The key facts

  • The Boguchansky, Rybinsky, Sharypovsky, Nazarovsky and Ilansko-Nizhneingashsky districts were partially left without power — 15 populated localities
  • 39 people and 11 units of equipment are involved in the work
  • The timeline for restoring power supply has not been named

What happened

Five municipal districts of Krasnoyarsk Krai were partially left without power on October 28 due to adverse weather conditions. This was reported on the website of the regional branch of Russia's Emergency Ministry (EMERCOM). Emergency outages were recorded in the Boguchansky, Rybinsky, Sharypovsky, Nazarovsky and Ilansko-Nizhneingashsky districts, with the blackout affecting 15 populated localities in total.

Progress of work

According to the EMERCOM branch, crews of electricians have been dispatched to inspect the power lines: in total, 39 people and 11 units of equipment are involved. No further details, including the number of affected residents and the timeline for restoring power supply, have been received yet.

Context

Power outages were also recorded this week in other regions. On October 24, the press service of Russia's Ministry of Energy reported a partial power outage in Crimea, the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, and the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions — according to the ministry, the cause was external impact on energy infrastructure facilities. On the same day, four populated localities of the Predgorny district of Stavropol Krai were left without electricity: the head of the district, Nikolai Bondarenko, saidthat the emergency outage caused by damage to an overhead power line affected 1,208 subscribers — 3,624 people. Earlier, a mass power outage was also reported in Zabaykalsky Krai. Unlike these cases, in Krasnoyarsk Krai the cause was named as bad weather, and the scale is so far being assessed by the number of populated localities, without data on subscribers.