{"id":1376283,"date":"2026-03-31T15:58:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/one-of-the-largest-petrochemical-plants-is-on-fire-in-tatarstan-one-person-dead-and-several-injured\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T15:58:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:58:47","slug":"one-of-the-largest-petrochemical-plants-is-on-fire-in-tatarstan-one-person-dead-and-several-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/one-of-the-largest-petrochemical-plants-is-on-fire-in-tatarstan-one-person-dead-and-several-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the largest petrochemical plants is on fire in Tatarstan: one person dead and several injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On March 31, a powerful explosion and a large-scale fire broke out at a petrochemical plant in the city of Nizhnekamsk, Tatarstan, Russia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is reported by social media users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a result of the incident, 50 people were injured, they received injuries of varying severity. One person is also known to have died. According to unconfirmed information, another 7 people are missing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ambulance crews from another city were sent to Nizhnyokamsk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the official version of emergency services, the cause of the explosion was an equipment malfunction, which led to a fire. The fire covered a large area &#8211; the flames spread to more than 2 thousand square meters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Firefighters are working at the scene. More than 60 specialists and 19 pieces of equipment were involved in extinguishing the fire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe fire at Nizhnekamskneftekhim has been assigned the maximum level of complexity,\u201d Russian publics note.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is worth noting that PJSC Nizhnekamskneftekhim is one of the largest petrochemical plants in the Russian Federation and Eastern Europe. The enterprise produces synthetic rubbers, ethylene, propylene, benzene, polyethylene, polypropylene and polystyrene.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> Recall, earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/na-rosiyskomu-npz-u-nyzhnokamsku-spalakhnula-masshtabna-pozhezha-do-likvidatsii-zaluchyly-32-odynytsi-tekhniky\/\">in Nizhny Kamsk a fire broke out on the territory of a local oil refinery<\/a> . According to analysts, one of the primary oil refining units was on fire.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 31, a powerful explosion and a large-scale fire broke out at a petrochemical plant in the city of Nizhnekamsk, Tatarstan, Russia. This is reported by social media users. As a result of the incident, 50 people were injured, they received injuries of varying severity. One person is also known to have died. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1370356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76875,76870],"class_list":["post-1376283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1370356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}