MOSCOW, May 25 (Itar-Tass) - The electricity supply of 24 cities and settlements of the Moscow region will be partially restored by six in the evening, regional deputy governor Alexei Panteleyev said.
Massive power outages on Wednesday morning have stopped the Moscow underground, with tens of thousands of passengers stranded in train cars.
Panteleyev said thousands of express buses would ply in the evening from underground stations to the Moscow region’s cities where commuter train are not going because of the electricity problems.
When the electricity crisis broke out, all hospitals, maternity houses and vital facilities began to use standby diesel generators, and the power supply problem did not affect patients in hospitals and intensive care units and ambulance stations, Panteleyev said.
It sounds like the Russian's electrical distribution system is starting to catch up with the US grid - this sounds somewhat comparable to the '65 Eastern-US blackout. - scope probably somewhat smaller.