Employees of the department are on high alert until the end of the cyclone.
"In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Vilyuchinsk, Yelizovsky and Ust-Bolsheretsky districts, as well as in the south of the Milkovsky district, heavy snow and blizzard are expected," the report said.
According to the ministry, wind speeds will reach 20 m/s, and in coastal areas of storm force of 30 m/s, on the southwest coast the wind can reach up to 35 m/s.
Earlier, Yevgeny Tishkovets, a leading specialist of the Phobos weather center, said that cyclone Vanya brought 20% of the monthly precipitation to Moscow.