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The Tallinn Municipal Property Board this week launched a public procurement for the purchase of ten portable generators to ensure the continuity of Tallinn's buildings in the event of a permanent power outage. The deadline for submission of tenders is 20 January at 10am.

Tallinn's district governments have set up a total of 79 collection points across the city where old Christmas trees can be given away for free. Collected Christmas trees are not dumped in landfills, but are reused for district heating in the city's houses or to generate electricity.

The first free Museum Sunday of 2023 will take place this Sunday, 8 January. The initiative will be joined by the Nõmme Museum, located in the former station building.

Today, 4 January, the cornerstone was laid for the Kadriorg Park Economic Building (L. Koidula 34a, Tallinn). A modern building inspired by the historical orangery is under construction, part of which will be open to visitors in the future.

As of Monday, 9 January, buses of express bus line 14 will stop at the Vineeri bus stop and buses of the express bus line 46 will stop at the Humala bus stop. Bus No 59 will stop at Pikakari bus stop.

Tallinn Mayor Mihhail Kõlvart and Deputy Mayor Tanel Kiik, who visited Ukraine today, handed over 14 diesel buses as a gift to the Mayor of Zhytomyr Serhiy Sukhomlin. In the afternoon, Tallinn city leaders also handed over to the municipalities of the Zhõtomyr region electricity generators and other essential supplies sent from Tallinn.

Tallinn city district governments have created over 78 collection points for Christmas trees. The list of the collection points is available on the Tallinn city website.

A book of condolences for the former mayor of Tallinn, Edgar Savisaar, has been opened in the service hall of the Tallinn City Chancellery on Vabaduse Square.

On New Year's Eve and New Year's Night, public transport vehicles normally stopping near Vabaduse Square will be diverted to detours and the operating hours of public transport lines serving the main routes of the city will be extended.

Edgar Savisaar (31.05.1950 - 29.12.2022) was Mayor of Tallinn twice - from 2001 to 2004 and from 2007 to 2017.