The head of Khabarovsk Alexander Sokolov made a statement to the media, in which he said that the mass evacuation of residents of Khabarovsk will begin when the level of the Amur River will reach 780 cm Hydrological Service has forecast that this figure is very real. «There comes a period in which we must understand that no evacuation indispensable. It will be exactly the case. By zones of flooding volume evacuation counted, we will provide it, «- said Sokolov at a press conference. Authorities in the Region are ready for evacuation. In the Khabarovsk work temporary accommodation for 450 people, produced power at 4500 people, is preparing items for another 10000 seats. Pumps constrain constrain the water pressure in the streets of the village of Red River, Crafts Street, but with a further rise of water in the area of flooding will get 22 houses in the streets of Crafts with a population of 2.3 thousand inhabitants, on the street Kubiak — 46 houses, street Yungov — eight houses population of 222 people, and the streets Ladoga, 68 School, Industrial. «They are all at a level of 620 fall into the zone of flooding, there are now 22 pumps pump the water,» — said the mayor. According to the newspaper «Vedomosti», now the water level within the Khabarovsk at around 688 cm and rises to about an inch per hour or 20 cm per day. It is far superior to the historical maximum (642 cm). Hydrologists and meteorologists predict a further rise of water: the next day in the Amur region will continue rains. Total Khabarovsk built 10 km of new dams. Emergency rescue workers, military and local residents to urgently build up the dam to the level of 8 meters. Damage from the floods in the Khabarovsk region, according to preliminary estimates, over 1 billion rubles.
Yegor Ivanov, RIA «VladNews»