SocietyMore than 650,000 people left without water in Russia’s Far East after substation outage
A failure at the Shtykovo substation in Primorsky Krai’s Shkotovsky district shut down four pumping stations and cut cold-water service to more than 650,000 people, Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry said. The outage affected thousands of homes and public facilities, with parts of Vladivostok also impacted. Restoration was expected by midnight local time; the cause remained undisclosed.
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More than 650,000 people left without water in Russia’s Far East after substation outage