Some of the biggest floods in recent decades have hit a number of Russian regions in the Ural Mountains and Siberia, as well as parts of neighboring Kazakhstan, Reuters reports.
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Flood waters from melting snow have hit a wide area from Russia’s Ural Mountains to the border area with Kazakhstan, inundating at least 10,000 homes and forcing thousands to flee with their pets and few belongings.
In the Ural River, which rises in the Ural Mountains and flows into the Caspian Sea, the water level rose by several meters in a few hours at the end of last week due to snowmelt.
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Russian news agencies quoted the mayor of Orsk, Vasiliy Kozupic, as saying that the city’s other river, Yelshanka, had also overflowed its banks. Measures were taken to evacuate residents from the affected areas.
More than 6,100 people have already been evacuated from the city of 230,000, according to local authorities. Fifteen of the 40 schools were flooded.
Footage released by the Emergencies Ministry showed people wading through neck-deep water, rescuing stranded dogs, navigating flooded roads in boats and canoes.
State news agency TASS reported that six adults and three children were hospitalized in Orsk, but their condition is not life-threatening.
The agencies cited authorities as saying that water levels in the Samara River in the town of Buzuluk, further west in the Orenburg region, are also rising rapidly. Measures were taken to ensure the safety of residents.
President Vladimir Putin ordered Emergency Situations Minister Alexander Kurenkov to fly to the region. The Kremlin said on Sunday that flooding was now inevitable in the Kurgan region of the Urals and the Siberian region of Tyumen.
Putin spoke by phone with regional governors, the Kremlin announced.
In the city of Kurgan, which has a population of 310,000, authorities ordered residents of one riverside neighborhood to evacuate urgently, saying floodwaters would soon reach the city.
Orenburg Oblast Governor Denis Pasler said the flooding was the worst to hit the region since record-keeping began.
He said flooding was recorded along the 2,400-kilometer-long Ural River, which flows through the Orenburg region and then through Kazakhstan into the Caspian Sea.
Russian media cited estimates by Orenburg Oblast authorities that the cost of the flood damage at the local level is about 21 billion rubles ($227 million) and that the floodwaters will not dissipate until after April 20.
Although the floods have subsided in the rural areas of the Samara region, the rescue operation is still ongoing there, according to local emergency services. So far, more than 800 people have been evacuated, including 159 children. Two settlements are said to have been cut off by the flood waters. The situation is under control, regional authorities said.
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