This was reported by the press service of the head of the region. 

“On behalf of the Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Gleb Nikitin, passengers who are waiting for departure more than eight hours in the daytime and more than six hours at night will receive assistance,” the message says.

It is noted that "an operational headquarters has been formed to control the situation."

The Minister of Transport of the region Pavel Savateev and the director of the Department of Tourism Development Sergey Yakovlev went to the airport.

Earlier it was reported that the Volga Transport Prosecutor's Office will take measures following the consideration of complaints from passengers flying to Moscow, but landed in Nizhny Novgorod because of the fog.

In social networks, passengers posted videos filmed in different planes, on which they were told that they were not allowed to leave the planes on the runway in Nizhny Novgorod for six to eight hours, and were not given food or water.