Today 56 children from different districts of the Tomsk region went to the Kremlin Christmas tree in Moscow. As we were informed by the Department of Family and Children's Affairs, a group of 56 children and 14 adults took off from Tomsk this morning. At 9:30 Moscow time the plane will land in the capital. The children are accompanied by directors and teachers of orphanages, specialists from the Department of Family and Children of the Tomsk Region, as well as a pediatrician.

On December 24, Tomsk Catholics held a liturgy in honor of Christmas. The celebration began with a Christmas performance. As the rector of the Catholic church in Tomsk, Father Andrei, said, the theme of the skit changes every year. This year it was dedicated to the theme of the Great Patriotic War. “The birth of Jesus Christ is a reason for great joy, that’s why we celebrate Christmas,” explained Father Andrei. For reference : Christmas is the most solemn holiday in Catholicism.

As Irina Yartseva, head of the economics department, reported at a meeting of the City Duma, in December the budget of Tomsk received an additional 173.3 million rubles from the region. Part of these funds (30 million rubles) is planned to be used to purchase equipment for the “Special Automotive Services”, the press service of the mayor’s office clarifies.

In total, next year it is planned to gasify 14 facilities, reports the press service of the Tomsk administration. In accordance with the municipal contract, the contractor T-Engineering LLC is developing design documentation for gas supply to the villages of Anikino, Kuzovlevo, Prostorny, Timiryazevo, Shtamovo, Sputnik, Loskutovo, the village of Dzerzhinskoye and the Tomsk region, limited by the streets of Nakhimov - A. Belents - Lenin Ave. and the coastline of the river. Tom.

The largest acquisition was the Robinson R 44 helicopter. Now the machine, designed for monitoring forest fires, is being tested, the press service of the regional administration reports. In order to prevent the spread of fires on forest lands, in 2013 the Forestry Department organized a whole range of measures for fire prevention in forests.

On New Year's non-working holidays and weekends, from January 1 to January 8, 2014, unified on-duty dispatch services will operate around the clock in all municipalities of the Tomsk region.

Tomsk Roman Unashev sent a report to the “With My Own Eyes” section. “New Year’s residents appeared in fire station No. 10. The firefighters made them themselves to please both themselves and the townspeople for the holiday,” writes Roman Unashev.

A UTair Boeing had problems with its landing gear, and a Transaero airline's "door open" sign went off. Senior assistant to the Tomsk transport prosecutor Sergei Krivoshein reported this to the TV2 news agency. According to the press service of the West Siberian Transport Prosecutor's Office, at 6:30 a.m. a UTair Boeing 737 landed at the Tomsk airport, en route Moscow (Vnukovo) - Tomsk.

The city continues to accept applications for the New Year's Tomsk competition, the press service of the mayor's office reported. Every day the competition commission inspects the courtyards decorated for the New Year. Tomsk residents installed Christmas trees, snow towns, made slides and sculptures. This year the competition expanded its format and affected not only enterprises and shops, but also the courtyards of residential buildings.

On the website esquire.ru under the heading “Rules of Life in Russia”: Foreign journalists talk about how they live and work in our country. Fred Wier, chief correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor I was born in Toronto into a communist family: my grandfather was an early member of the Communist Party of Canada, all his children were communists, and my uncle, John Wier, even graduated from the International Lenin School in Moscow.

Traffic light facilities on Dalne-Klyuchevskaya will not work until 12 o’clock today, the TV2 news agency was told in the SMEU control room. “Repair work is underway at the intersections of Dalne-Klyuchevskaya Street with Mira Ave., lane. Projected, st. Bolshaya Podgornaya and lane. Pervomaisky,” the control room reported. Experts recommend drivers to be more careful in these areas.

Tomorrow the Tomskvodokanal team will repair the damage to the water line along the lane. Quiet. Due to emergency work, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. there will be no cold water supply at the following addresses: Lenin Ave., 193.195; lane Quiet, 25.25/1.25/2.27.27/1. The following will be at low pressure: st. K. Marx, 54.56, Lenin Ave. from No. 82a to No. 174 on the even sides and from No. 115 to No. 195 on the odd sides.

The prosecutor's office of the Kirovsky district of Tomsk sent a criminal case to court against a 65-year-old Tomsk woman accused of illegal possession of heroin on a large scale. As the department reported, the pensioner purchased the drug for personal use for 30,000 rubles; according to her, she has been using heroin for more than 40 years. “The accused was previously twice prosecuted for crimes in the field of drug trafficking and was released from prison in 2010,” the statement says.

Regional Library named after. A.S. Pushkina announces the start of the campaign “The Book That Changed My Life!” To become a participant in the action, you need to come to the Pushkin Library at the address: st. K. Marx, 14 and take a photo in front of a banner with a book that changed your life or influenced it in some way. Then the photo should be posted on the wall of the ProActivity group along with an essay describing the significance of this book in your life.

The aroma of Christmas tree needles, the smell of incense, the ringing of bells and Christmas carols. Catholics around the world today celebrate the main Christian holiday, Christmas. In Tomsk, several hundred people came to the Christmas service at the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Virgin Mary. The Mass, as usual, began with a Christmas scene and continued with a two-hour prayer service.