Photo: Alexandra Kompanets. The “Free Shelf” campaign took place at the creative site of the Smile City shopping center. Tomsk residents were able to exchange books, discuss what they had read earlier, and also take a master class on making bookmarks.

Today and tomorrow there will be a tour of the Seversky Theater for children and youth on the stage of the Skomorokh Theater. They will show the play “Buka” for little Tomsk residents, the TV2 news agency was told at the theater. A fluffy knitted bunny gets into trouble, but he doesn't know how to make friends. “The evil Wolf almost knitted mittens from it. It’s good that the guys and Uncle Play with Friends were nearby and helped out the Little Bunny.

Police are conducting an investigation into a stab wound inflicted on a man, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Tomsk Region reports. A report about what happened in a house on Bolshaya Podgornaya Street was received by the duty station at about 10 a.m. today. “According to preliminary data, the man was stabbed in the heart during a quarrel with his partner. The citizen died before the arrival of emergency medical services,” the department informs.

As the weather warms up, dangerous winter activities for schoolchildren have resumed. Young extreme sports enthusiasts ride on tram couplings. “When we drive, they always cling. Sometimes I go out and kick them out, but as soon as we get going, they catch up again. Sometimes we ask passengers to wait until we leave, to pick them up,” says tram conductor Valentina Sidorova.

According to the order of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Russians will rest for five days on the May Day holidays, and 4 days on the weekend dedicated to Victory Day. During the past New Year holidays, January 5 and 6 fell on Saturday and Sunday and coincided with non-working days. It was decided to move this weekend to May 2 and 3. February 23rd falls on Saturday this year. By order of Medvedev, the holiday will not be moved to Monday, February 25. This day off will be moved to May 10.

Convenient, informational and safe. Tomsk bus stops are undergoing large-scale modernization. A project has already been developed that should replace 632 old bus stops in the city. Authorities plan to install CCTV cameras, panic buttons, kiosks, terminals, Wi-Fi hotspots and even toilets at the new stops. All this requires considerable financial investment. However, the mayor's office is not going to allocate money for this.

If professional football players are still on vacation, then this is the hottest time for amateurs. Games of the TV-2 winter football tournament are held at five city stadiums.

The Tomsk History Museum invites Tomsk residents to attend Christmas fortune telling. Today at 5 p.m., everyone will be able to find out about their destiny with the help of traditional Russian and Chinese fortune-telling, including taking part in fortune-telling with a rooster. And also tell fortunes using the Chinese Book of Changes and on lamb bones. Let us add that a professional tarot card fortune teller will visit the Tomsk History Museum.

Residents of the third microdistrict on the Irkutsk tract are sounding the alarm. Walking dogs in the forest belt near houses, they discover fresh stumps every day. In broad daylight, someone is cutting down large trees. In less than a month, more than one hundred and fifty trees disappeared from the forest belt.