“A state of emergency has been declared throughout the city.
This gives us another tool to use forces, a mechanism for the rapid formation of payments to victims, ”he wrote on Telegram.
Kopaygorodsky added that the bad weather left destruction in all areas of the city.
“The situation is very serious.
The central region suffered the most.
In the modern history of Sochi, an incident of this magnitude has never happened in this part of the resort,” the mayor emphasized.
As previously reported by the head of Sochi, one person died as a result of a volley downpour.
Due to heavy rains, the basement floors, tracks and adjacent territories were flooded.
The water level in the Khosta, Matsesta and Kudepsta rivers has reached unfavorable levels.