The wreckage of "progress" was found at three points in Altai: "Shishkars" are advised to stay away

The fallen fragments of the M-12M progress cargo spacecraft were found at three points in the Altai Republic, including in the Lake Taurus, as well as on one of the mountain peaks, Interfax reports with reference to a source in the rescue services of the region.

According to him, as a result of the fall of debris, according to preliminary data, no one was injured. “There should not have been people in those places,” the agency’s interlocutor said. At the same time, according to him, rescuers "warn local residents so that they do not approach these wreckage, since these debris contain toxic substances."

“For our part, we will not send our specialists there, because we do not have the appropriate means of personal protective protection,” the source noted.

At the same time, the authorities of the Choysky district of Altai, where the remains of a space truck fell, report that they introduced an emergency regime. “We just held a meeting of the COMP, it was decided today to put up posts in order to prevent the local population in the fall area,” the first deputy head of the district Sergey Volodchenko said on Wednesday of RIA Novosti .

According to him, at the meeting it was also decided to introduce an emergency mode in the area. “All work on the search for debris of the Ministry of Emergencies will begin in the morning, because now, due to dark time and weather conditions, this is not possible,” he added.

And finally, the main forester of the Choysky district said that in the area of ​​the fall of "Progress" there are groups of collectors of nuts and blueberries, as well as ten logging, reports RIA "Novosti" .

Earlier, the head of the Choysky district of Altai, Alexander Borisov, said that fragments of the Progress M-12M fell in the taiga in the area where people could be . At the same time, he noted that there is no information about the victims yet "and cannot be", since already night and this area is inaccessible.

The data on whether there are victims will not be earlier than 11:00 local time (8:00 Moscow time), since they will get there either on helicopters or on wedges, he explained to RIA Novosti on Wednesday.

In the area of ​​the fall in the wreckage can be dozens of "cobblestones". The explosion was heard in 100 km

“The explosion was so power that the glass almost climbed out of the windows. I have been living here for 40 years, we are accustomed to the fact that the steps (launch vehicles) are falling, but there was never such a strong explosion,” Borisov shared. In the area of ​​the emergency, a cordon was set, employees of the Ministry of Emergencies were sent to the place, he added.

The head of the administration, closest to the tract of the Karakoksha settlement Yuri Shmyrin, also stated that the fragments of the Progress spacecraft fell in the Beigelbik tract, there may be many people - pine nuts.

"Now we will determine, posts so that the people do not penetrate. Although hazelniks, Shishkari has long been there," he said. According to Shmyrin, at the time of the fall in the wreckage there could be dozens of people: "They come from Novosibirsk, from Tomsk for a nut."

Shmyrin also added that a group of two employees of the Ministry of Emergencies has already arrived in Karakoksha from the Choi district center. But the timing of the start of the search operation has not yet been determined, it is possible that it will begin only at dawn. As he put it, now in Karakoksha there is a cloudy weather, on the street "darkness is dark", and the search operation can also complicate the rain.

At the same time, the press center of the Republican Department of the Ministry of Emergencies reported that two operational teams of rescuers were working on the spot. “There are no victims and destruction yet. We do not confirm the information that people could be at the scene,” the Ministry of Emergencies said.

Ecologists, for their part, were already alarmed by the possible negative consequences for the environment due to the fall of the fragments of the space truck into the territory of the Altai Republic.

Earlier it was reported that the progress of the M-12M "took to the international space station, in particular, green apples, lemons, oranges, onions and garlic. In addition, there were books, gifts, fuel, fuel in the tanks of the refueling system, medical equipment, laundry, personal hygiene products, as well as equipment for the scientific experiments conducted on the ISS. For the American ISS segment, including food and sanitary-hygienic products.

In turn, Roscosmos said that an emergency would not affect the vital activity of the crews of the 28/29th expeditions of the International Space Station.

As reported, on August 24, when launching the Soyuz-U launch vehicle with the transport cargo ship, the Progress M-12M occurred. "In the course of the third stage at the 325th second of the flight of the pH, according to preliminary data, there was a violation of the motor installation, which led to its emergency shutdown," the message on the website of Roscosmos said.

As a result, the transport cargo ship "Progress M-12M" was never taken to a given orbit. This is the first case in the history of the domestic manned astronautics, when the launch of the cargo ship was abolotically. Since 1978, there has been nothing like this with the "progress", experts in the field of astronautics noted.