A family of seven has died in a fire in a private house in the village of Vysoký near the city of Megion in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Yugra of the Russian Federation.
Four children are among the victims, Yugra Governor Ruslan Kuharuk announced.
„A family of seven, including four children, died in a night fire in the village of Vysoký in Megion.
According to preliminary data, the fire was caused by a violation of fire safety rules when using electrical appliances“, he wrote in Max.
The village is located about 20 km from the center of the nearest city of Megion.
Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Ugra is a key subject of the Russian Federation, located in the heart of Western Siberia and part of the Ural Federal District.
The region is the main center for oil and natural gas production in Russia. The administrative center is the city of Khanty-Mansiysk, although the largest city by population is Surgut.
The population is 1.78 million people (according to 2025 data), the majority of whom are employed in the energy sector.
It covers an area of 534,801 km², making it the 7th largest region in Russia.
The name of the district comes from the indigenous Khanty and Mansi peoples, whose languages have official status alongside Russian.
Yugra is the backbone of the Russian economy, providing over half of the country's total oil production.
The development of the region is closely linked to the exploitation of the vast hydrocarbon deposits, which began actively in the 1960s.