Deluge of melt water overwhelms scores of settlements in Ural Mountains, Siberia and other regions with levels approaching 10m
A flooded part of the city of Orsk in Russia 's Orenburg region, southeast of the Ural Mountains. Photograph: Anatoliy Zhdanov/Kommersant Photo/AFP/ Russia Out via Gettyand Kazakhstan ordered more than 100,000 people to evacuate after swiftly melting snow swelled mighty rivers beyond bursting point in the worst flooding in the area for at least 70 years.
Downstream, water levels in Orenburg, a city of around 550,000, rose towards the critical level of 9.3m as sirens warned major floods were imminent. The water level is currently 9.14m.US is at odds with China, but Janet Yellen says things could be worse The most severely hit areas are Atyrau, Aktobe, Akmola, Kostanai, eastern Kazakhstan, northern Kazakhstan and Pavlodar regions, most of which border Russia and are crossed by rivers originating in Russia such as the Ural and the Tobol.
In Kurgan, a region with around 800,000 residents, drone footage showed traditional Russian wooden houses and the golden kupolas of Russian Orthodox Churches stranded among a vast expanse of water. “We understand you very well: It is hard to leave your possessions and move somewhere at the call of the local authorities,” Mr Shumkov said.
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