Over 1,000 people evacuated in Ussuriysk due to flooding – Kommersant
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In the flooded city of Ussuriysk in the Primorsky Territory, rescuers evacuated more than 1 thousand people, the press service of the city administration said in an operational report on the flood in Telegram. Now six districts of the city are flooded.
The press service said that the areas of Mezhdurechye, Seven Winds, the area of Soldatsky Lake, the area of \u200b\u200bthe Green Island park, the bus station area, the area between Pushkinsky and Komsomolsky bridges remain flooded. In the Mezhdurechye area, the water continues to rise, in the Pushkin Bridge area, a 50 cm drop in water is observed, the report says.
It is reported that work to restore power supply is being carried out in the area of the Chinese market, the MRO of the traffic police, as well as in the Aleksey-Nikolskaya, Borisovskaya, Putsilovskaya, Pushkinskaya territories. Water supply in the villages of Novonikolsk and Vozdvizhenka has been restored, follows from the report.
Heavy rains occurred in Primorye on August 9–11 due to typhoon Hanun. This led to a rise in the water level in the rivers and flooding. In the region flooded 4.4 thousand houses, 2 thousand people were evacuated. The largest flood recorded in Ussuriysk. By evaluation local authorities, it has become the strongest in the last ten years.
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