Two fatal fires occurred in the Tomsk region on December 31. The first fire occurred in the village. Baturino, Asinovsky district. In one of the apartments, the kitchen floor on an area of ​​4 square meters was burned. m. The fire was extinguished in eight minutes; two people and one piece of equipment participated in the extinguishing, according to the report of the regional Ministry of Emergency Situations.

Tomsk residents saw a ten-minute fireworks display on Novo-Sobornaya Square on New Year's Eve. The fireworks were sponsored by the Tomsk Beer company. As company representative Maria Bondarenko noted earlier, the fireworks will be completely new. Tomsk residents saw such products as “brocade cows”, “shimmering waterfalls”, “giant chrysanthemums”, “silver spheres”, “shining stars”, “dizzying cascades of sparks”.

Temperature fluctuations and snow are expected in Tomsk in early January, the Tomsk Hydrometeorological Center reported to TV2. The average temperature will be -15°C...-21°C, which is 1-2 degrees above normal. According to the head of the meteorology department, Svetlana Ryukhtina, there will be no severe frosts, but the temperature will fluctuate. At night it will be from -17°С... -22°С to -10°С...-15°С, in some places -27°С.

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The All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) published the results of a survey on what Russians would ask Santa Claus for a New Year's gift. According to the results, 37% of Russians would like to ask themselves and their relatives for health. The next most popular wish was the wish for world peace - 10%. In third place is material well-being, which 9% of respondents (usually young people aged 17 to 24) would ask for. In fourth place was the apartment.

2018 How photographers from the TV2 News Agency saw him. In the village of Nagorny Ishtan, Tomsk region, due to a bank collapse, residents’ houses and a church from the late 19th century were in the danger zone . The only wooden church in the Tomsk region, built in the pseudo-Russian style. A historical monument protected by the state. Also a local celebrity. Andrei Konchalovsky filmed the film “Siberiada” in Nagorny Ishtan. "Pryamushka" in Ust-Chay .

On January 1, a large number of innovations in Russian laws come into force. Let us introduce you to the most important of them, which will affect the majority of Russians. Hello new retirement age A high-profile law on raising the retirement age comes into force, increasing the retirement age to 65 for men and 60 for women. Earlier, the Cabinet of Ministers of the Russian Federation approved a gradual increase in the retirement age for women to 63 years and for men to 65 years.

An emergency power outage occurred on the city's networks. Houses on Novosibirskaya, Suvorov, Michurin and Ivan Chernykh streets were left without electricity. Photo: Pavel Kryzhevich, Region 70 According to Tomsk residents, the power outage occurred on the night of January 1-2. “I got through to Gorseti. They said it was an emergency shutdown. The brigade left about 30 minutes ago,” Lyudmila Yurkevich wrote in the Region 70 group.

The TV2 editors received an open letter from Tomsk resident Eleanor Ruder. In her message to the mayor and governor, the woman complains about the tariff increase and proposes to expand the list of existing benefits.