Consequences of Moscow Downpour

About 22 millimeters of heavy rain, a quarter of the mean monthly rainfall, fell in just a few hours in Moscow on Sunday, prompting authorities to issue a storm warning for Moscow and the Moscow Region.

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About 22 millimeters of heavy rain, a quarter of the mean monthly rainfall, fell in just a few hours in Moscow on Sunday, prompting authorities to issue a storm warning for Moscow and the Moscow Region.

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© Maxim Nikiforov

The North entrance hall of Moscow’s Yasenevo subway station of the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line was flooded.

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© Maxim Nikiforov

The entrance hall was closed, while the station was not affected and continued operating as usual.

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The flooded Yasenevo station of the Moscow subway.

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© Maxim Nikiforov

The emergency did not affect subway traffic.

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The flooded areas were mostly located in the capital’s Central and Western Administrative Areas. The above photo shows the consequences of heavy rainfall in the Solntsevo District.

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© Andrei Tarushkin

Consequences of heavy rainfall in Moscow.

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© RIA Novosti . Alexei Kudenko

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