A special report №1 04.06.2001 (2001)

The program is devoted to a critical flood situation in the city of Lensk.

Video chronicle: destroyed during the spring high water at Lensk.

A mobile radio installation on the streets of a ruined city.

Residents of Lensk talk about a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, examining the site of the disaster, the consequences of spring flood and its causes (synchronously).

Temporary dwellings and tents of people who have lost their homes.

People are at their house, thrown over the next street.

An employee of the Ministry of Emergency Measures talks about dozens of water-blown houses, shows a deserted embankment.

Kinds of streets of the old city and destroyed wooden houses after the descent of water.

One of the local residents tells about the maximum water level (synchronously).

Marked the level of leaving water on the shutters, walls of houses and fences.

Panorama of Chapaev street and buildings washed away with water.

Local residents talk about the devastation after the flood, show the remains of their homes.

A mobile radio installation announces the commencement of the work of the damage assessment commission.

Local residents in the building of the district administration talk about the need for an immediate survey of the destroyed housing stock for damage assessment and registration of victims (synchronously).

President of Russia Vladimir Putin during a visit to the destroyed by the flood of Lensk, next to him goes Shoigu SK.

People on the roofs of flooded houses.

Registration of victims in the building of the city administration.

Affected by the flood residents of Lensk talk about the difficulties and reasons for refusing to register (synchronously).

Meeting of the headquarters of the flood commission.

Map of flood-affected areas of the city.

The deputy head of the administration Leonid Ilyahin talks about the course of the flood and its consequences, shows the course of the floods on the map (synchronously).

Views of the island of Batamay on the Lena River (from above).

The view of one of the private courtyards, there is a tent, things are drying on the fence.

Types of flooded urban blocks and destroyed suburban settlements (from above).

Head of the farm "Kolos" Valentin Pavlovsky says about the rescue from the flood of cows.

Delivery of mixed fodder to affected farmers by helicopter.

The woman speaks about the consequences of flooding on the farm and about the surviving calves (synchronously).

Farmer Pavlovsky at the airport talking to the crew members of the helicopter.

Pilot Roman Fomin talks about his impressions of the flood and the missing niece (synchronously).

A view of an ice block on the shore of Lena.

Local residents talk about using pieces of ice blocks as a refrigerator (synchronously).

Cooking food on a street fire.

People dismantle books from a flooded and destroyed library.

Employees of the library talk about the loss of a large number of books and the inability to restore them, to save the remaining books (synchronously).

Rescuer Alexander Samortsev talks about past floods.

The explosion of ice on the Lena.

Deputy head of the administration Ilyahin talks about his participation in the undermining of ice on the river under the leadership of Samortsev (synchronously).

The removal of people on boats from flooded urban quarters.

Types of flooded city streets.

Samortsev among his colleagues at work and family members in the courtyard of the house.

Mobile radio installation on the streets of the city.

Baking bread for the residents of the city in the kitchen of the restaurant "Lena".

One of the women tells about arrangements for the baking of bread, new orders and optimism residents (synchronously).

Panorama of one of the houses with drying things on the balconies.

Panorama of a tent city for those who have lost their homes.

Children on the Lena embankment.

Cooking food at a fire in one of the food outlets.

People talk about the causes of the flood, their plans for the future (synchronously).

The cook shows the meals cooked at the food station.

View of one of the ruined streets of Lensk.