The innovative art center for youth «Solnechnyi» will open at TSPU on 24 May 2016. This center will be situated on the territory of TSPU academic building №8 (Karl Ilmer Street 15/1).  A standard set of equipment by FabLab will be used in the center. Specialists of the center are going organize masterclasses for pupils in robotic technology as well as lessons on various topics: 3D print, basics of programming, «School of Digital Technologies» and «Programming of Arduino robots» courses. Employees of «Solnechnyi» will also provide technical and engineering service. According to the press service of the Tomsk administration the innovative art center for youth «Solnechnyi» was financed by the city administration in December last year within the measures aimed to support business in Tomsk. It is the fourth center of this kind opened in Tomsk. Facilities of the center allow to create prototypes of items, including those one made with a use of 3D technologies, as well as to conduct milling, turning, locksmithing, soldering, electrical work. The innovative art center for youth «Solnechnyi» is an open platform that does not follow any specific, scientific or commercial  direction. It is a free environment where youngsters have an opportunity to fulfill their technical ideas, to learn and exchange experience with each other.

One of the most significant chess events – Open Chess Tournament for TSPU Cup – took place in Tomsk State Pedagogical University. The two days of the Tournament were filled with exciting professional events. The Tournament had started with the conference «Chess is the key for innovations?!” which was attended by teachers, chess coaches of Tomsk Region schools, representatives of robotics centers,  principles of Youth Sports Schools and TSPU centers, administrative centers of additional education of kids, students, postgraduate students, veteran chess players and representatives of the Tomsk Duma. The topics picked by the participants involved both general issues of chess education in educational institutions and kindergartens as well as training of professional chess players and chess coaches.

Particularly interesting was the report made by Oleg Viktorovich Chertkov, principal of Tomsk Youth Boxing School. He told about using of chess in sport training of kids with disabilities, which have been studied chess is Youth Sport School class since 2014. The guest also noticed sport achievements of these students and touched upon the subject of availability of chess classes in Tomsk.

III forum of young scientists, within the framework of which the Tournament took place, was devoted to robotics that is why the participants showed great interest in chess playing robots. There are many robotics centers in Tomsk, but only TSPU robots play intellectual games. Employees of TSPU robotics center presented the chess playing robot, created by kids. 

The organizers have prepared an unusual opening ceremony: there was a live violin music in the hall. Chess players were greeted by TSPU executives and the Tomsk Duma deputy Mahir Rustamov.

The chess tournament started on the second day and was held according to the Swiss system: 7 rounds, 15 minutes time limit for each player. 70 players participated in the tournament, among them were chess coaches, employees of educational institutions, students, pupils of TSPU chess class, veteran teachers. Special nomination was introduced for children with disabilities.

All the participants of the tournament were awarded with certificates. Prize-winners received medals and diplomas. Winners were awarded with cups, medals and diplomas.

These days TSPU is hosting 28 students from Auezov South-Kazakhstan State University. The graduate students have arrived for internship at the Department of Biology and Chemistry, Department of Philology and History, Department of Entrepreneurship and Economics and Department of Mathematics and Physics. This year besides the scientific and academic programs TSPU has prepared a number of activities in the university youth center. The internship will continue until March 25, 2016.

Last year was eventful for Tomsk State Pedagogical University: TSPU is included into the ten most popular Russian humanitarian universities; on the results of monitoring of universities' efficiency Tomsk State Pedagogical University exceeds threshold levels on all indicators; Institute of Educational System Development of Russian Academy of Education was included into the structure of University, three journals were included into the new list of HAC, and one into Russian Science Citation Index. Students of TSPU successfully presented Tomsk oblast at Festival «Students' Spring 2015» and entered three of the best, and Pedagogical band «Danko» was acknowledged the best in Russia!

Sports successes of students of Physical Culture and Sports Faculty became a great ending of the year. Sergey Lytnev, a student of TSPU, pupil at Natalya Baranova’s Olympic training center of, master of sports of Russia won a bronze medal at Russian competition on ski racing «Cup of Siberia» that took place in Novosibirsk on December 23-27, 2015.

 Also December 13, 2015 in Tumen within Russian ski competition among juniors a sprint race took place. Maxim Tolkachev, a student of Tomsk State Pedagogical University, pupil of the Natalya Baranova’s Olympic training center won this race. 

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.

14 January 2016

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. 

February 12, 2016

 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 master of sports 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. 

February 10, 2016

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. 

February 1, 2016

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.

February 1, 2016

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.ru.