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2024 Central Asian floods. In April 2024, extensive flooding impacted several regions of Kazakhstan and Russia, specifically in the Ural Mountains and Siberia. [2] Snow melt caused freshets [1] resulting in the Orsk Dam collapsing. [3] In Russia, a federal emergency was declared. [4] Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated [5][6 ...
The 2024 Central European floods are an ongoing series of flooding caused by a record heavy rainfall generated by Storm Boris, an extremely humid Genoa low. The flooding began in Austria and the Czech Republic, then spread to Poland, Romania and Slovakia, and then onwards to Germany, Hungary and Italy. As of 18 September 2024, 24 fatalities ...
The Orsk Dam collapsed in the evening of 5 April, causing evacuations. [2] Officials in the downstream city of Orsk said that the situation was rapidly worsening, and the President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev called it the country’s worst natural disaster in the last 80 years. [6] The governor of Orenburg Oblast, Denis Pasler, also ...
ORENBURG, Russia (Reuters) -Floods engulfed cities and towns across Russia and Kazakhstan on Wednesday after Europe's third-longest river burst its banks, forcing about 110,000 people to evacuate ...
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 ...
More than 300 houses and nearly 700 residential plots have been flooded in Russia's Kurgan region straddling the Tobol River near the border with Kazakhstan, Russia's emergency ministry said on ...
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Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said on Thursday the flooding “might be the biggest disaster in terms of its scale and impact in more than 80 years.” The wider Orenburg region ...