A businessman from Siberian Ust-Kuta Alexei Tupitsin sent NT photos of today's reality Ust-Kut, a city of 510 km on a core from Irkutsk, stands at the merger of the rivers Lena and Kuta. “Around the city, large areas of the forest have burned out, but they are not allowed there now, the roads are blocked,” writes Alexei. -The river is closed, the ships are immediately behind the village of Verkhne-Markovo, Ust-Kutsky district. People are afraid to go outside, since there is nothing to breathe.