocated almost 21 million federal funds for the repair of gyms, catering units, for the replacement of windows with double-glazed windows, and for the repair of heating systems.