Dam in Sverdlovsk Region begins to leak
Thousands of residents in the Sverdlovsk region are on the brink of a man-made disaster. The dam, built near Alapayevsk using the latest technology and designed to hold back spring floods, has literally become a time-delay dam. It could burst at any moment, washing away dozens of villages under tons of water and concrete fragments.
The crack that appeared in the hydroelectric power station after the reconstruction is growing by the day. Repairs to the structure cost hundreds of millions of rubles. The prosecutor's office is currently investigating how this money was spent.