A special report 04.06.2001 (2001)

Title of the program: "VseLensk Flood".

Critical situation with the spring flood: the Siberian city of Lensk has been practically wiped off the face of the earth and, according to experts, cannot be restored to its original location.

How exactly will the city be restored?

What is the fate of its residents?

How is the work to save property going?

The program will answer these and many other questions in cooperation with the Emergencies Ministry employees who are taking an active part in the rescue operation." Video: A woman in the car cabin reads messages from a piece of paper through a loudspeaker.

A panorama of wooden houses and buildings flooded and destroyed by the flood.

Cars and people on the road.

A woman who suffered from the flood talks about a meeting with President Putin V.V. Dishes saved from the house lie on the ground.

A woman who suffered from the flood talks about the current situation.

Tourist tents and clothes drying on a rope.

A wooden house tilted by the flood.

People who suffered from the elements stand in the yard.

A woman wipes the house number with a rag.

A rescuer points to a house that was carried away by the flood.

A view from the car window of twisted and destroyed houses.

The correspondent talks to a local man about the water level that was during the flood.

The correspondent shows the marks made by the water on the walls and shutters of a wooden house.

The correspondent shows the marks made by water on a billboard in a city park.

The correspondent shows marks made by water on a two-story house.

A view of houses flooded by water.

The correspondent talks to a local man looking at the damaged houses and discussing them.

A woman is in the car, reading messages from a sheet of paper through a loudspeaker.

A UAZ police car on the street, boards and leaning houses.

The victims in the lobby of the administration building talk about the consequences of the flood.

Girls at computers register the victims.

A woman with a child in her arms stands in line to register damage.

Documents and birth certificates next to a computer.

Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich, Shoigu Sergei Kuzhugetovich talk to the victims of the flood, walk along the street.

A man is sitting on the roof of a house.

The victims in the lobby of the administration building stand in line to register, show their passports.

A woman talks about registration and the flood.

A door with a sign "Headquarters of the flood commission".

People in the hall at a meeting of the flood commission.

A man with a bandaged arm talks on the phone.

Map of the city of Lensk.

Leonid Ilyakhin, Deputy Head of Administration, standing by the map points to the places of traffic jams during the flood, shows the places of ice floes accumulation on the diagram.

Helicopter view of the Lena River and taiga.

Concrete structures on the bank.

Tourist tent and things near the fence.

Map with the image of the Lena River.

Helicopter view of the Lena River, taiga, consequences of the flood, flooded houses and villages.

Leonid Ilyakhin, Deputy Head of Administration, talks about the round-the-clock work to eliminate the consequences of the flood.

Farmer Pavlovsky says that he managed to save the compound feed from the flood.

Helicopter view of a cow walking along the road.

A woman is running along the road.

Rotating helicopter blades.

Sacks of compound feed in the helicopter cabin.

A woman near the pen with calves talks about saving livestock, the consequences of the flood.

Helicopter view of the Lena River, taiga, consequences of the flood, flooded houses and villages.

Farmer Pavlovsky communicates with rescuers.

Fomin Roman - the second pilot of the helicopter says that he does not know where his niece is and the damaged wooden house.

The helicopter without a tail and blades is parked at the airfield.

Kurakin Sergey - a correspondent standing near an ice block talks about the consequences of the flood.

The man says that refrigerators for food are made from ice floes, there is no electricity.

A mug and a kettle are heated on a fire.

A boy sits near a fire and pots standing on stones.

A man sits by a stove "potbelly stove" on the street.

A woman at a stall with books talks about children's literature.

The woman says that she took a book by Tolstoy, and all her books sank.

The librarian talks about the damaged books that got wet and will have to be thrown out otherwise they will rot.

People pass books to each other from the library window and stack them on the street.

Librarians show books about the city of Lensk and Yakutia, which they will save from the moisture.

The woman talks about history and social life.

Melting ice floe and a bent lamp post on the embankment.

Aleksandr Samortsev, a rescuer on the embankment, says that since 1998, people have been afraid of the Lena River.

Video: Emergencies Ministry employees plant explosives to blow up ice on the river, an explosion of ice on the river.

Leonid Ilyakhin, deputy head of the administration, talks about work to blow up ice on the river.

A map with the image of the Lena River.

Video: Flood in Lensk, a man in a boat in the yard of a wooden house, a woman in a rubber boat, houses flooded with water, victims on a bench, the roof of a house floating on the water.

Emergencies Ministry rescuers at a potbelly stove talk about their work and the consequences of the flood.

Information leaflet from the press service of the administration "We know: the city will be." In the cabin of the machine, a woman reads messages from a sheet of paper through a loudspeaker.

A dough kneading machine is working.

A woman puts dough into a mold.

A woman takes molds with baked bread out of the oven.

A woman says that they have combined two bakeries into one and are now baking bread and taking orders for graduation parties.

A woman is carrying a baking sheet with a casserole.

A UAZ police car is outside, a woman is reading out information for residents of a two-story wooden house through a loudspeaker.

Residents are listening, standing on their balconies with their clothes drying.

A barge and a hydrofoil are floating down the river.

A tent city on a vacant lot.

Young people on the embankment.

Pots are on a fire.

People are near a fire with pots.

A woman is talking about the causes of the flood and cleaning the river bottom.

A man says that fish soup from canned food and milk rice soup are cooked on a fire, a pot of soup.

Buckets of water are on the fire, a pot with the word "porridge" written on it.

The woman says that she will live and has already bought new wallpaper.

A view from the car window of houses twisted and destroyed by the flood.

A woman is reading messages from a piece of paper through a loudspeaker.