Russian Wildfires –2010

Russian wildfires–2010 (August 2) Last month, Russia endured the hottest July ever recorded since records began 130 years ago. The intense heat and drought affecting central Russia has been drying out trees and peat marshes, which have been catching fire recently, burning forests, fields and houses across a massive region. Some 500 new fires have been reported in the last 24 hours alone, and a mobilization of hundreds of thousands of emergency workers is underway to combat them. President Dmitry Medvedev has now declared a state of emergency in seven regions. To date, over 1,500 homes have been destroyed and 40 lives have been lost. as wildfires continue across over 300,000 acres. – (source boston . Com) (august 11) Though many have been contained, wildfires continue to rage throughout many parts of Russia. In a new twist to the situation, officials have confirmed that some forests that were contaminated with radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster have now burned, but it was unclear what danger the smoke from such wildfires could pose. Monitoring stations have not registered any increase in radioactivity as yet. Recent windy conditions have temporarily cleared the smoke from Moscow's skies, but it could possibly return soon. The area of burning forests in Russia is now 927 sq km (358 sq mi), down from from 1,740 sq km (676 sq m) only 24 hours ago. The economic costs of the fires are now estimated at up to 15 billion dollars. Collected here are recent photographs from the Russian wildfires.

A soldier walks past birches, which are charred, damaged by fire on the outskirts of the Russian city of Voronezh on July 30, 2010. (REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin)

Local residents look at a smoky sky near a peat fire in a forest near the town of Shatura, some 130 km (81 miles) southeast of Moscow, Thursday, July 29, 2010. Peat swamps started burning in central Russia following an unprecedented heat wave. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

3A Russian man watches forest fires burn in Beloomut late on August 1, 2010. (ANDREY SMIRNOV/AFP/Getty Images)

Remains of a burnt building sit amongst ashes outside the town of Vyksa, some 150 km (93 mi) southwest of the Volga city of Nizhny Novgorod on July 29, 2010. (REUTERS/Mikhail Voskresensky)

A woman reacts near a burning house outside the town of Vyksa, Russia on July 29, 2010. (REUTERS/Mikhail Voskresensky)

Firefighters work to extinguish a fire near a burning building outside the town of Vyksa, Russia on July 29, 2010. (REUTERS/Mikhail Voskresensky)

A woman raises her hands to her face, walking away from a scene filled with heavy smoke and fire near Vyksa, Russia on July 29, 2010. (REUTERS/Mikhail Voskresensky)

Men walk in front of a burning building near Vyksa, Russia on July 29, 2010. (REUTERS/Mikhail Voskresensky)

A man sits on the ground while a house burns behind him near Vyksa, Russia on July 29, 2010. (REUTERS/Mikhail Voskresensky)

A local resident runs past part of a peat fire in a forest near the town of Lubertsi, southeast of Moscow in Shatura on July 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

In this July 28, 2010 satellite image released by NASA, smoke from fires near Moscow is visible over central Russia. The small red boxes indicate fires, the image covers 900 km (560 mi) from side to side. The city of Moscow is located near the left edge, in the lower third. (AP Photo/NASA)

People walk along Moscow's Red Square with St. Basil's Cathedral and the mausoleum of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin seen in the background through hazy smoke from forest and peat fires nearby, August 2, 2010. (REUTERS/Alexander Natruskin)

A man herds goats past a line of military vehicles transporting soldiers to fight forest fires in Ryazanovka, Russia on August 1, 2010. (ARTYOM KOROTAYEV/AFP/Getty Images)

Strong winds bend trees in the village of Beloomut a burnt landscape, some 130 kilometers from Moscow on July 31, 2010. (ANDREY SMIRNOV/AFP/Getty Images)

A Russian man walks through the remains of his burnt out home in Voronezh on August 1, 2010. (Alexey SAZONOV/AFP/Getty Images)

A girl wearing a mask over her mouth and nose looks out from her balcony under smoky skies above the village of Beloomut, Russia on July 31, 2010. (ANDREY SMIRNOV/AFP/Getty Images)

A plume of smoke rises above a dry forest as it burns near a suburb of the town of Voronezh, Russia on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

A Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations' Ilyushin-76 tanker plane drops some 42 tons of water onto a burning forest near a suburb of the town of Voronezh on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

Flames travel along a forest floor as the parched grass and trees burn near a suburb of Voronezh on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

Embers fly as a firefighter works to extinguish a peat fire in a forest near the village of Ryazanovka, Russia on July 29, 2010. (ARTYOM KOROTAYEV/AFP/Getty Images)

Local residents form a bucket brigade to carry water to extinguish a peat fire in a forest near the town of Shatura , Russia on Thursday, July 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

A Russian woman holding a baby cries near the remains of her burnt home in Voronezh on August 1, 2010. (Alexey SAZONOV/AFP/Getty Images)

Ruins of houses which were destroyed by a forest fire on the outskirts of the town Voronezh on Saturday, July 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

A charred car rests in front of a chimney - all that remains of a house that was burned to the ground, in the village of Mokhovoe on Friday, July 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Dmitry Chistoprudov)

A man walks through a stand of charred trees at the edge of Voronezh, central Russia, on July 31, 2010. (Alexey SAZONOV/AFP/Getty Images)

A firefighter works to extinguish forest fires on the outskirts of the Russian city of Voronezh, July 30, 2010. (REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin)

A woman sits surrounded by the remains of her house in the village of Mokhovoye, some 130 kilometers from Moscow on July 31, 2010. (ARTYOM KOROTAYEV/AFP/Getty Images)

Dry grass burns near the town of Voronezh, Russia on Saturday, July 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

The carcass of a charred bird lies in the village of Mokhovoe destroyed by an earlier forest fire, seen on Friday, July 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Dmitry Chistoprudov)

A local residents tries to find the remains of her belongings in the ruins of a burnt house at the edge of Voronezh, central Russia, on July 31, 2010. (Alexey SAZONOV/AFP/Getty Images)

A charred car sits near destroyed buildings in the village of Mokhovoe Russia on Friday, July 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Dmitry Chistoprudov)

Women cover their faces while standing in heavy smoke from fires outside the town of Vyksa, Russia on July 29, 2010. (REUTERS/Mikhail Voskresensky)

A woman passes by a church while heavy smoke from nearby fires darkens the sky near the town of Vyksa, Rusisa on July 29, 2010. (REUTERS/Mikhail Voskresensky)

A woman holds religious icons and a cross, as fires burn in the background, outside the town of Vyksa, Russia on July 29, 2010. (REUTERS/Mikhail Voskresensky)

A firefighter pours water over himself, near a burning house near Vyksa, some 150 km (93 miles) southwest of the Volga city of Nizhny Novgorod on July 29, 2010. (REUTERS/Mikhail Voskresensky)

A woman walks past a cemetry in the village of Beloomut, air filled with smoke from nearby forest fires on July 31, 2010. (ANDREY SMIRNOV/AFP/Getty Images)

A firefighter works to extinguish a forest fire burning near Voronezh on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

Russian women remove jars of preserved food from the cellar of their burnt home 15km from Moscow in Ostafyevo on August 2, 2010. (BORIS YELENIN/AFP/Getty Images)

Light shines through forest fire smoke near a Russian Orthodox church 30km from Moscow in Zelenaya Sloboda late on August 3, 2010. (ARTYOM KOROTAYEV/AFP/Getty Images) A burning forest is seen near village Dolginino, Russia on August 4, 2010. (ARTYOM KOROTAYEV/AFP/Getty Images)

Light shines through forest fire smoke near a Russian Orthodox church 30km from Moscow in Zelenaya Sloboda late on August 3, 2010. (ARTYOM KOROTAYEV/AFP/Getty Images)

In this Wednesday Aug. 4, 2010 file photo a firefighter attempts to extinguish a forest fire near the village of Dolginino in Russia's Ryazan region. (AP Photo/File)

Soldiers lay a water pipeline through the forest in an attempt to extinguish forest fires in Russia's Vladimir region on August 10, 2010. (REUTERS/Mikhail Voskresensky)

A military bulldozer makes a clearing in a forest in an attempt to halt the spread of fires in Russia's Kirzhach region on August 9, 2010. (REUTERS/Mikhail Voskresensky)

Local citizens attempt to extinguish a forest fire near the village of Dolginino, some 180 km (111 mi) southeast of Moscow, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010. (AP Photo)

A Russian man works to stop a fire near the village of Dolginino on August 4, 2010. (ARTYOM KOROTAYEV/AFP/Getty Images)

A Russian Emergency Ministry Mi-26 helicopter lifts a bucket of water to drop onto a burning forest near the village of Plotava, Russia on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

A view looking down at a full water bucket suspended below a helicopter before it is released over a forest fire near the settlement of Kustarevka, Russia on August 10, 2010. (REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov)

A helicopter drops water over a forest fire near the settlement of Kustarevka, Russia on August 10, 2010. (REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov)

A firefighter walks in a field while smoke from a wildfire clouds the air outside the settlement of Kustarevka, Russia on August 10, 2010. (REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov)

An image released by NASA on August 8, 2010 and taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite on August 7 shows fires burning around Moscow. Red outlines indicate actively burning fires, and multiple fires cluster east of Moscow, many of them sending their smoke right over the city. Smoke almost completely hides the land surface throughout this scene. (AFP/Getty Images/NASA Earth Observatory)

People walk in front of St. Basil's Cathedral shrouded in smog in Moscow, August 4, 2010. Air quality levels in Moscow tumbled to an eight-year low on Wednesday as the Russian capital was blanketed in thick smoke from forest and peat fires, said Moscow's state agency for monitoring air pollution. (REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin)

A small dog wears a face mask for protection against forest fire smoke in Moscow on August 10, 2010. (VIKTOR DRACHEV/AFP/Getty Images)

A river boat makes its way on the Moskva River, as the Kremlin is seen through heavy smog covering Moscow, Russia, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

A forest is on fire outside the town of Novovoronezh, some 40 km (25 miles) south of the city of Voronezh, August 2, 2010. (REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin)

The burnt-out trunk of a tree is seen in a forest near a village of Zdorovie, Russia on August 10, 2010. (VIKTOR DRACHEV/AFP/Getty Images)

A Russian woman wears a mask as she stands in the burnt out village of Mokhovoye, Lukhovitsi municipal district, some 130 kilometers from Moscow, on August 3, 2010. (ANDREY SMIRNOV/AFP/Getty Images)

Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, wearing headphones, sits in the cockpit of a firefighting plane in Ryazan region August 10, 2010. Putin, who has sought to burnish his action-man image and minimize political fallout from wildfires and drought, flew in a firefighting plane that dropped water on a blaze southeast of Moscow, state media reported. (REUTERS/Ria Novosti/Pool/Alexei Nikolsky)

A Russian man walks in a forest near the village of Golovanovo, Ryazan region, on August 5, 2010. (NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/Getty Images)

A man tries to stop fire near the village of Murmino on August 6, 2010. (ARTYOM KOROTAYEV/AFP/Getty Images)

Natalia Solonina, 70, stands in front of charred chimneys, all that was left of several houses, after a spreading wildfire burned them to the ground as well as the entire village of Peredeltsy in Russia's Ryazan region on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

People pray in the village of Kriusha, Ryazan region, on August 5, 2010. (NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/Getty Images)

In this photo taken on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010 a forest fire spreads near the village of Verkhnyaya Vereya in Nizhny Novgorod region. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr.)

Soldiers hose water onto smoldering tree trunks in a forest in the Noginsk district some 70 km east of Moscow, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010 to prevent resumption of fire. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

Valentina Kotikova, whose mother died from a stroke, reportedly because their house was burned to the ground, stands at the site of fire in the village of Peredeltsy Russia's Ryazan region on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010. (AP Photo)

Residents attempt to extinguish a fire near the village of Polyaki-Maydan, Russia on August 9, 2010. (REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov)

A Russian man walks through smoke on a road near the village of Mokhovoye, Russia on August 3, 2010. (ANDREY SMIRNOV/AFP/Getty Images)

Russian women look inside the charred carcass of a building 450km south of Moscow in Izlegoshche on August 6, 2010. The village of Izlegoshche was completely destroyed by Russia's worst ever wildfires and will not be rebuilt according to an administrative decision. (Alexey SAZONOV/AFP/Getty Images)

A Russian rides a motorcycle in the village of Kriusha, Ryazan region, on August 5, 2010. (NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/Getty Images)

Moscow's St. Basil's Cathedral is seen through the heavy smog covering Moscow, Russia, late Friday, Aug. 6, 2010, as tourists walk through. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

A boat travels along the Moskva River shrouded by heavy smog, caused by peat fires in nearby forests, in Moscow August 9, 2010. (REUTERS/Alex Aminev)

A newly married couple, no name given, celebrates their wedding despite the deep layer of smog from wildfires covering the ancient Russian city of Ryazan on August 7th, 2010. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

A man tries to put out a fire near the Russian village of Murmino on August 5, 2010. (ARTYOM KOROTAYEV/AFP/Getty Images)

A fire in a forest burns near the village Golovanovo, Ryazan region, on August 5, 2010. (NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/Getty Images)

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