Orenburg is battling rising water levels after major rivers across Russia and Kazakhstan overflowed, causing the worst flooding in the regions in almost a century.
Hundreds of houses in Orenburg were flooded overnight, the RIA news agency reported, citing deputy mayor Alexei Kudinov.
He said that the situation is expected to peak today and the waters will begin to recede in two days.
The village of Kaminskoge, in Russia’s Kurgan region, was evacuated this morning after the water level rose 1.4 meters overnight, regional governor Vadim Shumkov announced via the Telegram platform.
Kaminskoge is a settlement along the Tobol River, which also flows through the regional capital Kurgan, a city of 300,000. Shumkov stated that Kurgan may be flooded within the next few days as reported by APE-MPE.
“We can only hope that the floodwater will spread and that the ground will absorb as much as possible,” the governor said, adding that a dam was being strengthened in Kurgan.
In Kazakhstan, the Ministry of Emergency Situations announced that almost 100,000 people were displaced from their homes by the floods.
A state of emergency remains in effect in eight of Kazakhstan’s 17 provinces, the ministry added.
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