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Power outage reported in St. Petersburg airport

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On the evening of Sept. 24, power went out in Russia's Pulkovo Airport and the St. Petersburg district of Shushary, east of the airport.

According to various Telegram channels, local residents heard a loud sound resembling an explosion and saw a bright flash an hour before the outage. There was no water supply in the neighborhood.

Pulkovo Airport, located 23 kilometers south of Saint Petersburg city center, reported that the power supply was disrupted in the departure hall of domestic flights. Emergency lighting were switched on in the building.

Russian authorities have not yet commented on the situation.

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Olena Goncharova

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Olena Goncharova is the Special Correspondent for the Kyiv Independent, where she has previously worked as a development manager and Canadian correspondent. She first joined the Kyiv Post, Ukraine's oldest English-language newspaper, as a staff writer in January 2012 and became the newspaper’s Canadian correspondent in June 2018. She is based in Edmonton, Alberta. Olena has a master’s degree in publishing and editing from the Institute of Journalism in Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. Olena was a 2016 Alfred Friendly Press Partners fellow who worked for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for six months. The program is administered by the University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia.

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