“Help! We’re suffocating.” A message from Achinsk in Krasnoyarsk Territory in Siberia. Courtesy of instagram.com/ksyushenka_shapotkina and Vedomosti

Smog Has Engulfed Cities in the Urals and Siberia

Vedomosti

July 24, 2019

Nearly 2,000,000 hectares of forest are burning in Siberia and the Russian Far East. Almost no attempt is made to extinguish them since most of the fires are burning in remote areas where the cost of fighting the fires exceeds the cost of the damage they can cause [sic].

Translated by the Russian Reader. For the full album of horrifying photos of smoke-engulfed cities in the Urals and Siberia, click this link.

Ust-Ilimsk, Irkutsk Region (Siberia), Russian Federation. Courtesy of instagram.com/anastasiahaimovskaya and Vedomosti

Krasnoyarsk. Courtesy of instagram.com/nadyapinchuk and Vedomosti