Experts of the Ministry of emergency situations of Russia, demontirovavt cable car route in the Transnistrian city of Ribnitsa, returned to the capital of Russia, said the press service of the emergencies Ministry.

"Today, from Transnistria to the Russian capital returned a consolidated group of Russian rescuers, who completed a unique complex deconstruction of emergency suspension air cable car and its elements in Ribnita," - said the head of the Department.

The cable car was the attraction of the Ribnita, part of it took place over the Dniester. It originated more than 50 years ago, but over 20 years it was not used during this period of time in a state of disrepair. The length of the road about 3, 7 kilometers. The dismantling of the cable car was launched in 2014. Rescuers had to dismantle the structure manually and with the help of Mi-26 helicopter as It passed over residential areas.

The second phase continued In the current year. Team MOE may 14, arrived in Transnistria to continue dismantling the cable car. All this activity was attended by 23 staff, and among them 19 rescuers of group "Tsentrospas" who worked in Ribnita and in the past year.

"in total, the Rescuers dismantled eight openings emergency cable car. The weight of each was about 20 tons, of which 3 were dismantled in the end, engineering blasting, was also successfully dismantled the anchor bearing bridge weighing about 50 tons, and transport the cable weighing more than 30 tons ", - told in the Ministry. Two spans of the cable car, which passed over the houses, the specialists had to manually disassemble. These operations were conducted at the height of from fifteen to 30 meters and demanded rescue special training.

The dismantling of the road were under personal control of the head EMERCOM of Russia Vladimir Puchkov.

Transnistria, 60% of the inhabitants are Russians and Ukrainians sought to secede from Moldova even before the destruction of the USSR, fearing that the wave of nationalism Moldova will join Romania. In 1992, after the failed attempt of the authorities of Moldova the power to solve the problem, Transnistria was in fact beyond the control of the Chisinau area.

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