Residents of a Orenburg village built a dam that saved their homes. Now the authorities are threatening them with fines.

When the flood situation began to get out of control, the residents of Perovsky chose not to leave everything to the authorities, but to take matters into their own hands to protect their homes from flooding. They designed a dam one and a half kilometers long, collected 3 million rubles for its creation, and built the embankment within five days.

Men helped in construction, women prepared food, and those who could provided trucks. At night, residents of the village were on watch duty at the dam, looking for leaks. As a result, the structure survived and saved Perovsky from flooding.

The residents did not receive any payments from the authorities, but officials began to threaten them now with fines for unauthorised construction work.

Apparently it is better to let your village drown by inaction.

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