The worse than usual seasonal floods have been caused by melting snow.
Across the border in Russia, an oil refinery in the city of Orsk, has stopped operations because of the floods.
The Kremlin has warned that water levels in some areas are rising faster than at any time in the last one hundred years.
Spokesman, Dmitry Peskov said President Vladmir Putin had ordered the governors of the Siberian regions of Tyumen and Kurgan, further to the east, to prepare for “expected sharp rise in water levels” and “inevitable” floods.
Russian authorities said that they had evacuated almost four thousand, five hundred people in Orenburg region in the area around Orsk.
During a visit to Orsk , Russian Emergency Situations Minister Alexander Kurenkov, warned that “a critical situation” had developed after a dam was breached over the weekend.
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