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Ice-induced fractures, a power line saboteur and a NATO tank exhibition: St Petersburg, November 3–4
After the first snowfall in the city, the number of people who have already suffered serious injuries as a result of falling on ice has increased. A walk in the yard on Dimitrova Street ended for a resident of the Frunzensky District with a broken leg requiring surgery. A man who slipped near the Kupchino metro station was diagnosed with a broken jaw, skull and concussion.
To avoid an increase in the number of injuries, the electric scooter rental service was stopped, and roads in the Leningrad Region began to be pre-treated with a reagent containing salt. Meanwhile, the authorities continue to discuss the issue of involving students in winter street cleaning. Now, as a full-time employee, I am offered 72,000 rubles a month.
Help from the younger generation can be very useful. According to weather forecasters, there will be 1.5 times more snow than usual in St. Petersburg this winter. Read about how cities will solve the problem of street cleaning in our analysis by "DP".
On October 19, the Vyborg District Court arrested Ilya Pervashov on charges of blowing up three power transmission line supports, which resulted in a large-scale power outage. When arrested, the man resisted and tried to escape. Now he is accused of sabotage at a vital public utility facility (Part 1, Article 281 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
An exhibition of military equipment of the armed forces of NATO countries and Ukraine captured in the Northern Military District was held on the territory of the historical park "Russia - My History". The audience will see 22 vehicles, including the American Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, Abrams tank, M113 armored personnel carrier, HMMWV and MaxPro Plus armored car. Smolny reported that the exhibition was created on the instructions of Governor Alexander Beglov, who was present at the opening ceremony.
The Russian Museum has warned about scammers selling tickets to the Bryullov exhibition on fake websites. Recently, a shipyard worker and a university teacher became victims of telephone scammers, each losing millions of rubles.
Our flight to Antalya was delayed for almost a day due to problems with the plane. The flight to Ufa returned to the airport due to an alarm in the luggage compartment.
A barge with a five-story building on a pontoon with a boat in Lisii Nos. The vessel washed ashore in Gorskaya Harbor after leaving the pier where it was anchored.
On Volodarsky Street, a Lada Largus flew into a ditch, overturned and crashed into a tree. Two passengers were injured, one of them a teenager.
The head of the Kurortny District Emergency Situations Department has been arrested on suspicion of bribery. According to investigators, he allegedly received about 54 thousand rubles from the owner of a pizzeria.
Paintings worth 10 million rubles were stolen from a collector's apartment in the center of St. Petersburg. The man lives in the village of Leninskoye and has not visited his apartment on Nekrasov Street for a long time.