Students and teachers of the Faculty of Economics and Management of TSPU are participating in the "Worried parents" project, which started on 20 June 2016 with the support of the Tourist Information Center of the Tomsk Administration. The project is engaged within urban tourism educational and entrepreneurial clusters. On the eve of the project's start there was a meeting of the organizing committee, which discussed the content and implementation of the project. In addition to information about the city, which is advisory in nature, applicants and parents have received free maps of the city, to explore the city, where the future students are going to study and live. Students undergoing "Tourism" educational program have prepared tours for applicants and their parents and showed the academic buildings, dormitories and departments of the University. Nikitina Irina and Natalia Gorina have written guides for parents and students so they coluld receive comprehensive information about the university, the living conditions in the hostel, places of leisure and entertainment. Irina Nikitina says: "This project is part of the educational practice. We are confident that our tour of the TSPU will help applicants make the right choice and become successful students of our University. And we, in turn, obtain skills of guide work ".

The "Worried parents" projects will run until July 15, 2016.

For appointment and visiting tours please call: 8-952-800-78-17.

Tomsk State Pedagogical University is working hard because today on June 20, started a campaign reception university. The first day of TSPU acceptance board has started fruitfully:  early in the morning applicants - graduates of schools and colleges - were waiting for TSPU experts in the halls of the University. According to the existing tradition, university staff congratulated the first applicant with souvenirs. This year's first applicant was Fakeev Basil, a graduate of the Tomsk radiomechanical vocational school number 16. The young man applied for the Faculty of Physical Culture and Sports of the Tomsk State Pedagogical University. Basil wants to connect his life with sports and higher education, obtained at the Tomsk State Pedagogical Universit is an essential step towards achieving this goal! Every day from 9.00 a.m. to 17.00 p.m. specialists of acceptance board are ready to answer questions, tell applicants about features of each of the ten faculties of the university and, of course, help with registration of necessary documents.Reception of application to the Tomsk State Pedagogical University will be proceed until 26 July for the applicants who apply on the basis of Unified State Examination results, and until July 14 for the applicants who apply on the basis of results of TSPU tests. Meetings with representatives of the admission board TSPU, as well as the application for admission to the university will be held in the main building of Tomsk State Pedagogical University (60 Kievskaya St. Tomsk, Russia, 634061). Information on various programs provided by TSPU can be found on TSPU web-site for applicatns: https://abiturient.tspu.ru.

"The feast of the people who create fests" - this is how the activists of the Student Club of Tomsk State Pedagogical University called  the closing of the eighty anniversary of TSPU student club. The event is going to be momentous: TSPU will host a several generations of activists, who have made a bright contribution to the history of the university, have been creating a festivous atmosphere, made student life interesting and rich. For 80 years Student club of TSPU have been actively working to engage students in extracurricular activities as well as contributing to the comprehensive development of young people, helping future teachers to become energetic enterprising individuals who are ready for new creative and professional achievements. It's time for a meeting of generations, kind words, congratulations and gratitudes. Alumni and guests of the university, partners, colleagues, friends, former and current employees are going to celebrate this anniversary. The celebration will be held on June 24, 2016 at 17.00 in the auditorium of the first building of TSPU (Komsomolskiy, 75) and will be organized in several steps, including lively conversations and warm memories, the long-awaited meetings and new acquaintances, returning to students life and, of course, holiday concert.

The first month of summer is about to end, which means that the Tomsk State Pedagogical University is  preparing for the start of the admission campaign 2016. Traditionally TSPU is one of the first institutions of the city, opening its doors for applicants. And this year is no exception: on Monday, June 20 starting at 9.00 a.m the acceptance board will be ready to answer any questions of school and college leavers as well as to tell future students about the features of each of the ten faculties of the university and, of course, help with registration of necessary documents. Reception of application to the Tomsk State Pedagogical University will be proceed until 26 July for the applicants who apply on the basis of Unified State Examination results, and until July 14 for the applicants who apply on the basis of results of TSPU tests. Meetings with representatives of the admission board TSPU, as well as the application for admission to the university will be held in the main building of Tomsk State Pedagogical University (60 Kievskaya St. Tomsk, Russia, 634061).

Information on various programs provided by TSPU can be found on TSPU web-site for applicatns: https:/abiturient.tspu.ru.

Department for Economic Theory of the Faculty of Economics and Management of TSPU tin cooperation with the Center of youth tourism of TSPU organized a workshop on the creation of innovative platforms for pupils and students on the basis of Semiluzhensky village. The main objective of the lesson was to study the Siberian cultural traditions. As part of the workshop students have got to know the life of people of the XVII century, have tried to create antient objects of everyday life (like poker), have put on an old Russian armor of the XIX and XX centuries. Students saw Semiluzhinsky village, as a resource for tourism and recreation destination and proposed options for further cooperation with Vladimir Ilyin - head of Semiluzhensky villalge. The result of this event was a joint project to promote the cultural and historical values and meanings of the national culture. This project - a contribution to the promotion of  Tomsk as a promising region for internal tourism.

Today we celebrate 125 birthday of Russian Soviet writer, storyteller, playwright Alexander Volkov, who completed "Mathematics" course at theTomsk Pedagogical Institute.Everyone knows Volkov's famous tale "The Wizard of Oz", but only few realize that it is written about our city Tomsk. Alexander had this idea back in 1907, when the future writer, arrived in Tomsk from Ust-Kamenogorsk (Kazakhstan), completed the training course and became student of the Tomsk Teachers' Institute (now Tomsk State Pedagogical University). After graduating and getting permission to teach in  higher primary schools, Volkov returned to his native Ust-Kamenogorsk, and became teacher in the school from which he earlier graduated. The desire to deepen the knowledge of foreign languages has motivated the author to  ranslate popular book by F. Baum "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." The result of these labors was the publication of "The Wizard of Oz" in 1939 with its own additions, taken from his student's life. During the period of three years in Tomsk, Alexander Volkov drew attention to the cultural distinctiveness of our city: original, picturesque wooden architecture attracted the attention by unique glittering ornaments. As in a fairy tale, the writer was inspired by skill and grace of Siberian craftsmen. A true Emerald City!

On 9 and 10 June 2016 the students of 723 group of the Faculty of Economics and Management of TSPU have undergone the defence of their final qualifying works.The development of domestic tourism was the main topics of the works. There were a lot of interesting ideas: Zhurova Christina  has tested a project together with the Center of youth tourism on the basis of Semiluzhensky village with the assistance of school students (high school number 6) and university students, Freyr Lyudmila has presented an interuniversity project  and confirmed its implemintation in TSU (at the Department of English Philology), she suggests further development of the project durisng her magistracy.Freyer's project - is a complete solution for the development of international cooperation between the State Pedagogical University and Tsukuba (Japan). Work of Geyer Maria is of informational purposes and is aimed for Tomsk educational institutions, this project has been tested on the basis of "Russian-German House" with the support of Germany and Tomsk Oblast Administration. Works by Vahina Maria are already used in the Center of youth tourism and can form the basis for tourism and recreational programs of regional level.Final qualifying work aimed at the development of domestic tourism in Tomsk. They reflect the identity and uniqueness of the Tomsk region and methodical provision allows involvement of travel agencies. Graduate students have prepared a large number of handouts, posters, models and prototypes. All students have presented their topics on conferences (4 articles on average). To continue their research students have expressed readiness to apply admission for the "Tourism" program of magistracy course on a competitive basis.

The team of Tomsk State Pedagogical University took part in the first championship for sports garbage picking, that was held in the Lagernyi garden of Tomsk. More than 50 participants gathered 1.1 tons of garbage from the territory of the garden within one hour. The idea of such event was borrowed from Japan during the visit of Tomsk oblast deligation in Tokyo last year, where similar tournaments have been held for more than a decade.Japanese Sports Federation for garbage picking decided to hold the first foreign champoinship in Tomsk. The organizing committee of the regional center has chosen Lagernyi garden as a place where championship will take place, because, according to them apart from being this a socially significant for the city, this area is also safe, since it was treated against ticks. According to Kenichi Mamitsuka, the president of the Japanese Federation for sports garbage picking and initiator of such events, the goal of this competition is to solve the problem of waste due to the activity of citizens.

«Tomsk is a beautiful city, but no matter how beautiful one city may be there is always garbage laying around. We see the trash - not as waste, but as an object for sports competitions. We arrived in your town just yesterday, but already realized that Tokyo and Tomsk have a common problem - cigarette butts, "- said Kenichi Mamitsuka. Before the start, he had promised to give a special prize from the Japanese federation to the team that will bring the largest number of cigarette butts, 

A total of 11 teams have participated in championship, among them were students of the Tomsk State Pedagogical University that are studying Japanese.

In June, the Tomsk State Pedagogical University has launched educational activities in the framework of the Summer School of Humanities and language, which is organized for the fourth time by the department of foreign languages of TSPU linguistics together with the management and the department of Foreign Languages of Tomsk municipal school № 18. The first day of the course was devoted to students' acquaintance with the past and present of TSPU: they have visited the museum complex of TSPU, met with representatives of the aceptance board and the staff of the University Scientific Library. Further, according to the plan of the Summer School, kids will start practical training at English language, which will be hold by senior lecturer in linguistics M. A Ohanyan and 5th-year student of the 204 group A. S. Borisova. The knowledge gained in the classroom of TSPU Summer School will come in handy in the intellectual competition "Your Game", which will be the final event of ihe Summer School.

On 6 June the expert committee has revealed the results of XVI All-Russian competition in advertising and PR «Crystal Orange». More than 2000 projects from various regions of Russia were submitted. Students, together with graduates of the Faculty of psychology, public relations and advertising have presented two projects - «The Wizard of Oz» which is associated with the positioning of Tomsk as the city with a special literary biography through popularization of works by Volkov - children's storyteller, writer, graduate of the Tomsk Teachers' Institute - and «ART-CHAOS. Garbage wind» - environmental project, whose main purpose is to draw attention to environmental problems and the problem of excessive consumption by creating art objects from the garbage. On the first stage, both projects have won the regional round of the XVI All-Russian competition of advertising and PR «Crystal Orange» and took the first places in the corresponding categories (December 2015). On the second stage projects of Tomsk State Pedagogical University have received recognition of the Expert Jury on the All-Russian level. «The Wizard of Oz» was awarded the Diploma of III degree in the category «Public relations, advertising and media technology in culture and art». The «ART-CHAOS. Garbage Wind» project has won the Grand Prix, the Laureate Diploma and became one of the three main winners of the XVI All-Russian competition in advertising and PR «Crystal Orange».