On the evening of 23 December 2022, a private house operating as an unauthorized nursing home caught fire in Kemerovo, Russia, killing 22 people and injuring six.

[1][2] In 2021, the Ministry of Emergency Situations proposed introducing a special registry for nursing homes and hospices after a series of fires in Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, the village of Ishbuldino in Bashkortostan, and the village of Borovsky, Tyumen Oblast.

[3] In January 2021, the Golden Time boarding house burned down in Kemerovo, killing 15 people.

'[5] TASS, citing emergency services, wrote that the cause of the fire could be a malfunctioning furnace.

[7] Kemerovo Oblast Governor Sergey Tsivilyov announced all nursing homes in the city, particularly unregistered ones, to be checked by the emergency services.