Dozens of apartments knocked out the glass after the explosion of ice

Dozens of apartments in Kazakhstan's Semey (formerly Semipalatinsk) were left without glass due to blasting operations on the Irtysh. Local residents took a at the time of the autopsy of the longest river in the world.

"Something was being done on the river, a helicopter was flying, and I went to the window to look at it, at that time there was an explosion on the river, and a glass wave was knocked out by the shock wave in the windows." The glasses flew in different directions. the words of an eyewitness of the "Semei City".

The detonation of 600 kilograms of explosives was a surprise for most of the locals, who simply could not be warned because of the rush. The fact is that the day before, an unauthorized discharge of water was made at Shulbinskaya HPP, as a result, the Polkovnichiy Island almost completely went under water (its inhabitants were urgently evacuated and placed in hotels), and 11 rural districts were in the flood zone.

By the morning of Thursday in the Zaton part of the city the water rose to the level of 525 centimeters, while the critical - 450 centimeters. The local leadership decided to blow up the ice, so that the big water went downstream.
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