“At 17:47, a message was received about a fire at 64 A, Vernadsky Avenue, where a fire took place in one of the apartments located on the second floor of a 16-storey residential building,” the department said.
The Ministry of Emergency Situations said that "as a result of the fire, one person was injured and one person died."
Earlier it was reported that three people died in a fire in an apartment in Moscow (Zelenograd).