In Sochi, at the Krasnaya Polyana ski resort, the cable car stopped, RIA Novosti reports.

According to a spokesman for emergency services, there may be about 40 people on the road. Rescuers went to the scene.

The possible cause of the incident has not yet been reported.

Evgeny Tishkovets, a leading specialist of the Phobos weather center, previously reported a record level of snow cover in Krasnodar. According to the meteorologist, an unprecedented amount of precipitation in the entire history of meteorological observations was recorded in the Kuban - 41 cm per day, while the previous maximum was noted at 40 cm.

It became known that a skier died on a ski slope in Sochi after he fell into a snowdrift upside down. Eyewitnesses who came to the rescue tried to give him first aid, but they failed to save the man.

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