8 people were saved on the Belaya river from a broken ice floe on the border of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan

7 April 2019, Sunday

At 12.15 PM (GMT) on 7 April, the control Centre in crisis situations of EMERCOM of Russia in the Republic of Tatarstan according to the "112" received a message about the separation of ice floe with fishermen on the White river near the settlement Places of Aktanysh region of Tatarstan.

As a result of clear interdepartmental interaction and reaction of forces and means of the territorial subsystem of RSES at 13.05 (MSK) all 8 people who were on the come-off ice floe at distance of 50 meters from the coast were rescued. Rescue work was carried out by the crew of the hovercraft "Mars-700" (owned by LLC "Volna", this organization serves the water area in the area of the crossing in the Republic of Bashkortostan).