Fires, floods and foul air: in Russian Siberia’s Tyumen, weather disasters turn Biblical

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Tyumen, one of Siberia’s largest cities, made national headlines in July when flooding along the local Tura River began to resemble scenes of a biblical plague.

Unusually heavy rain fell nearly every day in June and July, pushing the river to 8.96 meters by early August, just below the 9.15-meter record set in 1979. As the water rose, local residents complained of an unbearable stench coming from the river and reported seeing scores of dead fish washed ashore. “I suffocate every night and have to shut the windows,” Tyumen resident Svetlana told the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty news agency.

“Once I ran out to the street at 1 a.m. looking for a place to breathe. I live across the river and the smell here is worse than anywhere else in the city,” she told the outlet in July, when daytime temperatures in Tyumen soared to a record-breaking 30 degrees Celsius. “I found some air downtown, away from the river, where I sat on a bench and walked to catch my breath.”

At the same time, record heat and wildfires have gripped the Tyumen region’s Arctic north, illustrating what one environmental expert described as increasingly severe and sharply contrasting weather extremes driven by climate change.

Tap water in the city of more than 800,000 people, much of which is sourced from the Tura, also began to smell of sewage and rotten eggs. Some residents reported developing rashes and symptoms of food poisoning after using it for cooking and basic hygiene.

Regional authorities declared a state of emergency in Tyumen and the surrounding district on July 28, nearly two weeks after the complaints about water quality first appeared in local media.

Though state consumer protection watchdog Rospotrebnadzor said that the smell and taste of Tyumen’s tap water complied with all safety requirements, it nevertheless advised residents to boil the water before drinking it or switch to bottled water. Last week, authorities said that utility services collected nearly 1 metric ton of dead fish in just two days of an ongoing cleanup along the Tura’s banks.

“The main reason for this disaster was the low concentration of oxygen in the water,” a Russian environmental analyst told The Moscow Times, speaking on condition of anonymity for safety reasons.

Though spring floods are common in the Tyumen region, prolonged summer flooding of vast vegetated areas has “never happened in the historical record of meteorological observations,” the expert said.

“This vegetation … was underwater for a long time, for almost two months. As a result, oxidation processes began and the oxygen in the water disappeared due to the rotting of this organic matter. The fish had nothing to breathe,” they said, adding that waste from local factories may have further degraded the floodwater.

Tyumen lies on the West Siberian Plain in a region that has one of the most complex administrative divisions in Russia, with two vast, resource-rich indigenous federal subjects, the Yamalo-Nenets and Khanty-Mansi autonomous districts, incorporated into the wider Tyumen region. Together, the three areas have a population of nearly 4 million spread across a territory roughly the size of Mongolia. Fueled by record temperatures and dry thunderstorms, the fires had engulfed more than 37,000 hectares of virgin taiga forest in the southern part of the district. Russia experienced its hottest July since records began in 1891, a result that meteorologists attributed to very high temperatures in the eastern Volga region, the Urals and Siberia as western regions remained“ generally cool.”


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