On February 2, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. The educational process in the primary classes of all schools in the Vitebsk region has been suspended since February 2, Ivan Shchurok, Head of the Education Department of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, informed a BELTA correspondent. Due to severe frost, the decision to cancel classes in primary classes was made in Postavy, Rossony and some other districts the day before. Along with this, unscheduled holidays due to adverse weather conditions have begun for all schoolchildren in Gorodok, Dokshytsy, Dubrovno, Lepel, Polotsk, Shumilino districts, and the issue of suspending the educational process in Sharkovshchyna, Senno, Chashniki and other regions of the oblast is being decided. The transportation of students to and from educational institutions in rural areas is carried out by 170 school buses. The transport is operating without disruptions to the schedule, Ivan Shchurok added. The night from February 1 to February 2 was record-cold in the Vitebsk region. The air temperature dropped to minus 28-30 degrees. In the coming days, frosty weather will persist, with daytime temperatures expected to be 15-20 degrees below zero across the region, and at night the thermometer will drop to minus 23-28 degrees, and down to minus 30-32 degrees in clear spells. The beginning of next week will be marked by a weakening of the frost and precipitation due to the influx of warmer and more humid air from Southern Europe, added Lyudmila Borodenok, leading engineer-meteorologist of the Vitebsk Regional Centre for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring. -0-

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