Today, July 17, marks the 20th anniversary of the tragedy that claimed the lives of 12 cadets of the Tomsk Higher Military Command School of Communications. At 5:50 on July 17, 1997, shortly before the cadets were to rise, one of the barracks’ ceilings collapsed. The cause of the building's collapse was a construction defect. There were about 150 people in the building at the time. 12 people died under the rubble, and another 54 cadets received injuries of varying severity.

There are 9.2 thousand people on the drug treatment register in the Tomsk region, including 5.5 thousand (almost 60% of the total) with alcohol dependence syndrome. 1.3 thousand (15%) each have drug dependence syndrome and a diagnosis of “alcohol use with harmful consequences.” Such data was announced by the deputy head physician of the Tomsk regional drug dispensary, Roman Sviridenko, at a meeting of the regional anti-drug commission.

Last Saturday, rescuers from the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Lisa Alert detachment found an elderly mushroom picker who had gotten lost in the area of ​​the 86th block. Photo: Lisa Alert Natalya Beresnevich, senior information group of the search and rescue squad "Lisa Alert - Tomsk", told TV2 about the details of this search.

The regional Duma is preparing for the second reading a draft law on the legalization of “squatter settlements” that appeared on the outskirts of Tomsk back in Soviet times and have not yet been legalized. Currently, about five thousand families live in the villages of 2nd LPK, Nizhny warehouse, Meat processing plant, Match factory, Ust-Kerepet, Ust-Kirgizka, Staro-Karyerny, Kashtak, as well as in the area of ​​the Moscow highway.

The Ministry of Health is exploring the idea of ​​including in the Strategy for the Development of a Healthy Lifestyle of the Population a provision on introducing a ban on the sale of alcohol on weekends. RBC writes about this with reference to the State Research Center for Preventive Medicine (GNICPM) of the Ministry of Health, which is developing this Strategy.

1997 July 17. The tragedy at the Tomsk School of Communications occurred early in the morning. At 5:50 a.m., the ceilings of three floors collapsed in one of the barracks. This happened a few minutes before the rise. 93 3rd and 4th year cadets were sleeping in the barracks; the guys were getting ready to leave for the holidays in a few days. More than 40 people were injured. 8 cadets died under the rubble of the building, and four more died from injuries in the hospital.

In the Tomsk region, the number of illegal logging has decreased by a third, said Deputy Governor for Agro-Industrial Policy and Environmental Management Andrei Knorr. “We are constantly improving the system of combating illegal timber trafficking, increasing interdepartmental cooperation in order to achieve decriminalization of the industry,” said Andrei Knorr, opening the commission meeting.

In the Tomsk region, the average old-age insurance pension as of July 1, 2017 was 14 thousand 792 rubles. Social pension in the first half of the year averaged 9 thousand 842 rubles. Dmitry Maltsev, manager of the PFR branch in the Tomsk region, spoke about this. In the first half of the year, the department allocated over 27,081.4 million rubles for pension provision to 298 thousand 873 pensioners.

From a letter from Tomsk resident Elena to the editors of TV2: “Everything has stalled on the search for a surrogate mother.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service demanded that the Big Four mobile operators change roaming tariffs when traveling around Russia. MTS, Beeline, Megafon and TELE2 must comply with this requirement by July 28 of this year, according to the department’s website. Antimonopoly officers identified violations of the law on the protection of competition, which were expressed in the establishment of different tariffs for cellular communication services in the home region and trips around Russia.

Two residents of a house on Belaya Street were rescued by firefighters early this morning. The fire and rescue service of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations received a report of a fire in a two-story six-apartment building at 4:48 am. According to the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, after 3 minutes the first fire department arrived on the scene. By this time, the roof and vestibule of the house were engulfed in fire.

After the director of the Territorial Medical Insurance Fund of the Tomsk Region, Viktor Kozlov, left his post, Elena Denisova was appointed acting director. This is reported on the TFOMS website. She has been working in the department since 2010 and holds the position of deputy director. She will act as director until a new director is appointed. Let us remind you that at the end of June, Viktor Kozlov, who led the Foundation for almost 8 years, resigned at his own request.