In the republic there was a grandiose state of emergency. Large settlements in the east of the peninsula on Tuesday afternoon were de-energized. The causes of the incident are still unclear. "Automatic emergency response has tripped.

Electric power supply is disrupted in the Leninsky district, Kerch and Feodosiya. The number of disabled (subscribers) is specified, "- the agency" Kryminform "reported with reference to sources in emergency services of the region. Sources RIA Novosti reported also a partial power outage in the Kirov region of the republic. The total power of the accident was 118 megawatts. Later, in emergency services, it was clarified that the normal operation of the emergency control system occurred on the cable-air line "Taman-Kafa No. 3". As a result, for a short time, 104.6 thousand. inhabitants of the peninsula. As eyewitnesses have told, electricity was not almost in all Kerch. Traffic lights did not work in the city and trolley buses stopped.

Some enterprises and institutions switched to reserve power supplies: many in the Crimea had diesel generators since the Blackouts of 2014 and 2015. However, the gloom was short-lived. In just 15 minutes, the electricity supply was restored in full. Specialists simply turned off the switch and went to check the network to find the cause of the automatic operation. The causes of the incident are established. It is possible that the traffic jams were knocked out due to the deterioration of weather conditions. The southern cyclone brought to the peninsula snowfalls, snowstorm, ice and ice, which are accompanied by a strong wind. In many settlements in the southern part of the republic snow fell for the first time during the winter.

In recent weeks in the Crimea is not the first time there is a de-energization of settlements. Last night, due to a strong wind without light, there were 28 settlements in the Crimea, in which there are 11,2 thousand. human. At the end of January, three villages in the Dzhankoysky district were left without electricity due to a wire break after the power lines were heavily icy. The situation with the power outages was aggravated by the fact that in the steppe regions of the country the air temperature dropped to an anomalous minus of 15 degrees.