The Moscow region commission on emergencies (KChS) is introducing the regime of emergency situation in a number of municipalities of the province, at the instruction of regional governor Boris Gromov, his spokesman Andrei Barkovsky told Itar-Tass on Sunday.

"The emergency situation regime is introduced until further notice: until the situation with power-, heat- and water-supply has been normalized," Barkovsky said.

The spokesman said regional officials were compiling the list of the troubled municipalities.

The restoration works of electric power supplies continue in the Zapadnaya Dvina, Andreapol, Nelidovo and Toropets districts of the Tver Region.

Some 460 electric power substations and 67 overhead power lines are still cut from electric power supplies at 6 p.m. Moscow time in the Tver Region, a spokesman for the Tver power utility said. Electric power supplies were disrupted mainly to the wet snow catching on the wire and the trees falling on the power lines.

Over 40 teams of power utility workers with the machinery and emergency workers are involved in the cleanup of the natural disaster. “Local residents also help them,” a source in the regional authorities said. “No power outages were reported at socially important facilities,” the spokesman said.

Four repair teams from Smolensk came for help to Tver power utility workers, a source in the Tver regional authorities told Itar-Tass after a videoconference, which Deputy Governor Anatoly Bochenkov had with the district chiefs.

All electric power breaks should be eliminated by about 9 p.m. Moscow time on Sunday. “However, the municipal chiefs are instructed to provide electric power generators for the settlements left without power supplies,” the source said. The emergency headquarters works round-the-clock. The regional authorities put the situation under control.

The regional EMERCOM department opened a round-the-clock hotline.