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Residents of Russia's Yaroslavl panic over a large fire at a refinery.

On the morning of October 1, residents of Russia's Yaroslavl saw fire from the territory of the refinery and a large column of black smoke outside their windows. At the same time, none of the locals reported sounds of explosions or drones flying over their heads. At the same time, local blogs have started posting fire from the territory of the local oil refinery, Dialog.UA reports.

Fire trucks are driving toward the refinery, and some local channels assure that this is not a real fire, but just a drill in conditions close to reality.

"Yaroslavnefteorgsintez" is the largest refinery in northern Russia. The refinery was commissioned in 1961. The refinery is part of Rosneft and Gazprom Neft.

One of the largest oil refineries in central Russia is part of the vertically integrated oil company Slavneft.

The main activity of the enterprise is the provision of oil refining services. The profile of the refinery is fuel and oil. The capacity of the enterprise is designed to refine 15 million tons of oil per year.

In terms of primary oil refining, it ranks 5th among Russian oil refineries. Feedstock for the refinery comes to the Yaroslavl area via Surgut - Polotsk, Nizhny Novgorod - Yaroslavl, Usa - Ukhta - Yaroslavl pipelines.

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