Russian President also inspected a facade of the burned building with Sergey Menyaylo, a presidential envoy in the Siberian Federal District.
Last Sunday, a fire broke out in the Zimnyaya Vishnya shopping center. Russian Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov said earlier that 64 people had died in the tragic incident, many of them children. The incident left dozens seriously injured.
The Russian Investigative Committee has opened several criminal cases into the incident, including deaths through negligence and fire safety violations. The official cause of the blaze is yet to be determined.
The tragedy has already resulted in a series of checks into compliance with fire safety regulations across Russia.
The Kemerovo fire is one of the deadliest in Russia's recent history, along with the ones in Samara, the Krasnodar Region and Perm that took place in 1999, 2007 and 2009 respectively.
