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In Orenburg, a city of more than half a million down river from Orsk, the peak is expected there on Wednesday, Russia's emergency ministry said. Video from Orsk showed one man wading through flood ...
Russians in the city of Orsk gathered in a rare protest Monday, calling for compensation following the collapse of a dam and subsequent flooding in the Orenburg region near the border with Kazakhstan.
A mass evacuation is underway in the Russian city of Orenburg, as severe flooding tears through parts of the country and northern Kazakhstan. “A mass evacuation is underway,” the city’s ...
The total damage from the flood in the Orenburg region is estimated to amount to around 21 billion rubles ($227 million), the regional government said Sunday. Russia’s Emergency Situations Minister Alexander Kurenkov arrived in Orsk — one of the most hard-hit cities — on Sunday to supervise rescue operations.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia has evacuated around 2,000 people from their homes in the Russian city of Orsk, Russian officials said on Saturday, a day after rising waters in the Ural river flooded ...
Over 4,000 people were evacuated from the area. The Russian government declared a federal emergency. [3] [18] There were also reports of 15 schools being flooded and three children and six adults being injured, but not severely. [18] Authorities said they expected the flood to reach its peak on 9 April before "stabilising" after 20 April. [19]
Russia’s government has declared the situation in flood-hit areas in the Orenburg region a federal emergency, state media reported. The floods, caused by rising water levels in the Ural River ...
In April 2024, extensive flooding impacted several regions of Kazakhstan and Russia, specifically in the Ural Mountains and Siberia. [2] Snow melt caused freshets [1] resulting in the Orsk Dam collapsing. [3] In Russia, a federal emergency was declared. [4] Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated, [5] including over 86,000 people in ...