In just a week, 27 victims of frost came to the hospital, Nikolai Rodionov, chief physician of the Emergency Medical Service Station, told Rush Hour reporters. “27 people were admitted, 17 with frostbite, another 10 with general hypothermia,” explained Nikolai Rodionov. According to him, homeless people and people suffering from alcohol addiction are more often found among those affected by the cold.

In the project “Born from the USSR”, jointly with the Duma of the city of Tomsk, we will talk about the protection of law and order. Deputy Igor Morozov speaks on this topic with knowledge of the matter and, comparing this and that time, recalls, for example, voluntary people's squads. He is sure that without the active participation of all Tomsk residents, order in the city cannot be restored.

“We give soldiers onions and garlic every day. Of course, someone may not like the fact that the soldiers smell of onions and garlic...”

The previous morning, drivers were unable to start about two hundred minibuses, said Vyacheslav Chernous, head of the municipal services department. “Closer to 10 a.m., the situation stabilized - the route workers were able to start the buses,” said Vyacheslav Chernous. According to the press service of the mayor's office, in the last frosty days, TTU daily released about 40 buses, 30 trams and 60 trolleybuses onto the line.

The operational warning about abnormal cold was extended until December 20, the Tomsk hydrometeorological center told the TV2 news agency. “The weather will remain the same over the weekend. During the day, the air temperature on Saturday and Sunday is expected to range from - 32°C to - 34°C. At night, the thermometer will drop to - 38°C... - 40°C,” forecasters said. An operational warning was issued by the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

A unique collection of materials about Innokenty Smoktunovsky was presented to the Tomsk Regional House of Arts by a collector from Ukraine. According to the regional administration, the donor had been collecting the collection for 50 years and the day before contacted the House of Arts to donate it to Tomsk residents.

Due to low temperatures, tower cranes cannot be launched, but specialists from the Alice M company and employees of the Department of Reinforced Concrete and Stone Structures of TSUAS will continue to work, the press service of the regional administration reports. Specialists will have to install an additional 6-meter rack (it will be through from the 10th to the 9th floor) and place the so-called damper pads on the 9th floor.

An exhibition of drawings “Tomsk, Moleskine and Me” has opened at the Regional Museum of Local Lore. The drawings were made on the pages of world famous notebooks. The organizers decided to perceive painting more pleasantly with music, and invited the soloists of the Moscow production of the musical “The Witches of Eastvin” to the opening.

For the Sivkov family, for whom a concrete slab fell on their car during an explosion in their house on Sibirskaya, 33, Tomsk residents collected 172 thousand rubles, reports Chas Rush. The Daewoo Nexia car was located directly under the windows of the first entrance; it was completely destroyed by a fallen concrete slab. The car was taken on credit and insured under MTPL. Fundraising continues through social networks.

In the Chelyabinsk region, 23 gondola cars loaded with coal derailed the day before, reports the Ural Investigation Department of Transport. The emergency occurred the day before at 18.20 Moscow time. In the area of ​​the Flusovaya – Syrostan section, three contact network supports and the railway track were damaged. Today at 07.17 Moscow time, traffic on the even-numbered route is open, and the freight train has departed.

According to preliminary data from iKS-Consulting, in 2012 Er-Telecom Holding took second place in Russia in terms of the number of wired broadband users. The consulting company takes into account households connected using ADSL, FTTH, etc. technologies, as well as using fixed WiMax. Rostelecom retained first place, while Vimpelcom moved to third, according to iKS-Consulting.

The weather in the city and region is abnormally cold: the air temperature at night is -36...-41°C, in some places there are severe frosts -41...-46°C. This was reported by employees of the Tomsk hydrometeorological center. Today in the city and region, weather forecasters promise frost and fog. During the day, the temperature in Tomsk will remain at -34...-36°C, and at night it will drop to -40...-42°C. North winds of up to 2-7 meters per second are also expected.

Teachers of two faculties of Tomsk State University sent a letter to the rector. They are outraged by the information published on the official website of the Ministry of Education and Science about the average salary at Tomsk State University. The salary allegedly amounts to 55 thousand 300 rubles. Teachers at the Faculty of History and the Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​talk about real wages that are many times lower.

In his address to the Federal Assembly, which was announced on December 12, Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed the opinion that priority support should be given to universities whose graduates connect their future with the place where they live and study. TUSUR Rector Yuri Shurygin supports the president’s opinion. He stated this in an interview with the TV2 news agency. “Our university is 50 years old, the same age for its buildings and dormitories.

Severe frosts continue to disrupt the work of the Tomsk bus station. Another 65 flights were canceled this morning, including the rescheduled flight to Novokuznetsk. This is stated on the bus station website.