ROSTOV-ON-DON. Feb 5 (Interfax-AVN) - The emergencies commission of the Southern federal district held a session here on Tuesday under the chairmanship of Viktor Anpilogov, first deputy envoy of Russian President Vladimir Putin to the district, a spokesman for the southern department on civil defense and emergencies told Interfax-Military News Agency.
Participants in the session discussed the readiness of territorial subsystems of the Unified State System of Emergencies' Prevention and Elimination to provide for flawless passage of floodwaters. The session involved leaders of regional emergency situations bodies as well as chairmen of emergencies commissions of republics, territories and regions of the federal district.
Lieutenant General Ivan Teterin, chief of the southern regional department of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, said in his report that 12 villages in five districts of the Krasnodar territory had been stricken by the recent flood. As many as 1,115 houses were flooded, and 325 of them cannot be repaired. Rescuers evacuated 3,238 people from the disaster area.
The session involved officials of the North Caucasus military district, North Caucasus district of the Interior Ministry troops and the Federal Border Guard Service. They were tasked to prepare units for staging blasts and ensuring safe passage of floodwaters, create sufficient stocks of explosives and signal means and check the readiness of waterborne vehicles.
The district holds 20,241 people, 12 helicopters, three planes, 18 demolition parties and 519 waterborne vehicles ready for elimination of emergencies' consequences. 54.5t of explosives are stocked for blasting ice jams.