Servicemen of the Russian military base deployed in Tajikistan have extinguished fire in an uptown area of Dushanbe.
On Sunday June 4, Russian military police on routine patrol detected fire that broke out on the third floor of a nine-story residential building not far from the Russian military base in the uptown area of Dushanbe.
Russian servicemen cordoned the fire site and evacuated some 100 residents of the apartment building to safe place, according to the Russian Military District press service.
The garrison fire crew reportedly came to the fire site in the shortest possible time and extinguish the fire.
The Russian military base deployed in Tajikistan is Russia's largest non-naval military facility outside the country. It was officially opened in Tajikistan in 2004 under a previous agreement, which was signed in 1993, and hosts Russia’s largest military contingent deployed abroad.
A total of some 7,000 Russian troops are now stationed at two military facilities collectively known as the 201st military base – in Dushanbe and Qurghon Teppa, some 100 kilometers from Dushanbe.
