The heat wave and drought in western Russia have sparked wildfires in the region that have killed at least 40 people and destroyed 2,000 homes. These photos of the devastation caused by the fires are lit by an eerie yellowish glow, caused by sunlight filtering through the smog caused by the fires.
An arch-like fragment of a heating system and remnants of a chimney are all that is left of a wooden house destroyed by fire in the village of Kadanok, 150 kilometres southeast of Moscow on Tuesday, Aug, 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
A ceramic dog statue that survived last week's fire is seen surrounded by burned-down ruins of the wooden house in Kadanok. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Two police officers guard burned-down ruins of houses in Kadanok. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
A cross-like fragment of a metal fence destroyed by fire in Kadanok. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
A tree trunk burns amid smoldering remnants of a forest outside Kadanok.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Tree trunks smolder amid the burned-down remnants of a forest outside Kadanok, (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Burnt ruins of houses destroyed by fire in Kadanok. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Margarita Sholokhova, centre, with her sons. Sholokhova's house was destroyed by fire in the village of Kadanok, The weather in the areas where the blazes are concentrated isforecast to reach 38 C this week. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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