A crane operator from Yekaterinburg got stuck during a storm at a height of 70 meters.
On July 11, 2026, crane operator Valeria Shvetsova from Yekaterinburg got stuck at a height of 70 meters during heavy rains on the evening of July 10. It was extremely dangerous to descend from there; she could be struck by lightning.
— A thunderstorm is going on, I’m sitting in the crane and crying because it’s scary, everything is rumbling and flashing, — Valeria wrote on her blog.
Valeria became a crane operator following her husband. In the spring of 2025, she completed courses and decided to stay in the profession, reports the publication "KP-Yekaterinburg." Earlier, we reported that in Svetly, lightning struck a transformer substation.
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A crane operator from Yekaterinburg got stuck during a storm at a height of 70 meters.
A crane operator from Yekaterinburg, Valeria Shvetsova, got stuck at a height of 70 meters during the downpour on the evening of July 10. It was extremely dangerous to descend from there, as she could be struck by lightning.