“There has not been such a flood in the Kolyma and Ust-Srednekansk reservoirs since 1939. On the morning of August 6, the flow of water amounted to 11 thousand cubic meters per second. Such a maximum happens once every hundred years, ”TASS quoted Larisa Malkova, the head of the water resources department for the region of the Lena Basin Water Department of Rosvodresursy.

Malkova noted that the flood situation remains very difficult.

Earlier it was reported that the authorities of the Khabarovsk Territory decided to extend the emergency mode to all areas of the region due to floods.