Because of the accident on the high-voltage UES of the Far East, half a million people remained without light. The work of the whole railway communication of the region is completely paralyzed.

According to Rambler News Service, the accident occurred at the high-voltage station Amurskaya - Heihe.

The Ministry of Energy explained that the protection of the power grid was working, because of which five air high-voltage lines also stopped working. This "Bureyskaya HPP - Amurskaya", "Bureyskaya HPP - Khabarovskaya", "Amurskaya - Heihe", "Khabarovsk - Volochaevka traction" and "Khabarovsk - Left Bank".

As a result, without light there were 500 thousand people - residents of settlements of the Khabarovsk Territory and the Amur Region.