December 17, 2017 Vladivostok will remember for a long time - in huge traffic jams thousands of cars. Because of the strongest snowfall and congestion, people stood up to 12 hours. Entertained, sitting in the salons, how could. Someone started to feast, opening packages with purchased supplies, someone on the Internet complained about fate, someone asked the brothers in misfortune about the whereabouts of the nearest latrine. And then on the streets went the townspeople with thermoses and sandwiches.

The story was repeated on January 24 in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. In the morning, everything was fine, but even those who left work early, could not get home because of the strongest blizzard that began in the daytime. Snowdrifts and snowdrifts appeared right on the road between the cars that got up in traffic. Closer to the evening in the network, there were requests for help: "We ask for help! In the village of Zavoiko (remote area of ??Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. ) there is no road. People are already seven hours in traffic. In cars, children. Gasoline ends. The Ministry of Emergency Situations near dawn, deploys the rest of the cars ". Residents of the city went to the streets with thermoses, sandwiches, juice boxes. In the evening, grateful posts appeared in the networks, which ended with the words: "We are proud that we live in the same city with you! ".

Now in the Far East and Kamchatka there are several cyclones. Such frosts also did not exist for 20 years. Emergency situations are possible on January 25-26. In addition, a strong wind blows up to 30 m / s, sea waves up to 4.5 points. In the Gulf of Peter the Great on January 26, fast icing of ships is possible. In Primorye there are frosts up to -44 degrees. Sakhalin is cut off from the world - Vanino-Kholmsk ferry crosses.

In the Sea of ??Japan 200 km south of Cape Gamow on Thursday evening, an emergency radio beacon operated by the Russian fishing vessel Vostok. Communication with the ship was lost. On board the vessel "Vostok", which belonged to DV-Flot LLC (Nevelsk city of the Sakhalin region) and made the transition from the port of Donghe (Republic of Korea) to the port of Kholmsk, there were 21 people. Mi-8 helicopters of the Khabarovsk Air Rescue Center of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia and the Ministry of Defense, a marine rescue tug, a Coast Guard patrol ship, a Be-200 with 9 rescuers on board went to the place of work of the beacon. Search for the missing fishermen will be on shore.

At the location of the beacon operation, two vests, a mooring bay, a buoy and household rubbish. While the chances of finding the crew are estimated as high - people could be saved by using a life raft. In this area of ??the Sea of ??Japan, usually lively shipping. The search for fishermen goes around the clock.

Relatives of fishermen from ships operating in the area of ??disappearance of the "East" receive messages from the sea about the storm and round-the-clock struggle of crews with icing and roll of ships.