Officials are quoted as saying the more recent fire broke out overnight at a psycho-neurological clinic near the town of Taiga in the Kemerovo region.
Authorities said arson is being investigated as a possible cause.
More than 220 people were reported inside the building when the fire broke out.
At least 45 women died in a fire at a drug-rehabilitation center in Moscow early on December 9 in a suspected arson attack.
(ITAR-TASS, AFP)
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