The incident occurred in a one-room apartment, As a result of the fire, the kitchen and all the equipment installed there for mining burned.
The EMERCOM team arrived on the scene and hastily evacuated 15 residents of the entrance.
The fire was extinguished in less than 10 minutes, according to the Leningrad Region Ministry of Emergency Situations.
Fortunately no one was injured in the fire.. Local authorities are still establishing the amount of damage, as well as the exact causes and circumstances of the accident.
The wiring in residential buildings is not designed to connect powerful equipment for mining, so such fires occur frequently, the Ministry of Emergency Situations said.
In February, a resident of the Irkutsk region died in a fire in a bathhouse where he had installed equipment for mining cryptocurrencies.
Irkutskenergosbyt recently reported that the number of lawsuits filed against underground miners exceeded 1,000.
At the same time 600 lawsuits worth 260 million rubles have already been satisfied.