Moscow. July 31. INTERFAX.RU – Brief summary of the events that took place during the day:
– Su-35 crashed on Sakhalin. The pilot ejected and survived. An emergency happened during the exercises, the fighter fell in the waters of the Sea of Okhotsk.
– Near Kaluga, the Yeisk-Moscow train collided with a cement truck. According to the Ministry of Railways, the driver of the truck drove out at a red traffic light. He died. The train injured in the collision continued to move, some of the passengers were taken to their destination by bus.
– The “Science” module was integrated into the ISS . Roskosmos also reported that the pressure in the transition chamber of the Zvezda module will be raised from 154 to 200 mm Hg in the next 24 hours. The transition chamber is separated from the main volume of the ISS, it is in it that air leaks are observed. The pressure in it has dropped three times over the past two weeks, this process is not connected with the docking of the module “Science”, emphasize in “Roskosmos”.
– About a hundred Russian tourists are evacuated from Turkish Bodrum because of the fires. Areas of several provinces have been declared disaster zones, including Antalya, Mugla, Mersin, Adana and Osmaniye. Turkey asked Russia to provide assistance in extinguishing forest fires, the Russian Federation will help the combined forces of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
– Three medals were won by the Russians on the next day of the 2020 Games in Tokyo. Saber-fencers Olga Nikitina, Sofia Pozdnyakova and Sofia Velikaya became the best in the team tournament. Yulia Zykova won silver in rifle shooting. In the same discipline, Yulia Karimova earned the bronze.
– In the Moscow metro, they began testing the “face payment” system. Passengers of the blue (Filyovskaya) line will be able to take part in testing the fare payment technology through the Face Pay face recognition system.