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Fast-melting snow has caused rivers in Russia's southern Urals, western Siberia as well as northern Kazakhstan to reach record heights.

Kremlin official warns of more difficult days ahead after towns and cities overwhelmed by major rivers swollen by snowmelt

Tens of thousands have been left stranded by extreme seasonal floods worsened by two burst dams in southern Russia

The mayor of Orenburg urges thousands of residents to evacuate as the Ural River continues to swell.

Flood sirens blared out in two Russian cities on Tuesday, warning thousands more people to evacuate immediately as two major rivers swelled to bursting point in some of the worst flooding in at least 70 years. Swiftly melting snow across swathes of the Ural Mountains and Siberia has swelled some of the biggest rivers which surge across the wilds of Russia, with at least 10,500 homes recorded as flooded so far and many thousands more at risk.

Kurenkov will also visit the Kurgan and Tyumen regions in the Urals, the ministry added.

The threat of flooding in Russia’s Ural Mountains has shifted from the town of Orsk to neighboring cities and regions, authorities said Tuesday.

Russians in the city of Orsk gathered in a rare protest Monday calling for compensation following the collapse of a dam and subsequent flooding in the Orenburg region near the

MOSCOW — The Russian city of Orenburg, near the Kazakh border, braced on Monday for flooding not seen in decades, as officials evacuated locals to escape rising rivers in the Urals and western Siberia.Moscow declared a federal emergency on Sunday over floods in the Orenburg region, where the Ural river left much of the city of Orsk covered in water, forcing thousands to leave

Record floods in Urals triggered by melting snow