Russian officials say firefighters have had success containing wildfires throughout the country, while a cold front is poised to end Moscow's record-breaking heat wave. The Emergency Situations Ministry today said that the fires are burning on 45,800 hectares of rural land nationwide, compared with 53,000 hectares yesterday. Around 500 active fires are still burning across rural land. Authorities say fires that burned forests around a key nuclear weapons facility at Sarov east of Moscow are now under control. The official death toll from the fires stands at 52. Weather forecasters say a cold front is advancing toward the Russian capital, with temperatures expected to reach between 21 and 25 degrees Celsius today.