“At the moment, 54 houses, 1110 household plots remain flooded in the Amur region. 2394 people were evacuated, 229 of them are in temporary accommodation centers, ”the message says.

As specified, the Ministry of Social Protection of the region has already paid 5.3 million rubles to flood victims.

According to the Ministry of Transport, as a result of the flood, 11 bridges and 132 road sections were damaged.

Earlier, in four districts of the city of Svobodny of the Amur Region, servicemen of the BBO built barricades.

The authorities of the Amur region estimated the preliminary damage from crop loss due to a flood of 1.5 billion rubles.

Former vice-chairman of the State Duma on environmental issues, a professor at the Department of System Ecology of the RUDN University, Doctor of Technical Sciences Vladimir Tetelmin, in an interview with Vzglyad, called for the construction of flood dams in conjunction with a hydropower station.