Translated material
In Orsk, a hole was poured in a dam, in Orenburg, flood peaks are expected
By the morning of April 12, the water level in the Ural River near Orenburg increased to 11.29 meters. It is expected that the floods will reach peak values today, and then the water will decline.
According to the administration of the Orenburg region, almost twelve thousand residential buildings and more than fifteen thousand personal plots remain flooded. There are no light in four settlements, electricity is periodically disconnected in the areas of Orenburg.
In Orsk, the level of the Urals decreased to 798 centimeters. Yesterday, April 11, it finally managed to fall asleep the hole in the dam, through which the city flooded. Before that, they could not cope with her due to too high water pressure.
After the water gathering in Orsk, residents find corpses of dead animals on the streets. Live cattle in the flooded territories were obliged to vaccinate from a Siberian ulcer, and pets from rabies. Earlier, 615 agricultural animals and about a hundred horses from the hippodrome were taken out of the zones of flooding.
More than 10.7 thousand people were evacuated from the injured areas of the Orenburg region, of which about one and a half thousand are in temporary accommodation points. Residents of flooded territories are in lines for water , humanitarian aid and in the MFC for the design of one -time payments.
- The current flood in the Orenburg region is the largest in the history of observations in the region. Due to the pressure of water in Orsk, a dam broke through. The flood is assigned the status of an emergency federal nature. According to the latest data, infrastructure damage is estimated at more than 40 billion rubles.
- The evacuation of residents due to floods is carried out in several regions: in the Kurgan, Tomsk, Tyumen and Kemerovo regions. Kazakhstan also affected the flood: more than 86 thousand people were evacuated from the zones of flooding.