Recently, on one of the social networks on the Internet, I subscribed to the newsletter of a group called “About Tomsk”. This group does not publish any news, but almost daily it posts photographs of old or new, modern or long-gone Tomsk. Over the past week, this group has featured collections of photographs of the city from the 60s and 70s, taken by both professional and amateur photographers. It’s impossible to tear myself away from them; I look at the pictures for hours. They're worth it.

Photo: user Nina “Returning from work, I noticed snow hares hugging a tree in the park. It all looks very funny. Probably, sculpting traditional snowmen is no longer so interesting - they have been replaced by a new form,” writes Nina.

Ice dams were removed from another thousand roofs. This was reported by the press service of the mayor's office. The most roofs were cleaned in the Sovetsky district: 300 snow covers were cut off, and snow was removed from 73 roofs out of 416. In the Kirovsky district, 229 houses were freed from ice, and 44 roofs were completely cleaned. In the Leninsky district, icicles and snow covers were removed from 146 roofs, and snow was completely removed from 74.

Residents of Vologda made a video for the mayor of the city. They also sang about the tariffs for fined parking for cars: “Greedy greedy people have appeared in our outback. And they are raking in bribes with their ungodly hairy hand... They are hiding behind the law and the parking lot. 565 rubles per hour - have they gone crazy???”

Anatoly Smorgonsky has been appointed Executive Director - Director of the Products and Marketing Department of Rostelecom. Anatoly Smorgonsky graduated from Voronezh State University with a degree in Radiophysics and Electronics Physics, the International Institute of Computer Technologies with a degree in Finance and Credit, and also received an MBA from the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation with a degree in Marketing and Sales Management.

Today is World Cancer Day. Many Russian cancer centers and clinics conduct free examinations and open days. The Tomsk Research Institute of Oncology did not organize any special events and worked as usual. The flow of patients suffering from cancer does not stop here either on weekdays or on holidays. People have to wait their turn to be hospitalized. In the Tomsk region, the number of cancer patients is increasing every year.

A working meeting on the design of a conversion plant was held at Siberian Chemical Plant OJSC (part of the TVEL Fuel Company of Rosatom), chaired by Senior Vice President of the Fuel Company Peter Lavrenyuk. It was attended by representatives of the TVEL Fuel Company, OJSC SGChE, design institutes of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Seversk, and heads of SGChE departments.

In the building of the children's city hospital No. 2 on the street. Pushkin is adjacent to two clinics: No. 1 and No. 4. Complaints from parents of young patients about the “cramped” clinic are constantly coming in, Inna Novikova, the chief physician at Children's City Hospital No. 2, told Rush Hour reporters. According to her, two clinics in one building are a temporary situation. Already in the spring, clinic No. 4 will move to a new building on the street.

On February 7, 2013, a representative delegation of the management of TVEL OJSC and Siberian Chemical Plant OJSC (part of the TVEL Fuel Company of Rosatom) visited the construction site of the conversion plant.

Emergency on the Bakchar highway. Due to a propane leak, 2 kilometers of the road are closed. Traffic police officers had to send all transport to the north of the region through the village of Chernyshovka. The old road was specially cleared for this purpose. A propane-butane mixture leaked on February 4 late in the evening as a result of a collision between a KamAZ truck transporting gas and an OKA vehicle. All night a gas cloud hung over the accident site and there was a threat of explosion.

The decision to supply low-value river fish of small species from the Tomsk region to the Altai Territory was made at a meeting of representatives of Tomsk fishing enterprises with a delegation from the Altai Territory. According to the regional administration, the agreement was concluded between the Altai fish processing enterprise Shtil, representatives of the Parabel fish factory, the Tomsk fish hatchery complex, the regional consumer union and the regional society of hunters and fishermen.

This is how the head of the Tomsk health department, Tatyana Domnich, commented on the TV2 news agency’s complaint from Tomsk resident Bela Antonyuk about long queues at children’s clinic No. 1. As Tatyana Domnich explained, in the building of clinic No. 1 on the street. Pushkin is adjacent to two, not three, medical institutions, this is clinic No. 1 and the former children's railway hospital. “These are about five additional sites.

Today at a meeting of the Tomsk Duma, deputies decided to make changes to the General Plan of the city on the street. Elizarovykh, 82-86, where it is planned to build a Lexus Center. As the TV2 news agency was informed by the press service of the Duma, the appeal with a request to make changes was sent by the general director of ELKE-Avto LLC. Within the boundaries of the territory located adjacent to the land plots on the street.

The emergency occurred the day before at 23:15 on the 7th kilometer of the Bakchar - Vysokyi Yar road. According to the traffic police press service, the leak of the propane-butane mixture occurred as a result of a collision between a KamAZ truck transporting propane and an Oka car. “After the collision, a truck with a tank trailer slid into the left ditch and overturned. There was a leak of the propane-butane mixture, which was transported in a KamAZ tank trailer.

Tomskenergosbyt opened a resource center that allows you to clearly show how you can save energy resources in your own apartment, apartment building, budgetary or commercial organization for representatives of small and medium-sized businesses, chairmen of homeowners associations, management specialists and ordinary residents of the region. The first guests of the center who became acquainted with energy saving at the household level were 6th grade students from one of the Tomsk gymnasiums.