Residents in the Khabarovsk Krai have run out of gasoline due to a shortage
In the Okhotsk District of Khabarovsk Krai—a remote area roughly the size of the Murmansk or Vologda regions—gasoline has run out. The only private gas station in Okhotsk, which has been in operation since 2018, stopped selling fuel to the general public back in mid-March due to an acute fuel shortage.
This is according to local residents.
Gasoline at the station is now sold only to hospitals, school buses, and special-purpose vehicles. People are forced to buy fuel from scalpers for 30,000–35,000 rubles per 200-liter barrel, or about 150–175 rubles per liter.
“They’re still selling diesel, but they say they supposedly want to stop selling it to the public too,” said a local resident.
Maksim Klimov, head of the Okhotsk District, stated that while the district’s annual demand for gasoline is 900 tons, only 500 tons were delivered during the navigation season. No more than 130 tons of fuel remained in reserve, and these are allocated for social institutions, school buses, ambulances, and municipal vehicles.
Earlier, a new problem emerged in Russia’s technology sector. Authorities were forced to postpone the mandatory localization of fiber-optic production for at least two years due to the shutdown of the country’s only factory producing this product. According to the SZRU, the fiber-optic shortage could impact the development of telecommunications infrastructure and other industries that rely on this technology.
