The most difficult flood situation is in the Orenburg region
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The flood situation continues to be the most critical in the Orenburg region: the water level in the Ural River in the regional center has risen by half a meter in a day. Authorities have announced a mass evacuation of residents and turned on sirens, and citizens are filling the central streets of Orenburg with bags of soil to stop the water. Damage to the region is estimated at at least 40 billion rubles. The regional government has instructed to urgently register ownership of unregistered flooded housing so that its inhabitants can also count on payments. Meanwhile, the Tyumen region will survive the flood with minimal damage, as it is well prepared, according to the Ministry of Construction of the Russian Federation.
All Friday at Orenburg Sirens sounded periodically. Over the course of a day, the water level in the Urals increased by half a meter and reached 11.5 m (the level of 9.3 m is considered dangerous). Authorities announced a mass evacuation of residents of several city streets and villages. “This is not a drill. The flood situation is extremely dangerous,” said Mayor Sergei Salmin, calling on residents to take documents, medicines and essentials with them.
A state of emergency of regional significance was declared in the region on April 4, and on April 7 – a state of emergency of federal significance (due to the flooding of Orsk, a city with a population of three hundred thousand, after a dam there was broken).
Mr. Salmin first called on the townspeople to evacuate on April 5, but now the residents seem to have listened to him. When water began to flood Uralskaya Street in the southern part of Orenburg, residents came out to barricade it with bags of earth. Trucks carrying soil and gravel to strengthen the embankments also headed to nearby Donguzskaya Street (about 3.5 km from Uralskaya Street) while Emergency Situations Ministry and police officers called on residents to evacuate.
“Citizens, we are leaving the flood zone,” was heard from the loudspeakers. Under one of the KamAZ trucks on Donguzskaya Street, after unloading gravel in the morning, the asphalt collapsed and the truck fell into the resulting hole, the local Ministry of Internal Affairs reported. By the evening, Governor Denis Pasler made it clear that gauging stations above Orenburg had stopped recording rising water levels in the Urals (above 11.54 m). “Of course, I would like this to shift and the situation to stabilize,” he said.
Mr. Pasler ordered urgently register ownership of unregistered flooded housing so that its inhabitants can receive “the same support measures as other victims.”
The press service of the regional government reported that about 200 thousand applications were submitted for payments in the region, and the total compensation amounted to 70.5 million rubles. 3.5 thousand people have already received (from 20 thousand to 100 thousand rubles for each). By the morning of April 12, 11.7 thousand residential buildings and 15 thousand household plots in 26 municipalities remained flooded throughout the Orenburg region.
In the regional center, 2.3 thousand houses and about 3.8 thousand household plots were flooded. Preliminary damage to the region is assessed local authorities at least 40 billion rubles. At the same time, Denis Pasler promised that citizens who completely lost their housing due to the flood would be reimbursed in full. “There are such cases – this is not flooding, this, I emphasize, is a complete loss of housing,” the governor explained.
The day before, a video supposedly from Orsk became popular in local Telegram channels: a house floating on the river drifts under a flooded bridge, and its pitched roof breaks with a crash.
According to the Ministry of Construction of the Russian Federation, 40% of flood-damaged housing in the Orenburg region cannot be restored.
The head of the department, Irek Faizullin, made it clear that we are talking about about 6 thousand buildings. The speaker of the local legislative assembly, Sergei Grachev, estimated the reserve funds of the regional budget, which can be redistributed to eliminate the consequences of the flood, at 10–11 billion rubles. The day before, the head of the Ministry of Finance, Anton Siluanov, made it clear at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin that money to eliminate the consequences of floods in the regions would also be allocated from the Russian Federation’s reserve fund. Mr. Fayzullin said that citizens who have lost their homes will receive certificates for the purchase of new ones.
Against this background, a flood with minimal damage is expected in the Tyumen region, said Irek Faizullin. He explained that this is possible due to the organized preparations for the disaster by the regional authorities, while the minister called what was happening in the Orenburg region “in fact a disaster.” Thus, Mr. Faizullin praised Tyumen for organizing temporary accommodation centers for people and increasing the “level of the dam crest.” The regional government expects flooding of a section of the federal highway P-402 in the area of the village of Abatskoye and from April 10 to 19 they are filling up to 5 km of soil there. On April 12, the authorities also began to build up the dam in the Vikulovsky district (it is planned to increase its height by 60 cm), and in the Kazansky district – by 1 m.
They continue to expect more water in the Kurgan region.
So far, the level of the Tobol River in the regional center does not exceed 4 m from the zero value of the gauging station, said Kurgan Governor Vadim Shumkov. Previously, a special aircraft from the Ministry of Emergency Situations delivered 20 water-filling dams and 26.7 thousand doses of vaccine against hepatitis A to the region. So far, about 200 residential buildings have been flooded in the region. Nevertheless, the plenipotentiary representative in the Urals Federal District, Vladimir Yakushev, appealed to residents of the Kurgan and Tyumen regions to evacuate when water enters populated areas in order to save their lives. “I know from my experience that water comes unexpectedly and, as a rule, at night,” added the plenipotentiary.
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