“There was a breakthrough of the main water line near the Novotroitsky hamlet, Novorossiysk, Gelendzhik and Krymsky district, with a population of more than 160 thousand people, fell into the disconnection zone,” the ministry said.

It is specified that about 6.5 thousand residential buildings and 48 social facilities remained without water.

On December 10, it became known that more than 20 thousand people and four socially significant facilities in Kursk were left without heat and hot water due to an accident on the main pipeline.