ORENBURG, April 14. /TASS/. Around 1,000 households and 2,000 personal plots were flooded in Russia’s Orenburg over the past 24 hours, First Deputy Head of the Orenburg administration Alexey Kudinov told reporters.

"We are detecting the flooding of new territories. In total, another 1,000 households were flooded within 24 hours <…> and almost 2,000 plots," he noted.

Over the past 12 hours, the water level in the Ural River in Orenburg has not changed and reached 1,187 cm.