Sakhalinsk, December 07, SPA -- A strong cyclone is sweeping over Russia's Pacific coast, a fisherman was reported missing in the high seas, according to Itar-Tass. Despite the storm warning, a 45-year-old man went fishing by boat in the Tatar Strait from Lesogorsk, Uglegorsk district on the Sakhalin western coast. The boat with the fisherman got missing amid the high waves, local residents are searching for the fisherman, the district police said. The Primorsky Territory was the hardest hit of the storm with the two-month norm of snow falling for the past day. The motor traffic was hampered. The Vladivostok airport has not operated for two days, but it got back to the schedule on Monday. The cyclone has blocked the navigation on the Vanino-Kholmsk ferry line across the Tatar Strait. Four sea-going ferryboats, each of which can traffic 26 railway wagons and 100 passengers, came to shelter at the ports Sovgavan and Vanino in the Khabarovsk Territory. The stormy winds in the Tatar Strait reach 22 meters per second. The weathermen said the cyclone will be raging in Sakhalin for one more day and will go away in the Sea of Okhotsk on Tuesday, December 8. --SPA
