A dead girl in a Yakut village has been unable to be buried for six days. An investigator is unable to travel due to air travel issues.

В Yakut village Yukaghir On September 19, an 8-year-old girl died. She fell out of the rear window of a Belarus tractor, and the driver, reversing, hit her. A forensic expert's report is needed to bury the child, but one is unavailable. There is no morgue in the village, so the child's body remains in the cold house. сообщает SakhaDay.

Yukaghir can only be reached by air, but the helicopter with the investigator cannot fly from DeputyThe reason is the lack of subsidized flights in the Arctic regions, рассказал Deputy Il Tumen Basil Николаев.  

"The forensic expert wasn't sent from Yakutsk because there was a risk the helicopter wouldn't wait for him, leaving the specialist stranded in Yukaghir indefinitely. But we resolved that issue; the Ministry of Transport assured us the helicopter would wait for the forensic expert, whose work would take about three hours."

The helicopter is expected to arrive in Yukaghir on September 26, after which the girl will finally be able to be buried. 

There are 28 thousand settlements in Russia Dont Have year-round access to transport communications. And small aircraft could become a means of communication for remote regions where there are no roads, but the industry is in decline — the depreciation of the Russian small aircraft fleet is approximately 90%. In the same Yakutia, residents of the village of Abyi remained trapped in the taiga for two weeks due to the suspension of air traffic. 

And in mid-July he suffered crash The Blagoveshchensk-Tynda plane, which was almost 50 years old, killed 48 people.