NEWS

     Today the orthodox celebrate one of the major church holidays – Kreshchenie Gospodne, or Sacred Epiphany. This day the consecrated water washes off sins and illnesses, therefore many orthodox, despite the strong frost, direct to iordani to dip in holy water.

      With support of the Ministry of Civil Defense and Emergency situations of the Republic of Tatarstan volunteers of public charitable organization of Tatarstan “For children” together with professional photographers visited orphanage in Nizhnekamsk.

    With support of the Ministry of Civil Defense and Emergency situations of the Republic of Tatarstan a special transport has been provided for a trip of a group of the volunteers. More than 40 children were waiting for the guests from Kazan.

Today on Volga River about 11 o'clock in the morning has torn off 21 fishermen on an ice floe around settlement the Kamskoie Ustie near to the Armenian beach. The rescue operation of delivery of fishermen to coast was spent by employees of a fire brigade of the Kamskoie Ustie and rescuers from Laishevo.

Yesterday on the board of the helicopter of the aircraft of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia the group of doctors of the burn centre of Republican clinical hospital of the Ministry of Health of Republic of Tatarstan has come back from Perm.

Today employees of the Kazan branch of Center SISSV have spent spot-check for the preventive maintenance purpose of death of people on ice. During spot-check on Kazanka river groups of the people who are engaged in fishing have been revealed. As the gauging have shown, the thickness of ice on Kazanka is no more than 3-4 cm, and in places only the appeared ice cover in general has thawn.

The river Volga – from 0 to 5 cm, the river Sviyaga – ice is absent, the river Kama – to 3 cm, the river Sheshma – from 3 to 5 cm, the Karabashsky water basin – from 3 to 5 cm