events
At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.
Related Wikipedia articles
2012 Krasnodar Krai floods
Severe flooding in southwest Russia
The 2012 Krasnodar Krai floods were floods in southwest Russia in early July 2012, mainly in Krasnodar Krai near the coast of the Black Sea. The equivalent of five months of rain fell overnight in some southern parts of the country according to the Hydrometeorological Centre of…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Krasnodar Krai
First-level administrative division of Russia
Krasnodar Krai is a federal subject of Russia, located in the North Caucasus region in Southern Russia and is administratively a part of the Southern Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Krasnodar. The third most populous federal subject in Russia, it had a…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Russia
Country spanning Europe and Asia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world, and extends across eleven time zones, sharing land borders with fourteen countries. With over 140 million people, Russia is the most populous country…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)