The fire broke out during the night from Thursday to Friday in a residential building in the northwest of Moscow. The building was built in the 1950s and the descendants of many writers and other members of the Moscow intelligentsia still reside there.
Russian authorities have not mentioned potential causes of the fire and said they have no “information” on possible victims. The fire hit a building near the “Airport” metro station in the northwestern of the city. “The fire is localized,” this source said in the middle of the night, without giving further details.