Volunteers received a request that a pensioner went into the forest at about 10 a.m. near the village of Berezkino and did not return. A message appeared on social networks about the disappearance of 79-year-old Mikhail Alimov. The search and rescue team later reported that the missing person had been found alive. Employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, PSS, police and a dog handler took part in the search.

Postgraduate student of the Faculty of Geology and Geography of TSU Irina Chilchigesheva made the first large-scale landscape map of the uninhabited Medny Island in the Bering Sea. It took Irina two years to collect information, of which the girl lived on the island for one month. Photo: TSU press service Irina Chilchigesheva told the TSU press service that Medny Island, along with Bering Island, is one of the largest objects included in the Commander Archipelago.

A thyroid condition rarely comes to mind as a likely cause of poor health - traditionally it is attributed to stress. That is why, in the pursuit of success, it is so easy to forget about the health of the thyroid gland - for this it can “thank” you with a whole bunch of problems, from depression to deterioration of the condition of the skin and hair. The role of the thyroid gland cannot be underestimated - it is responsible for the metabolism and energy in every cell.

53 residents of the Tomsk region were diagnosed with coronavirus within 24 hours. 25 people have recovered. Of the newly diagnosed COVID-19 cases, 14 people are asymptomatic, 27 have signs of acute respiratory viral infection, and 12 have pneumonia. There are 34 people in observatories near Tomsk. Over the entire period, 6,583 cases of COVID-19 were identified in the Tomsk region, 5,339 recovered. In total, a cumulative total of 1,085,281 cases have been identified in the country in 85 regions.

Transport police officers stopped a car in the Tomsk region, inside of which they found a butchered elk carcass. Men who shoot an animal face up to five years in prison. On a motor boat, 36- and 40-year-old men went to the place and shot the helpless animal, says the press service of the transport police in the Siberian Federal District. – The poachers’ loot, as well as a double-barreled shotgun and ammunition found in the car, were seized.

The Siberian Botanical Garden of TSU opens its doors to visitors. On a self-guided tour, everyone will be able to see the unique collections of plants from September 19, reports the TSU press service. In order not to expose our guests to even a conditional risk of infection, mass events will not be held for now. We are opening greenhouses in the format of a self-guided tour,” said Mikhail Yamburov, director of the Siberian Botanical Garden.

The Election Commission of the Tomsk Region officially approved the results of the last vote. The chairman of the election commission of the Tomsk region, Elman Yusubov, and the chairman of the Tomsk city municipal election commission, Viktor Tishchenko, spoke about the features of this election campaign. About multi-day voting “The elections took place in all municipalities of the Tomsk region. New compositions of representative bodies of local self-government have been formed everywhere.

The famous Tomsk and Russian geologist Leonid Rikhvanov has passed away. Photo: TPU press service Leonid Rikhvanov was born in the Irkutsk region in 1945. In 1969, he graduated from TPI (now TPU) and received a diploma as a mining geologist. From that time on he worked at the university. He was a Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, a professor at the Department of Geology at the TPU School of Natural Resources Engineering.

Member of the Tomsk Russian Geographical Society Ioann Chechnev, together with Rustam Nabiev, climbed Elbrus. The para-traveller conquered the summit on his hands, without help, clinging to the snow and ice with an ice ax. This became the world's first ascent of a mountain on hands. “I don’t know how my hands withstood it. I walked 13 kilometers on them, and it's an uneven surface.

The Ministry of Finance proposed to compensate for increased budget expenses associated with the pandemic in 2021 by increasing excise taxes on cigarettes, writes RBC . To this end, the Ministry of Finance has already prepared draft amendments to the Tax Code, which provide for an increase in the excise tax rate on cigarettes, tobacco products and electronic cigarettes by 20% in 2021 compared to current rates.

A bottle of mineral water, on which traces of poison from the Novichok group were found in a German laboratory, was found in the hotel room of Alexei Navalny in Tomsk. This was announced on Instagram by the politician. “On this day, part of our team flew to Moscow, while others stayed in Tomsk to finish the video. During the flight, Alexey lost consciousness and began to choke, the plane landed urgently. Almost immediately, FBK employees who remained in Tomsk learned about what had happened.

Novaya Gazeta journalist and social activist Ilya Azar came to Tomsk for several days. Ilya tried to understand why, as a result of the last elections to the City Duma in Tomsk, the opposition took 19 out of 27 seats. What does Ilya associate with the defeat of United Russia in Tomsk? Are the authorities afraid of Smart Voting? Can the opposition take a majority in the State Duma elections?

From September 29 to October 3, the Tomsk Institute of Microsurgery will host the 18th All-Russian campaign to help children and adults with congenital and acquired defects of the face and limbs “Smile 2020”. More than 80 patients applied to participate in the campaign. Photo: http://www.microsurgeryinstitute.com/ Since 2000, as part of the “Smile” campaign, more than 1,000 children from different regions of Russia have received qualified assistance.