Travel to all settlements restored in Primorye – Kommersant
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The road services of the Primorsky Territory restored sections of roads washed out after floods and provided access to all villages and towns in the region.
“At the moment, there are no cut off settlements in the region,” reports today, September 7, press office government of Primorye. However, on some sections of the road, passage is still possible only for highly passable vehicles, the movement of cars is difficult. Restoration work on the highways of the region continues. Previously, the number of settlements cut off from transport links as a result of flooding reached 37.
In Primorsky Krai in August, heavy rains led to large-scale flooding. On August 15, a state of emergency on a regional scale was introduced in the region. On August 25, the state of emergency was raised to the federal level.
On September 3, at a meeting chaired by the presidential envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Trutnev, declared23 municipalities were affected by floods in Primorye, 5,620 residential buildings and 10,255 household plots were flooded in 105 settlements, and 46 bridges were damaged. More than 44 thousand residents of the region suffered from the flood. The damage to the region by the authorities of Primorye was tentatively estimated at 10 billion rubles. As a result of flooding in the region died six persons.
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