The general director of Tomskavtotrans, Sergei Svetovets, wrote a letter of resignation of his own free will and is leaving the company, Natalya Golubeva, the head of the employees’ trade union organization, told TV2. This information was also confirmed by the head of the regional transport department, Yuri Baev. “Sergei Svetovets worked his last day yesterday, he left of his own free will.

MTS announces the expansion of the geography of the first network for Internet of Things services and devices in the LTE standard based on NB-IoT (Narrow Band IoT) in the Tomsk region. The infrastructure for the operation of promising Internet of Things technologies has been deployed in Strezhevoy and Seversk. The main feature of NB-IoT compared to other standards for M2M is the increased network capacity. This means that hundreds or even thousands of sensors can be connected simultaneously.

This was the fifth stage of the All-Russian drift competition, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary. Their organizers define the championship as the main competition in the country . 35 pilots from 6 countries took part in the Krasnoyarsk stage. In addition to the Russians, riders from China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Latvia and Japan competed. Irkutsk resident Evgeniy Losev won. People and cars, speed and risk in a TV2 photo report. Spoiler: everyone is alive and well.

The Arbitration Court of the Tomsk Region terminated the bankruptcy proceedings of Beform Construction Materials Plant LLC at the request of the Federal Tax Service (FTS) of Russia due to the company’s lack of property. Interfax reports this. “The debtor received a response with an attachment of financial statements, in which he asks the authorized body to refuse the application due to the debtor’s lack of property.

A 44-year-old resident of Strezhevoy tried to get a job using a fake diploma, reports the press service of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs. A criminal case has been opened. A Strezhevka resident bought a fake diploma of secondary specialized education in Tomsk in 2001. The document cost her 30 thousand rubles. The case was opened under the third part of the article “Forgery, production or sale of counterfeit documents.” The maximum sanction of the article is up to six months in prison.

At the International Festival of Folk Crafts “Axe Festival” there will be an action of the Russian Ministry of Defense “Contract military service - your choice!” For those wishing to serve under a contract, representatives of the department will deploy a mobile selection point for the army at the event site in Zorkaltsevo park “Okolitsa”. Employees of the Ministry of Defense will advise everyone interested in places of service and conditions for concluding a military contract.

In the village of Basandaika, Tomsk region, 49 kilometers from the city, there have never been garbage containers. That is, there was no organized garbage collection. There are more than 800 people in Basandaik. They took the garbage to the outskirts of the village, while people believed that this was an officially designated dump site for them. Because the authorities should have thought through this issue over the many years of existence of the settlement.

“A short circuit occurred without subsequent combustion on the street 30 Let Pobeda. Electricians are currently working on site,” the department said. Residents of Akademgorodok found themselves without electricity due to a short circuit in the transformer booth. TV2 was told about this by the press service of the regional Ministry of Emergency Situations. In turn, the Rosseti Tomsk company said that power supply will be restored within 30 minutes.

In 2019, prosecutors in the Tomsk region identified more than 140 million rubles in wage debts owed by organizations to employees, the department’s press service reports. As of August 1, the amount of debt was 14.2 million rubles. This year, prosecutors identified debt in 27 such organizations totaling more than 140 million rubles, the department said in a statement.

The Irkutsk City Hall canceled the rally “For Fair Elections,” previously agreed upon for August 21. The authorities cited “emergency repair work” at the protest site as the reason for the cancellation. The rally organizer claims that emergency work is not being carried out there.

Olga Sotnikova, a resident of the house at Lev Tolstoy, 46, fell into a pit with hot water near the house. TomskRTS employees dug a hole for repairing heating networks. “This hole in front of the entrance is fenced with ribbons,” the girl told TV2. “You can see it during the day, but at night the excavations are not illuminated. I left the house at about 23:30, walked the usual way and suddenly realized that I was falling and my legs were burning with boiling water.

An inspection was carried out in the children's infectious diseases department of medical unit No. 2, where parents of sick children complained about unsanitary conditions. Specialists from the Tomsk Region Health Department and the Commissioner for Children’s Rights found no violations, Alena Lyzko, the mother of one of the patients, told TV2.

Scientists at Tomsk State University are developing a fertilizer based on humic substances, which will enhance the survival of crops in the risky farming zone in Siberia. The drug will stimulate root formation in plants. TASS reports this. “Many rivers of the Tomsk region form their catchment area at the expense of raised bogs rich in humic substances.