With Russia on Covid-19 lockdown, 77 houses were burned down in Novosibirsk and Kemerovo regions.
Worrying videos and pictures show how the pristine polar region of northern Yakutia is ablaze.
At least 90 left homeless in one village after raging infernos, say reports.
Some 784,931 hectares of wildfires are raging on permafrost zones including the Arctic in Yakutia - officially Sakha Republic - and the Khanty-Mansi autonomous region, causing possibly irreparable damage to the tundra. Other infernos are sweeping through boreal forests which are known as the lungs of the Northern Hemisphere.
The cost of the recent fires has been revealed as Vladimir Putin today visited TransBaikal to assess the damage en route to a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un in Vladivostok
Abnormally hot May weather resembles midsummer with air temperatures as high as +35C.
Wildfires ablaze early in year due to lack of snow, posing threat to railway in Russian Far East.
This time weather experts think the blackout was caused by smoke from wildfires mixing with heavy rain clouds.
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