The water level in Orenburg has risen dangerously in recent days, reaching 11 meters and 29 centimeters, exceeding the critical limit of 11 meters.
Water levels are also rising rapidly in another Russian region, Kurgan, and in neighboring Kazakhstan authorities said 100,000 people have so far been evacuated as the sharp rise in temperatures led to the melting of large volumes of snow and ice and caused local flooding of water and mud.
Houses are floating down the river, and the authorities are trying to fill the dam with sand: the situation with floods in Russia is gaining momentum
In Orenburg, the water level has exceeded the critical mark by 2 meters – the city is going under water. As we wrote earlier, the… pic.twitter.com/t3TEN6Yuhi
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Regional authorities called for a mass evacuation of parts of Orenburg, home to half a million people. They reported that the level of the Ural River has reached 11 meters and 43 centimeters from 10.87 meters a day earlier and that the situation is now dangerous.
“Sirens are sounding in the city. It’s not an exercise. A mass evacuation is underway,” the city’s mayor, Sergei Shalmin, said on the Teleghram app.
“The flood situation in Orenburg is extremely dangerous. In the last ten hours, the water level in the Ural River has risen by 40 centimeters and now stands at 11.43 meters. There is danger.”
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Floods have swamped parts of Russia and Kazakhstan after Europe’s third-longest river, the Ural, burst its banks, forcing more than 100,000 people to evacuate and sparking protests against the authorities.
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The appeal to the residents
He called on residents to collect their documents, medicines and essentials and leave their homes.
The deputy mayor of Orenburg, Alexei Kudinov, said earlier that at least 360 houses and nearly 1,000 plots of land were flooded overnight. He said the situation is expected to peak today and the waters should begin receding in two days.
The village of Kaminskoge, in the Kurgan region, was also evacuated this morning after the water level rose overnight by 1.4 meters, regional governor Vadim Shumkov announced via the Telegram platform.
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Large-scale flooding in the regions of Russia: thousands of houses are already under water. -rosmedia.In the Tomsk, Kemerovo and Orenburg regions, people are being evacuated due to a sharp rise in the water level in the Tom and Ural rivers.
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Kaminskoge is a settlement along the Tobol River, which also flows through the regional capital Kurgan, a city of 300,000. Shumkov said Kurgan could be flooded within the next few days.
Russia’s Orenburg orders mass evacuation due to dangerous floods pic.twitter.com/MwF9xYSn6B
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“We can only hope that the floodwater will spread and that the ground will absorb as much as possible,” the governor said, adding that a dam was being strengthened in Kurgan.
Floods in Russia and Kazakhstan: At least 130 thousand people were displaced #Russia #floods
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According to the protothema, Kurgan is home to an important part of Russia’s military-industrial complex, a huge factory that produces infantry fighting vehicles for the army that are in high demand in Ukraine where the Russian army is attacking some areas.
There is currently no information on whether the factory, Kurganmashzavod, has been affected by the floods.
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