The fire again engulfed large forest areas in different regions of Russia. According to Kommersant, on September 21, 1,591 hectares of forest burned throughout Russia. Of these, as Kommersant writes, in the Ulyanovsk region the area of overhead forest fires amounted to 57 hectares; they were extinguished by aviation. At the same time, it started to burn strongly there over the weekend. 16 thousand people were in the danger zone, several villages were under threat of destruction.