Russia Evacuates Almost 4,500 People After Dam Burst - The Moscow Times (https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/04/07/russia-evacuates-almost-4500-people-after-dam-burst-a84758)
Authorities said the situation was difficult throughout the region, warning of a dangerous water level on the Ural River in the main city of Orenburg.
President Vladimir Putin ordered Emergency Situations Minister Alexander Kurenkov to the region, a Kremlin spokesman said late Saturday.
Authorities also opened a criminal case for "negligence and violation of construction safety rules" over the burst dam, which was built in 2014.
Orenburg - Google Maps (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Orenburg,+Orenburg+Oblast,+Russia/@51.6068066,54.553418,7z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x417bf7b0995fd495:0xdbd8a07200d6a3!8m2!3d51.768156!4d55.0969797!16zL20vMDJmeGpx?entry=ttu)
(https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chris-Baynard/publication/263107668/figure/fig1/AS:613931873755171@1523384173963/Orenburg-study-region-the-Russian-Federation-Basemap-source-ESRI-and-National.png)
cool old city and like most old cities, sits on the river.
(https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/orenburg-russia-july-18-2020-600nw-1854459886.jpg)
WHICH AREAS ARE AFFECTED?
The worst hit areas in Russia are just to the south of the Ural Mountains, about 1,200 km (750 miles) east of Moscow.
Emergencies have been declared in the Orenburg and Kurgan regions of the Urals and in the Tyumen region in western Siberia, which is the largest hydrocarbon basin in the world.
Why are floods in Russia and Kazakhstan so bad this year? | Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/floods-russia-kazakhstan-how-bad-are-they-2024-04-10/#:~:text=This%20year%2C%20though%2C%20a%20combination,spring%20temperatures%20and%20heavy%20rains.)
covers the vast areas flooded in Russia, and the reason why. This background if you are not familiar with the region.\
Aerial video shows severe flooding in Russia (youtube.com) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJdT4iNGU78)
entire villages destroyed
Russia flooding: Anger boils over for some in Ural region | CNN (https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/09/europe/russia-urals-flooding-intl/index.html)
follow-up on the dam story I first posted.
Seems folks are royally pissed at the local Govt inaction and the corruption that led to the failure in the beginning.
Extreme flooding swamps Russia's Orenburg region (yahoo.com) (https://www.yahoo.com/news/extreme-flooding-swamps-russias-orenburg-152119099.html)
arial overview of the downstream side of the dam failure
110K displaced. Make no mistake, for that region, quite a major disaster.
There will be political repercussions, make bank on it.
Russian plant producing BMP-3 & BMD-4 IFVs faces risk of submersion (https://bulgarianmilitary.com/amp/2024/04/11/russian-plant-producing-bmp-3-bmd-4-ifvs-faces-risk-of-submersion/)
Quote from: majorhavoc on April 11, 2024, 01:34:31 PMRussian plant producing BMP-3 & BMD-4 IFVs faces risk of submersion (https://bulgarianmilitary.com/amp/2024/04/11/russian-plant-producing-bmp-3-bmd-4-ifvs-faces-risk-of-submersion/)
Well that could complicate things...
Flooded Russian city calls for mass evacuations | REUTERS (youtube.com) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elBSts7gadw)
Russia Floods Today | Russia Floods 2024 | Russia News Today | Russia Floods News | News18 Live (youtube.com) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4Y-w_a9Py8)
The bad news just gets worse.
Poor sods.