The last encyclopedist. In memory of Victor Loisha
There are people whose departure creates gaping voids and the air in the atmosphere becomes rarefied, as if a decent amount of oxygen had suddenly been pumped out of it. Victor Loisha is one of those. With his death, the era of Tomsk journalism - that real, highly professional, savory, deep, broad, furious, burning - ended. He was her personification. He was her soul, her air.