In Norilsk, due to severe cold weather, students from grades 1 to 8 were allowed not to attend school, the city administration said.
According to the Taimyr Center for Hydrometeorology, on Thursday, January 21, the temperature in the city dropped to -40 … -45 degrees.
“Due to unfavorable weather conditions, at the discretion of the parents, it is allowed not to attend classes for students of the first shift from the first to the eighth grade,” writes TASS.
The day before, the city hosted a meeting of the Committee for Emergency Situations related to the upcoming frosts. Thus, the Municipal Administration was instructed to monitor the parameters of heat supply in the residential area of Norilsk, as well as to ensure uninterrupted power supply to the communal infrastructure of the population, the public sector and medical institutions.
On January 14, it was reported that all schoolchildren in Yakutsk and the suburbs were transferred to distance learning due to freezing temperatures of -50 degrees.