ROSTOV-ON-DON, November 27. /TASS/. More than 500 people, including 120 children, have been evacuated from flooded areas in Russia’s southern Rostov Region, the ministry of regional policy and mass communications of the Rostov Region said.

"In all, more than 500 people, including 120 children, have been evacuated from the flood zone. Some of them are staying at their relatives’, others - at temporary accommodation centers. <…> Rescue services have received more than 17,000 calls today alone, or about 2,000 calls an hour," the ministry quoted the deputy governor of the region, Sergey Bodryakov, as saying.

According to the local authorities, 25 settlements have been flooded. It was reported earlier that some 100,000 people in the Rostov Region have been left without power due to gale-force winds.

A cyclone swept through Russia’s Black Sea coastlines on Monday night and morning. Hurricane-force winds caused floods in the coastal areas. Crimea, the Krasnodar and Stavropol territories, the Rostov, Zaporozhye, and Kherson Regions, as well as the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics were affected. At least four people died and dozens were injured. The storm damaged numerous buildings, causing power supply and traffic problems.