In Vladivostok, more than 24.5 thousand people were left without electricity

In the Pervomaisky district of Vladivostok, more than 24.5 thousand people were left without electricity due to an emergency outage at the Ulysses substation, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Primorsky Territory.25.mchs reported.

Without electricity left 142 apartment and six private houses, as well as six socially significant facilities. The Ministry of Emergency Situations linked the shutdown with the passage of a “complex of dangerous meteorological phenomena”.

Power engineers conduct emergency recovery work. The timing of the renewal of electricity in the message of the Ministry is not specified.

Forecasters previously warned that on October 13, Primorye will be under the influence of atmospheric fronts, which will bring rain and cooling. In Vladivostok predicted rain and strong wind, and the next day – a drop in temperature to plus 10 degrees.

Large-scale power outage in Vladivostok occurred on September 19. Then, because of the accident on the networks of the substation “2 River” without electricity were more than 20 thousand residents of Pervorechensky district, said the Prosecutor’s office of Primorsky Krai.

Another power grid accident occurred in the city on August 10. It left more than 16,000 residents without electricity, according to the regional prosecutor's office.