Tomsk residents received the first payments for major repairs this month. The minimum tariff is 6 rubles 15 kopecks per square meter. Everyone must pay: both residents of new buildings and those who live in old houses.

Deputy Governor for Construction and Infrastructure Igor Shaturny signed a certificate of readiness of the region’s economic complex for winter. This was reported by the press service of the regional administration. According to the department, the region spent 1.32 billion rubles on preparations for the heating season. Of these, 760 million rubles were allocated for the purchase of fuel. This winter, 548 boiler houses will operate in the region.

The All-Russian Spartakiad in basketball, powerlifting, bocce and unified bocce has ended in the Sverdlovsk region . According to the press service of the mayor's office, the competition became a qualifier for the Special Olympics World Summer Games, which will be held in the USA next year. “ The Tomsk region in the form of a unified bocce program was represented by students and trainers-teachers of the children’s and youth sports boxing school.

Today, 42 units of equipment operate on the city streets: 10 sand shakers, 13 brush plows, 5 dump trucks, 8 tractors and other machines. This was reported by the press service of the mayor's office. Almost 150 people were involved in manual street cleaning. They cleared pedestrian crossings and approaches to bus stops. During the day, 692.3 tons of sand-salt mixture were consumed; in total, 4864.4 tons of the mixture have been poured to date.

The major renovation of Tomsk boarding school No. 33 for visually impaired and blind children should have been completed a year ago. But, as Rush Hour reports , the deadline for commissioning the facility has been delayed. The construction company that was renovating the building received money for part of the work performed and liquidated itself. And the director of the boarding school was convicted of extortion.

According to the press service of the city administration, today a special commission headed by Deputy Governor for the Scientific and Educational Complex Mikhail Sonkin will begin visiting the dormitories and meeting with campus activists. “The main goal of this work is to improve the environment for students in Tomsk, the conditions for their living and studying,” explained Mikhail Sonkin.

This decision was made by the Governor of the Tomsk Region Sergei Zhvachkin. The salaries of more than 34 thousand Tomsk residents will increase by 7.4%, the press service of the regional administration reported. The decree will affect those public sector workers who were not included in the “May” presidential decrees and whose salaries have until now remained at the same level. 204 million rubles will be allocated for the corresponding increase in income next year.

Missing 10-year-old Danila Kuznetsov was found the day after his disappearance. Recently, children and young people in Tomsk have been disappearing alarmingly often. The fate of 9 people is still unknown to search engines. In just one week in October, the bodies of two missing students were found. And then on Friday evening the disappearance of a 10-year-old boy became known. But, unlike most similar stories, this one had a happy ending.

The guest on the “Rush Hour” program was the psychologist of the World Relationship Center Irina Kustova. She spoke about the main reasons why children run away from home, highlighted the problems of upbringing and gave advice to parents.

On November 17, 2014, JSC Siberian Chemical Plant (part of the Rosatom fuel company TVEL) began training small group leaders and their assistants. The training will last a whole month, until December 18. 175 employees of the enterprise will be trained in the course “Development of Small Group Leaders”. The training program includes the development of leadership and communication skills, the study of the fundamentals and tools of RPS, and management functions.

A 23-year-old young man was detained by drug police at the Strezhevoy bus station, reports the press service of the regional department of the federal drug control service. The young man does not work anywhere and has no previous convictions.

Now in Tomsk you can buy river trout not only in stores. At Tomsk "Neftekhim" 1600 kg of trout were released into one of the artificial quarries. Fans of fishing and fresh fish can come to the pond and try to catch trout in person. Calculation at the exit: 400 rubles per kilogram.

User Ilya Varlamov published a post on his page livejournal.com “Where is it good to live in Russia?”: Once again I decided to look into the budgets of our cities and see how everyone lives. Last time I compared the budgets of 2012 , then Omsk became the poorest city in Russia; the city spent only 10,000 rubles per resident per year. Quite expectedly, Moscow turned out to be the richest; its budget in 2012 planned to spend 147,000 rubles per resident.

Since the beginning of October, the price of an 800-gram pack of buckwheat has almost doubled. Rush Hour correspondents went shopping and found out that at the beginning of October a pack of buckwheat could be bought for 28.5 rubles, but now the price reaches 50 rubles. “There are many people here on Berdskaya who don’t have buckwheat. Suppliers do not. Maybe an artificial shortage to raise the price.

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