A large-scale fire broke out in the industrial zone of the city of Dzerzhinsk, Nizhnenovgorod region of Russia - a railway tank with a solvent caught fire in the open territory of the Igumnovo station.

The fire occurred at the enterprise "

“According to the Unified Duty Dispatch Service, a tank car caught fire in the area of \u200b\u200bthe 8th production site of OJSC Kaprolaktam. The fire department rushed to the scene. There is no threat to settlements and the population,” Russian media say.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia said that the preliminary area of \u200b\u200bthe fire is about 2000 meters..

Videos posted on social media show a strong fire and powerful flames rising up and black clouds of smoke..

Earlier in Russia there was a serious fire at Sakhalinskaya GRES-2. The fire occurred in the second block, no information about the causes of the incident was published..