Radiant Street in the village of Prostorny is cleaned every day. Residents of the street are happy with this, but site user Alex44 is dissatisfied. He said that this street belongs to the 3rd category road, which means it needs to be cleared of snow once a month. For unknown reasons, this particular street is cleaned up every day by specialists from the “Spetsavtokhozyaistva”: they clear the snow and sprinkle it with a sand-salt mixture. "The question arises, for what?

Today at 16:00 the grand opening of the “Snow Fins” scuba diving competition will take place at the Aquatika sports complex. Swimmers from 14 countries will take part in the tournament this year, reports the press service of the regional administration. For the first time, athletes from Italy, Poland, Tunisia, Egypt, Venezuela, Colombia and Kyrgyzstan came to Tomsk.

Relatives of a family injured in a fire in a house on Oktyabrskaya Street are asking Tomsk residents to help with children's things. Let us remind you that the night before there was a fire in a residential two-story six-apartment wooden building at Oktyabrskaya, 18. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, five residents were evacuated from the burning house, two of them were children.

During the first month of operation of the point for issuing access codes of OJSC Rostelecom, more than 500 residents of the Tomsk region received the opportunity to use government services electronically. Currently, more than 40 thousand residents of the Tomsk region are registered on the gosuslugi.ru portal.

Today at about 12 o'clock a Toyota SUV caught fire on Baltiyskaya Street. An eyewitness to the event, Alexander, reported this to the TV2 news agency. According to him, the car was driven by a woman who could not cope with the fire on her own. Passing motorists came to her aid. “In a matter of minutes, about 30 men gathered near the car and tried to extinguish the fire with fire extinguishers and snow before firefighters arrived.

Among the dead is the 25-year-old owner of the house. Rescuers discovered their bodies while clearing the rubble of a burnt house, RIA Novosti reports, citing a representative of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. Let us remind you that a fire broke out today at five o’clock in the morning in a wooden house at 127/1 Bolshaya Kashtachnaya Street. “When firefighters arrived, the house was burning inside. The front door was padlocked,” the Ministry of Emergency Situations noted.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev proposed transferring Russians to prepay utility bills. As Interfax explains, Russians now pay for utilities until the 10th of the next month; the government has proposed postponing the payment until the 10th of the current month. According to Medvedev, this will be able to reduce consumer debts to resource supply companies.

Professor from the French National Center for Scientific Research Oleg Pokrovsky arrived at TSU on Monday. Pokrovsky has already worked with the university - he has been on expeditions to Vasyugan. A scientist is studying the impact of our marshes on the climate. Now he will head a laboratory at TSU that will engage in such research. The university received a mega-grant in the amount of 90 million rubles for such projects.

Today in the Bakcharsky district of the Tomsk region the annual regional paramilitary cross-country race “Reconnaissance” will take place. More than 100 schoolchildren from all over the region will come to the village of Parbig to compete in shooting with an air rifle and pistol, assembling and disassembling a machine gun, loading a magazine, throwing a grenade, and the speed of covering distances with different types of obstacles.

Today at 17:30 the final of the vocal competition "Golden Voice of Vietnam" will take place at the TPU MCC. According to the university’s press service, the competition is timed to coincide with International Students’ Day, which is celebrated on November 17. "The competition is being held for the fifth time and has become a good tradition. 12 finalists - TPU students from different countries - will take part in the gala concert.

Today at 19:00 a gala concert of participants of the annual “Romansiada” will be held in the Great Concert Hall of the Tomsk Philharmonic. According to the regional administration, this year 60 performers from Siberia and the Urals took part in the romance competition. “18 of them represented the Tomsk region, including the youngest vocalist of the Romansiada 2013, a nine-year-old student of the Krivosheinsk Children’s Art School, Anna Ivanenko,” the message says.

A bill has been introduced to the State Duma prohibiting Russians from using dollars. If the law is adopted, citizens of the Russian Federation will be required to close their dollar accounts in Russian banks within one year, and exchange all dollars stored on them for rubles or the currencies of other countries - euros, pounds sterling, and so on.

Experts have identified only one of the dead - the 25-year-old owner of the house. The identities of two more, a man and a woman, remain to be determined, the investigative committee reports. “Investigators from the Tomsk Investigation Department inspected the scene of the incident, ordered fire-technical and forensic examinations, and interviewed eyewitnesses,” the statement says.

In the agricultural fields outside the village of Baturino, Tomsk region, where potatoes are grown, the fertile layer of soil has disappeared. As Rush Hour reports, this land belongs to Kolpakov’s farm. This year the farmer did not use this field - part of it ended up under a pile of garbage that local residents bring here. Now, in addition to the landfill, a pit has appeared on the arable land. Unknown people removed and took away the fertile layer of soil along with clay.

A report of a fire in a one-story wooden house at 127/1 Bolshaya Kashtachnaya Street was received by the duty department at about 5 a.m. today. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the bodies of three dead were found in the house. The police are identifying them. 14 rescuers and 4 pieces of equipment worked to extinguish the fire. The house was burned inside, the ceiling and roof sheathing were burned and collapsed.