"19 settlements are partially disconnected from electricity," the press service reports.
It is specified that a total of 7,616 houses and 16,470 people were left without electricity.
Outages occurred in 5 districts: Novomalyklinsky, Tsilninsky, Ulyanovsky, Novospassky and Mainsky districts, and 2 urban districts: Novoulyanovsk, Ulyanovsk.
Earlier, the Main Directorate of the EMERCOM of Russia in the Novgorod Region said that more than 1,000 people in 68 settlements of the region were left without electricity after power lines were cut off due to snowfalls and freezing rains.
Leading employee of the Phobos weather center, Yevgeny Tishkovets, in an interview with NSN, told how the climate in Russia has changed over the past 30 years.