The entrance to Yalta is completely blocked due to flooding

This is reported by TASS with reference to the head of the city administration Yanina Pavlenko.

“The city center is completely closed.

We closed the

entrance to the city

in the Oktyabrya area (cinema -

).

To avoid traffic jams on the highway and to clear mudflows that descend, we sent there, together with Avtodor and large construction companies, equipment to clear roads, ”she said.

Due to prolonged heavy rainfall in Yalta, the Vodopadnaya River overflowed its banks, some areas were flooded.

The city may find itself without electricity.

The authorities introduced an emergency regime, rescuers are evacuating the population.

On the night of June 18, the monthly norm of precipitation fell in Yalta and on Mount Ai-Petri.