“In the course of communication with the governor, the president instructed the Cabinet of Ministers to allocate additional funds to the Amur Region to provide financial assistance to citizens whose living quarters were found unsuitable for living, as well as to overhaul the damaged housing,” RIA Novosti quotes the press secretary of Russian leader Dmitry Peskov.
In mid-August, it was reported that 120 court territories remained flooded in the Amur Region.
Earlier, the government of the Amur region announced the payment of 13.7 million rubles to the flood-affected residents of the region.
In early September, the first deputy head of EMERCOM of Russia Alexander Chupriyan announced the stabilization of the flood situation in the Far East. According to him, the main efforts are aimed at strengthening and building up protective dams in the urban district of Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Continuous monitoring and modeling of the situation are also carried out.
On September 1, the Ministry of Emergency Situations announced that in the Far Eastern Federal District in four regions 85 settlements remained flooded, more than 3.3 thousand people were involved in the liquidation, 803 pieces of equipment were involved.