Residents of Yakutia lost their meat and harvest supplies after a snowstorm left the region without power.

Residents in the Amginsky district were without power for several days. According to SakhatoDay, wind and snow caused about 20 power transmission towers to fall on September 27. According to According to the prosecutor's office, nine settlements remained without electricity on September 29; four of them were later connected to the grid. 

"The heat was turned off for hours, so it was cold. We had to light the old stove. We had to run the diesel generator for a few hours to keep it running, and we had to borrow gasoline. Many people lost their supplies. Even the kindergarten was closed, and their meat and dairy products for the children probably spoiled too. How will they replenish their supplies?" a resident of the village of Onnes told reporters. 

Residents in the Chakyrsky Nasleg are still without power, communications, or internet, and have lost their supplies of fish, meat, and game. Such outages, according to locals, occur regularly, but this time, the restoration process took particularly long. 

Problems with the power grid are also typical for other regions of Russia. In the Irkutsk region, for example, even introduced Rolling power outages in windy weather. 

It is planned to invest more than 7 trillion rubles in network modernization in Russia by 2031, calculated in the electric power systems development program. For comparison: for 2025, military spending in Russia laid a record 13,5 trillion rubles, and on energy projects — just over 200 billion rubles.