In the Leningrad region, 42.5 thousand residents were left without electricity due to a thunderstorm accompanied by hurricane winds, said the head of the region, Alexander Drozdenko.
Repair teams are restoring power supplies, Drozdenko wrote on the afternoon of July 12 on his Telegram channel. “The area of special interest is the Gatchina region and the districts of Kingisip, Luga and Lomonosov,” he said.
In total, 108 emergency teams of Rosseti Lenenergo were involved in eliminating the consequences of the hurricane.
The head of the Leningrad region urged residents not to try to restore power supplies themselves and not to get closer than 8 meters to the fallen wires.
As a result of the tornado that occurred in the Leningrad region on July 11, two women died. They were riding in the Gulf of Finland in the Lomonosov area, and according to preliminary data, they were without life jackets. He writes “Fontanka”. Due to bad weather conditions, passenger train schedules were disrupted. In St. Petersburg, falling trees damaged at least 19 cars.