In Yekaterinburg, police discovered a mini-city in which hundreds of migrants had settled.
Details were reported on the Telegram channel of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Sverdlovsk Region.
Police officers responded to reports that a container town with migrants had appeared in one of the districts of Yekaterinburg.
Law enforcement officers conducted an inspection in the Akademichesky district of the city.
They actually found a mini-settlement made from construction trailers.
More than 260 people were checked. Law enforcement officers identified 53 people who were in the Russian Federation illegally. They will be deported from the country.
The raid involved FSB officers, the Center for Combating Extremism, the regional migration unit, and SOBR fighters.
Earlier it became known that mass inspections of baths, canteens and hairdressers will be carried out in Russia.