Bitter frosts in Russia’s Primorsky Territory, Far East and Siberia have created big problems.
Classes have been cancelled in many schools.
Seven houses, where 37 people live, are remaining without heating in Yakuatia’s settlement of Serebryanny Bor since January 12.
Six people have been temporarily accommodated elsewhere. Another 20 people including 9 children, have been evacuated to relatives or friends in the city of Neryurngra.
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An emergency situation has been ordered in the Neryungra region. Rescue operations involve 200 people.
The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said work is going on in four
affected houses with 56 tenants in the settlement of Artyk.
The complex ice conditions have stopped the ferry like between Vladivostiok and the Russky Island. Because of cracking frosts, the air temperature in Vladivostok on Monday is below 20 degrees Centigrade. The severest frost in Vladivostok, 30 degrees, was registered in 2001.
The heat supply was knocked out in the settlement of Yyantai in the northern Irkutsk region, leaving without heat 500 people.
The local boiler house is dead and leaving without heating two buildings with 500 people amid 40 to 50 degrees below Centigrade.
People are using any heating devices at hand, overstraining the heat supply system.
A power line accident caused by 45-degree frost has left without the energy supply over 11,000 people.
Classes have been cancelled in schools of Tuva’s capital Kyzyl and in four rural areas in the Southern Siberian republic, as well as in Burryatia’s capital Ulan-Ude, where the air temperature is 38 degrees below zero Centigrade.
Bitter frosts in Russia’s Primorsky Territory, Far East and Siberia have created big problems.
