About 200 citizens of Uzbekistan awaiting opportunity to return home placed in a mosque near Volgograd

“An emergency meeting was held at the Volzhsky administration today. People decided to help us in accommodating Uzbek citizens coming from all over Russia. We have provided beds, mattresses, food, and additional toilets. In total, about 200 people gathered in the mosque,” the Imam said.

He noted that as a result of inaccurate information provided by railway workers, about 1,000 people gathered at the Volzhsky station on September 25 hoping to catch up with a train to Tashkent. Ticket sales were not organized online, it was possible to purchase tickets only at the station’s sales counters.

“Now we have launched a sale on the Internet. We hope that now people will not have to come to the station in advance and will come directly to the train. But we are still ready to help everyone,” Abdulla Khadji said.

He added that as of today about 600 tickets for two repatriation trains are available, almost 1.3 thousand tickets have already been sold out.

Previously, it was reported that more than 13 thousand citizens of Uzbekistan were sent home from the Samara Oblast.