The governor of Kurgan, Vadim Shumkov, said in the morning on the Telegram text message service that the water level had risen by 1.4 meters. The Tobol, on which Kaminskoye is located, also flows through the city of the same name, Kurgan, where around 300,000 people live.
There could also be flooding there in the coming days, said Shumkov. “We can only hope that the flood plain expands widely and the ground absorbs as much water as possible along its path.” A dam is being strengthened in Kurgan.
Hundreds of houses submitted
In the city of Orenburg, which lies further west on the Urals, hundreds of houses were flooded overnight. The peak will probably be reached this Friday, said Deputy Mayor Alexei Kudinov, according to the state news agency RIA Novosti.
It is expected that another 800 houses will be flooded, said Deputy Governor Sergei Balykin, according to the state news agency Tass. This affects another 2,300 people. Due to the flooding, around 12,000 residential buildings and 15,000 garden plots are reportedly flooded in the Orenburg region.
In the regional capital Orenburg, which has half a million inhabitants, a water level of 11.1 meters was measured on the Ural River on Friday morning – almost two meters above the critical mark of 9.3 meters. Experts expected the flood to rise to 11.6 meters. The previous recorded high was 9.4 meters in 1942, Orenburg Governor Denis Pasler said during a video link with President Vladimir Putin on Thursday evening. Authorities expect the flooding to recede in two days.
Orenburg is located about 1,200 kilometers southeast of Moscow in the oblast of the same name. Large parts of the city, which has a population of 550,000, are already flooded. Numerous people had to leave their homes and give up their belongings.
State of emergency in Kazakhstan
The Russian oblasts of Kurgan and Orenburg border Kazakhstan, where severe flooding has also occurred. According to the Kazakhstan Ministry of Emergency Situations, almost 100,000 people were brought to safety from the floods. The state of emergency continues to apply in eight of Kazakhstan’s 17 provinces.
This year, several factors came together to trigger the unusually severe flooding. According to Russian civil protection experts, the ground was already soaked before winter. It froze under very heavy snowfalls, and then when temperatures rose rapidly in the spring, the mixture melted – accompanied by heavy rains.
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