Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has lifted the state of emergency on three more regions as fires abated, leaving one region still under alert, the Kremlin announced Friday.
The emergency was lifted in the Moscow region as well as in ishny Novgorod and Mordwinia as firefighters gained control over the remaining fires, the Kremlin said, according to Interfax.
But the emergency remained in place in the Ryazan region, DPA reported.
On August 2 Medvedev had declared an emergency in seven regions as forest and peat bog fires, fuelled by drought and an extended heat wave, raged around the country.
Temperatures in Moscow have dropped sharply over the past few days, with readings on Friday of 15 degrees Celsius - after weeks of 35 degrees and more.