YAK03 – 20010521 – YAKUTSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIAN FEDERATION : Local residents use a rubber dinghy as they paddle in flood waters of the Darkalakh district of the major Siberian city of Yakutsk, 21 May 2001. Forty percent of the major Siberian city of Yakutsk could be under water within 24 hours, as the worst floods in a century threatened its 200,000 inhabitants. The authorities said they were in a race against time to avert a disaster. EPA PHOTO EPA/YURI KOCHETKOV