Floods of Russia's Tobol and Ishim rivers to peak in Tymen by April 23-25 - RIA
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- Russian Federation
The flooding of the Tobol and Ishim rivers in Russia's Tyumen region will peak by April 23-25, the RIA news agency said on Thursday, citing the emergencies ministry.
The Tobol and the Ishim are tributaries of the Irtysh, which along with its parent, the Ob, forms the world's seventh largest river.
The deluge of meltwater has forced over 110,000 people from their homes in Russia's Ural Mountains, Siberia and Kazakhstan as major rivers such as the Ural, which flows through Kazakhstan into the Caspian, overwhelmed embankments.
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