The Buran plan is introduced due to heavy snowfall in Kazan

 (KZN.RU, December 6, Elena Chembaeva). Two-month norm of precipitation fell during a week in the capital of RT according to meteorologists, and now the snowstorm continues. The Buran plan is introduced due to heavy snowfall in Kazan. "All the enterprises which have equipment, graders, tractors, brush piles, everything should now work on the Buran operation” Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan called on the" Business Monday".

"What we are seeing today on the roads is just a natural disaster. All the utilities of the city, the entire leadership of the city are working in a non-stop condition. Today at 12 am Rustam Minnikhanov, the President of the Republic of Tatarstan held meeting of the Committee for Emergency Situations. On the south-east of the Republic such cities as Chistopol, settlements, social service agencies were left without light. Power lines are broken as matches, transmission lines supports were cut; the situation is really extraordinary. Thank God we are fighting only with snow. We had some cut-offs in Yudino, in the "Teplokontrol" region, in Mirnyi but it is not even related to weather conditions and restored in a short period", Ilsur Metshin said.

The Mayor announced that all municipal equipment works according to the Buran plan. Irek Faizullin, the Minister of Architecture, Housing, and Utilities signed a decree according to which all road construction machinery will be sent to fight against spins.

According to Ramil Mullin the Acting Deputy of the Head of the Executive Committee of Kazan, the Head of UATI the average yield of the snow removal equipment amounted to 372 units, last Monday is 415, December 4 is 440, and December 5 is 453 units. According to the Committee on Improvements last day 1,803 tones of sand-salt mixture was used, 6,363 tons of snow was removed from the streets. Currently the snow removal is in the Kirovskiy district of Kazan; it is impossible to clean roads in daily time due to difficult traffic.

Ramil Mullin noted that the sand-salt mixture used for cleaning ice does not work at the temperature below 10 degrees. "For such low temperatures we need to ensure and procure additional quantities of reagents. Despite this the whole basic technique was working, movement on main roads was organized; there were no serious emergency situations. The accident situation on the roads was under control and no higher than average numbers”, he said.

"We have to note that the road service worked inefficiently initially” Ilsur Metshin commented “do not start working seriously immediately. These issues should have been put before. This kind of weather must be met fully armed. Schemes of work, schemes of payment, schedule must be known accurately. We cope with the situation but we have to organize the work better. It is necessary to support people additionally who work on cleaning, for example organize hot meals. We have 200 tons of chemicals, we must equip machines, certainly it is not the last snowstorm. Well snow is needed. Thank God we have snow despite our fighting against it. We can take it out".