Emergency situation over blackouts cancelled in Kabardino-Balkaria.

NALCHIK, January 25 (Itar-Tass) -- The emergency situation regime
introduced over mass power blackouts due to broken icy wire on January 22
was cancelled in Kabardino-Balkaria on Monday midnight, chief press
officer of the main EMERCOM emergencies department in Kabardino-Balkaria
Kantemir Davydov told Itar-Tass.

"All life-supporting systems were brought back to the routine mode of
operation. All socially important facilities - schools, hospitals and
kindergartens operate as usual," Davydov said. According to him, several
dozens of private houses remain without electric power supply. "The
restoration works are underway, the electric power supply will be restored
there within a few hours," Davydov said. The repairmen eliminated hundreds
of wire breaks and repaired 1,500 meters of power lines in the North
Caucasus republic on Sunday.
Numerous power blackouts occurred on January 22 over heavy snowfalls,
frosts, icy wire and tree branches falling on it in Kabardino-Balkaria.
Nine settlements with the population of over 60,000 people remained
partially without the electric power supply. The power supply was cut at
the major republican Kishpek water intake, which caters for one-third of
Nalchik residents. The boiler houses and pumping stations remained without
the power supply. The committee for eliminating and liquidating emergency
situations has introduced the emergency situation regime in the Zolskoye,
Chegem, Baksan, Urvan districts, and the cities of Baksan and Nalchik.