"To eliminate wildfires in Karelia, a helicopter and fire trains are involved, more than 600 people have been evacuated," TASS reports the press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry.
A TASS source in the emergency services specified that a natural fire is operating on an area of 800 hectares near the village of Naystenjärvi.
He approached at a distance of up to half a kilometer.
Earlier it was reported that a fire with an area of about 6 thousand hectares was extinguished in Kolyma.