MOSCOW, August 22 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed an order on Saturday giving 1 million rubles ($31,500) to the families of each of the dead and missing in Monday's Siberian hydropower plant accident.
The government press service said the order also included one-off payments of 100,000 rubles ($3,150) to each of the injured.
The money will come from the Finance Ministry's reserve funds and be distributed by the government of Khakasia, which will provide the federal government with lists of the people killed, missing and injured in the accident.
There is also a provision for up to 4 million rubles ($126,000) to be spent on sanatorium and health resort treatments for victims' relatives and injured workers, which will come from the Social Insurance Fund.
Sixty-six people are confirmed to have died in the accident, while nine people are missing and presumed dead.
The disaster occurred during repair work to one of the Sayano-Shushenskaya plant's 10 hydroelectric generators. A surge of water shattered three of the turbines and flooded much of the plant, which has been shut down since the accident.
Dam owner RusHydro has said the damage could take up to two years to repair, and Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko estimated the cost could run to at least 40 billion rubles ($1.2 billion).
