This story originally appeared in Vlast.kz. Over the past five years, the Ural River’s level has dropped so much that it seriously impedes river traffic. Such professions as ship-repair mechanic and ...

Thousands of Russians have been evacuated from their homes after an embankment dam broke in the southern region of Orenburg, near Kazakhstan, authorities said. The dam in the city of Orsk could not ...

When Nursultan Tauman went out for a stroll along the banks of the Ural River, he could not believe what he saw. “Dead fish, floating on the dirty river,” recalled Tauman, a native of the western ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Flood waters were rising in two cities in Russia's Ural mountains on Sunday after Europe's third-longest river burst through a dam, flooding at least 10,000 homes and forcing ...

Russians in the city of Orsk gathered in a rare protest Monday, calling for compensation following the collapse of a dam and subsequent flooding in the Orenburg region near the border with Kazakhstan.

Russian officials scrambled to help homeowners displaced by floods as water levels rose in the Ural River, authorities said Wednesday. Floods in the Orenburg region near Russia's border with ...

MOSCOW — Floods caused by rising water levels in the Ural River broke a dam in a city near Russia's border with Kazakhstan, forcing some 2,000 people to evacuate, local authorities said. The dam broke ...

MOSCOWMOSCOW — Nearly 12,000 houses have been flooded in a Russian region bordering Kazakhstan as water levels in the Ural River keep rising and threatening more deluge, authorities said Thursday. The ...

A new species of gudgeon was discovered in the Ural River of western Russia. Turbanov IS, Bolotovskiy AA, Artaev ON, Gandlin AA, Levina MA, Vasil’eva ED, Levin BA (2025) Zoosystematics and Evolution ...

Orenburg Mayor Sergey Salmin said that the city’s South Ural water intake facility was not currently jeopardized and that the water treatment facilities were operating as usual ORENBURG, April 10.

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., left, and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., arrive as the Senate holds a procedural vote on a package of wartime funding for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies, at the Capitol in ...