Specialists from Gazprom Gas Distribution Tomsk will inspect gas equipment for safety purposes, the company’s press service reports. It is planned to assess the condition of technical equipment of more than 94 thousand consumers. This is 40.8 thousand apartments in multi-apartment buildings and more than 53.5 thousand individual households in the Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, Tomsk regions and the Altai Republic.

Thirty residents of the village of Priiskovy, Nerchinsky district, Trans-Baikal Territory, were hospitalized with suspected arsenic poisoning from the water supply, Chita.ru reports , citing the region’s Ministry of Health. Patients may develop poikiloderma, a skin disease caused by arsenic poisoning. So far, the diagnosis has been confirmed in six. Another 264 residents of the village were taken under medical supervision.

A nine-year-old child fell into a sewer manhole in the village of Kolyvan, Novosibirsk region, reports Taiga.info with reference to the local publication Gorsayt . This happened on Gololobova Street, 5, where there was an open well covered with snow. The boy was not injured and an investigation is underway. The administration told local media that the hatch is not the responsibility of the municipality.

Drone in the SEZ Tomsk Photo: Anton Kharin An unmanned vehicle was assembled in the special economic zone of Tomsk. The car was presented on January 11 . They will test it on a snowy track as part of the Winter City competition. “Winter City” is an initiative of RVC (Russian Venture Company), the Skolkovo Foundation and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives. The goal of the initiative is to develop technologies for safe control of an unmanned vehicle in Russian climatic and road conditions.

One and a half people per quota: a crush at the migration center in Tomsk. There are detainees About a thousand foreigners gathered on the first working day of 2019—January 9—at the building of the migration center at Irkutsk Trakt, 15. Migrants hoped to receive temporary residence permits (TRP), but there were not enough quotas for everyone. There was a stampede.

The anti-cafe and unusual library “Green Lamp” is closing after several years of work in Tomsk. The authors of the project report this. January 19, 2019 was announced as the last day of operation of the establishment. “There are enough reasons, but the main one is that the era of the “Green Lamp” has ended for both us and you. We learned a lot on set, and now the Lamp as a space has become more of a ballast for us than a place of opportunity.

The Sunday festive program “Old New Year” on Novo-Cathedral Square was cancelled. The festivities were to take place as part of the “Weekend on Novo-Cathedral” series - at 13:30 on the main square of the city. According to the press service of the mayor's office, the decision is due to severe cold weather and increased wind.