In the Novgorod region, about two thousand people were left without electricity

"In the Novgorod region ... as a result of the consequences of the snowfall, there are 62 settlements, 1,810 people in the shutdown zone," he wrote in his Telegram channel.

It is noted that residents of Okulovsky, Moshensky and Pestovsky districts were left without electricity.

“Icing of wet snow provoked wire breakage, falling trees on power lines,” Shestakov explained.

Currently, 55 teams of 203 people are involved in the elimination of the problem.

Earlier it was reported that nine villages in the Jewish Autonomous Region were left without electricity due to heavy rainfall.