"As a result of a rupture of a pipeline with a diameter of 700 mm in the Kurortny and Primorsky districts of St. Petersburg, Sestroretsk and the settlement of Lisinos, 2.6 thousand houses with a population of more than 47.5 thousand people were left without cold water supply," RIA Novosti quotes a representative of emergency services ...

It is noted that 46 socially significant objects, including a hospital for patients with coronavirus, were left without water.

The water supply has already been organized.

Emergency recovery work is scheduled to be completed by 12:00 Moscow time on October 16.

In July, it was reported that in the Tomsk region more than 600 thousand people were left without cold water due to the accident.