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Both countries have in the last few weeks battled the worst
floods in decades, which have forced tens of thousands people to
evacuate.
Hundreds of people were building a 7-km (4.3-mile) barrier on
Friday along the Ural River in the village of Yanvartsevo, in
the West Kazakhstan region, about 20 km from the Russian border,
which officials said would also protect the regional centre
Oral.
The Ural goes through West Kazakhstan and the Atyrau region as
it flows into the Caspian Sea, an area also crossed by the
Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) pipeline, which pumps 80% of
Kazakhstan's vital oil exports.
In the city of Atyrau, local newspaper Ak Zhayik reported many
residents were leaving to wait out the peak of the floods in
other cities, while some were building sandbag or plastic
barriers around their houses.
Kazakh state oil pipeline company KazTransOil said it was
building protective embankments at its facilities in the region,
including the Atyrau-Samara pipeline, through which crude is
pumped for further delivery, via Russia, to Germany's Schwedt
refinery.
In Russia, authorities in the Tyumen region in Siberia called
for the urgent evacuation of five villages along the Ishim
River, instructing people to grab only their documents,
medicines and bedclothes.
In the Russian city of Kurgan, water levels in the Tobol river
have risen to a record high, Kurgan regional governor Vadim
Shumkov said on the Telegram messaging app, and parts of the
city on the right bank of the river have been flooded.
More than 15,000 people have been evacuated in the Kurgan
region, the TASS news agency cited local authorities as saying.
(Reporting by Tamara Vaal; Writing by Olzhas Auyezov; Editing by
Alex Richardson)
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