Since the morning, the duty department of the state traffic police has already received 27 calls, Vitaly Aplin, deputy head of the traffic police department for the Tomsk region, told the TV2 news agency. In total, 132 road accidents were recorded in Tomsk over the past 24 hours. User Roman Unashev sent to the site photographs of accidents that happened on city roads in the morning. “Today is like “Groundhog Day”. Again, snow, ice, unsealed roads and a lot of accidents.

The box for collecting New Year's messages was installed the day before, the press service of the Russian Post branch told the TV2 news agency. Letters to Santa Claus can be formatted however you like. “The messages are often placed in colorful non-standard postal envelopes, and collective letters from little Tomsk residents are brought from kindergartens. The exact indication of the address is not necessary; it is enough to write Santa Claus on the envelope,” the press service reports.

The former head of the Kontur production association, Igor Itkin, was left in custody until the New Year. The panel of the Tomsk Regional Court upheld the decision of the Kirov District Court on the preventive measure for Itkin. The Commissioner for Human Rights in the Tomsk Region, Nelly Krechetova, spoke in defense of the entrepreneur. “The harsh, cruel and unjustified, in my opinion, position of the court damages the reputation of innovative business in Tomsk.

The State Duma held the first reading of a bill that introduces restrictions on the sale of energy drinks in Russia, reports the Lenta.ru portal. According to the chief sanitary doctor of Russia, Gennady Onishchenko, the use of energy drinks has become “a phenomenon in the youth subculture.” “At discos or during preparation for exams with the help of energy drinks, our youth are recruited into alcoholics or drug addicts.

The Ob-Yenisei Canal is known far beyond the Tomsk region. Recently, interest in the half-abandoned historical monument has grown significantly. The regional authorities expect to create a museum and tourist complex in the Verkhneketsky district. Is it possible to revive the ancient waterway and make it accessible? About this in the project “The Story of...”.

The voting on the website of the TV2 news agency has ended on the topic “Who should take the place of the Tomsk business ombudsman?” Candidates of well-known Tomsk business and public administration leaders were proposed for discussion: Denis Molotkov (Deputy Mayor of Tomsk), Andrey Pozdnyakov (Elecard Group of Companies) ), Vladislav Levchugov (GK "Lama"), Konstantin Notman ("Sibelektromotor"), Ivan Klein ("Tomsk Beer") and Andrey Tyutyushev ("Siberian Agrarian Group") (the list is a subjective

The former director of the Kontur production association and the STEK company, Igor Itkin, will remain in custody until the New Year. This decision was made by the regional court panel. Her decision was not influenced either by the intercession of the Human Rights Commissioner or by 40 personal guarantees to the court from well-known entrepreneurs and other public people.

The games for the Tomsk City Basketball Cup among men's teams have ended in Tomsk, reports the press service of the mayor's office. “This year’s tournament was held in sharp and intense competition. Several teams at once - TGASU, NI TPU, TUSUR, SDYUSSHOR No. 6 - 96, PartnerTomsk, Ocean and Kedr - announced their claims to the prize place. The final games determined the three winners: the winner of the tournament and the winner of the City Cup was the NI TPU team. The TUSUR team won silver.

The burial place of pesticides based on DDT (i.e. dust) is located between the village and the Chulym River, reports the French newspaper Le Monde . According to the publication, the pesticides were buried in Teguldet in the 1970s, when their harmful effects on the environment became known. In those years, the population density in Teguldet was low, however, when people settled near the burial site, they began to complain of headaches and nausea.

Rescuers from the Republic of Khakassia are today examining the “Pandora’s Box” cave in the area of ​​the village. Malaya Syya, in which Tomsk students may have disappeared. This was reported by the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Republic of Khakassia. According to preliminary information, three tourists did not leave the cave at the appointed time. “The owner of one of the tourist centers was alarmed.

Tomsk residents actively responded to the Philharmonic's request. Yesterday, the BKZ received many calls with questions about where to bring a vacuum cleaner, said Irina Afanasyeva, head of the public relations department of the Tomsk Philharmonic. “We settled on two vacuum cleaners - Buran and Typhoon. We specifically asked for Soviet vacuum cleaners because they do not have oil filters, which would not clog the pipes of the organ. They also have the most powerful blowing.

First after the capital cities (Moscow and St. Petersburg) in the ranking was TPU. The ranking of universities was compiled by the Russian rating agency "Expert" on the initiative of the Volnoye Delo Foundation, which provides support to domestic education and science. According to the press service of the regional administration, four Tomsk universities were in the top hundred: TPU took 8th place, TSU - 15th, TUSUR - 37th, Siberian State Medical University took 47th place.

Outraged buyers of apartments in unfinished buildings in the Vesenniy microdistrict held today in front of the city hall, reports Rush Hour. Tomsk residents have been waiting for the construction of their apartments to be completed for several years. “I've been waiting three years. They don't tell us anything. They just answer: wait, we’ll build it,” says one of the shareholders, Mikhail Kochergin.

The accident occurred on the 68th kilometer of the Tomsk-Kolpashevo highway the day before, the traffic police department reports. The 21-year-old driver of a Lada car lost control. The car crossed into oncoming traffic and collided with an oncoming Mazda Titan. As a result of the incident, the driver of the domestic car died on the spot. His driving experience is 2 years.

An unusual birch tree at the 98th kilometer along the Kolpashevo - Bely Yar road was photographed by Alexander Germanov. “The curved trunk of an old birch tree is rotten, and from the highest point of this wood a new young birch tree grows! Isn’t it very unusual?” said Alexander Germanov. Note that the photographs were taken three years apart.