The streets on the outskirts of the Russian city of Orenburg turned into waterways and people exchanged their cars for boats to get around, amid the country's worst floods in the last 70 years.
The water level in the city is expected to continue rising, reaching its peak this Wednesday (10).
Russia and Kazakhstan ordered the evacuation of more than 100,000 people from their homes after rapidly melting snow caused rivers to burst their banks.
Water flooded dozens of settlements in the Ural Mountains in Siberia. The Ural River had a dam break on Friday (5), flooding the Russian city of Orsk.
Russian Emergencies Minister Alexander Kurenkov on Tuesday (9) carried out another inspection trip to the flooded regions in the Urals and western Siberia to assess the situation on the ground.
President Vladimir Putin spoke with President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan. Tokayev said the flood was probably the worst in 80 years.
The Kremlin said Putin was being constantly updated on the situation but had no immediate plans to visit the flood zone as local and emergency authorities were doing their best to deal with the floods.
Source: CNN Brasil
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