Today it is difficult to imagine how and under what conditions the New Year was celebrated during the Great Patriotic War. The past passes and takes away things from that era. Memories of people who lived in times distant to the present generation remain. What was the main thing in the New Year holidays during the war?

Ice on the sidewalks caused mass visits of city residents to emergency rooms. Bruises and fractures are what people most often turn to doctors for. The City Hall even decided to make a list of the most slippery places in the city. The special motor vehicle service explains that the frost prevented the fight against ice.

A 21-year-old girl was injured. She was hit at an unregulated pedestrian crossing, the press service of the traffic police in the Tomsk region reported. The girl was hit the day before at noon on Komsomolsky Ave., 7. At an unregulated pedestrian crossing, she was hit by a 42-year-old Lada Kalina driver. The girl was taken to the hospital with injuries.

Photo: workers of the toy production workshop in Tuendat Several years ago, in the village of Tuendat, Pervomaisky district, a new unusual production appeared - a workshop for the production of figurines from polystyrene foam. At first, the company's workers made hunting dummies - drakes and ducks from polystyrene foam. Then the range was expanded with garden figurines. And three years ago they started making New Year's toys.

Today the Tomsk bus station will cancel four evening flights, senior dispatcher of the Tomsk bus station Tatyana Stratan told the TV2 news agency. Buses to Barnaul at 20:10, to Yarovoye at 20:15, to Belokurikha at 21:00 and to Novokuznetsk at 21:50 were canceled. “These buses did not arrive in Tomsk, so we are forced to cancel these flights. From tomorrow all flights will operate as usual.

As a result of yesterday's search at the Asinovsky timber processing plant RosKitInvest, a criminal case was opened. The case was opened by Tomsk customs officers who suspected RosKitInvest of deliberately evading customs duties on logging equipment. On the contrary, LPK employees consider the claims of customs officers to be unfounded and the form of presenting claims to be insulting.

There is still no Christmas tree installed in the village and there are no New Year’s decorations on the streets, local resident Elena told the TV2 news agency. According to her, 40 children are born every year in the village of Rassvet, but the administration is in no hurry to develop an ice town for them. “We don’t have a Christmas tree or decorations in our village. The local housing and communal services department just hung up their lights and set up a wooden slide.

The amount of charitable contributions for families affected by the explosion on Sibirskaya, 33 is 671,128 rubles (as of the morning of December 18), reports the website of the Department of Social Protection of the Population of the Tomsk Region. Of this amount, 156,000 rubles were distributed. 84,000 rubles were given to families with children as additional financial assistance, the remaining funds were transferred to victims whose apartments were at the epicenter of the explosion.

Filming of the New Year's video clip for the song "Snow" continues in Tomsk. One of the authors of the New Year's project - member of the dance team "Yudi" Denis Vishnyak - told the TV2 news agency that many famous Tomsk residents starred in the video.

TSU Rector Georgy Mayer answered questions from the staff of the Faculty of History. Let us recall that last week a trade union meeting was held at the Faculty of History, following which a letter was written to the rector. It expressed complaints about the discrepancy between the average salaries at the faculty and the average salaries at the university stated on the website of the Ministry of Education and Science, namely 55 thousand 300 rubles.

A vote is opening on the website of the TV2 news agency: readers of our website choose the winner of the next Tomsk Cicero award. In December, the list of contenders included the following quotes: - Governor of the Tomsk Region Sergei Zhvachkin (“The President of the regions both listens and hears”) - Deputy of the Legislative Duma of the Tomsk Region Valery Osiptsov - about the problem of lack of toilets in Tomsk (“The authorities have no problems with urination.

Today the charity event “Old Age in Joy” ends in the city, one of the organizers, Anna, told the TV2 news agency. As part of the campaign, Tomsk residents are collecting New Year gifts for lonely old people - colorful bags with three things inside. “They have already brought more than five hundred gifts. Since there are more single grandmothers than grandfathers, they are bringing more gifts for them.

Artist Nikas Safronov came to Tomsk to present his personal exhibition to the townspeople. The artist shared his impressions of the city at a press conference at RIA Novosti. “I really wanted to visit Tomsk, although Chekhov’s books didn’t say very good things about it. Tomsk has a fabulous face. I had a beautiful Siberian cat, which I gave to my bride. He always stood out from the rest of the cats. So, Tomsk, like this cat, fabulous. I looked at the historical houses.

"The leap year ends well. The end of the world should not happen in the Tomsk region."

Today, a specialist in the field of restorative medicine, Vladimir Efremov, was going to conduct health-improving gymnastics at the Pobeda sports recreation park. As he told the TV2 news agency, due to frost, the opening of the season was postponed until next Thursday. “It’s quite cold now and there are no buses, so I didn’t take any risks. I hope that next Thursday it will become warmer and we will hold a lesson,” said Vladimir Efremov.