The Minister of Culture of Tajikistan Republic expressed his gratitude to Tomsk State Pedagogical University personally to V.V. Obukhov for training a highly qualified professionals in the field of culture and also for assistance in organization of an exhibition for tajikistan young artists, pupils of the member of Russian Artists Association G.G. Stepan.
Exhibition of young artists' paintings from Tajikistan took place in Tomsk last autumn. Active participation in organization of the event took the Director of TSPU Institute of Eurasian Cooperation, students and staff members of the Faculty of Culture and Arts and pupils of TSPU International Euro-Asian Adaptive Educational Center.
Professor of Tomsk State Pedagogical University Sergey Dmitrievich Odintsov is named one of the most authoritative scientists of the world in 2015 according to the version of leading informational company Thomson Reuters.
Rating was composed on the basis of information and analysis of scientists' citation in 21 scientific fields since 2003 to 2013. Analysts estimated more than 120 thousands of articles.
The list includes only three representatives of Russia, among whom theoretical physicist, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical sciences, TSPU Professor S.D. Odintsov.
In Estonian city Otepää where Winter Triathlon European Championships took place. As a part of national team Olga Parfinenko, TSPU Physical Education and Sports Faculty graduate won the champion title. Being a on ski racing, international level master of sports on triathlon the athlete became the best in Europe the second year in succession.
In total during the competition Russian National Team won 9 medals — 5 gold, 3 silver and 1 bronze.
TSPU signed an Erasmus + agreement on academic mobility with the University Of Wroclaw, Poland and the University of Palacký in Olomouc, Czech Republic. Under the agreement with the universities the TSPU undergraduate and graduate students will be trained in the 2 universities, and the TSPU teachers will give lectures for Polish and Czech students.
Students of the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports won three medals at the Siberian Federal District Championship in athletics.
TSPU senior student Valery Kharitonov won the 800 meters race.
The second place in the women's 60 meters hurdles won Kirillova Anastasia.
Irina Subocheva, student of the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports took the bronze in the women's 400m.
Siberian Federal District Championships in Athletics was held in Irkutsk in the third week of January and brought together over 500 participants from ten regions of Russia. Athletes from the Tomsk region have won 19 medals.
6-7 August TSPU hosted an international conference «Siberian Cosmology Days 2015», dedicated to the contemporary problems of gravitation and cosmology. The conference brought together scientists from Spain, Italy , Bulgaria and Russia . The conference program is available at: http://sibgrav2015.tspu.edu.ru.
TSPU Students are among the five finalists of the All-Russian competition for the best student organization.
The competition took more than 160 educational institutions from 62 subjects of the Russian Federation, filed more than 400 applications in 12 categories, among which 50 finalists were selected. TSPU students are on the 5th place among all the universities.
The finals are going to be in Rostov on Don, February 6-7 as a part of the all-Russian competition «Leaders of the XXI century».
By Hirsh citation index by the January 12 2015 Tomsk State Pedagogical University is currently ranked 5th among all of the universities in Russia and 1st among Tomsk Universities.
World-wide known physicists Shin'ichi Nojiri - Professor, Director of Center for Theoretical Studies, Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe, Nagoya University, Japan, and Sergio Zerbini - Professor of the Department of Physics, University of Trento, Italy, were awarded the title of "Honorary Professor of Tomsk State Pedagogical University" by the decision of the Academic Council of Tomsk State Pedagogical University. Rector Valery Obukhov awarded honorary professors TSPU silver medals for services in education, as well as for collaboration with scientists of Pedagogical University.
Professor of TSPU Sergey Odintsov, ICREA researcher at the Institute of Space Science (IEEC / CSIC), was awarded the Medal of the Italian Society of Amaldi, General Relativity and Gravitation (SIGRAV). This prestigious award is presented every two years to the European scientists for their significant and outstanding contribution to the field of gravity physics.
Recognized scholar Odintsov is the first scientist from Siberia, who was awarded this prestigious medal. The researcher received recognition for his work on the relationship between the expansion of the universe, dark energy and modified gravity. The medal will be presented during the congress SIGRAV, which will be held on 15th – 19th September in Alessandria (Italy).
The Minister of Culture of Tajikistan Republic expressed his gratitude to Tomsk State Pedagogical University personally to V.V. Obukhov for training a highly qualified professionals in the field of culture and also for assistance in organization of an exhibition for tajikistan young artists, pupils of the member of Russian Artists Association G.G. Stepan. 
Professor of Tomsk State Pedagogical University Sergey Dmitrievich Odintsov is named one of the most authoritative scientists of the world in 2015 according to the version of leading informational company Thomson Reuters.
