A school and kindergarten in a Chechen village are closed due to bad weather.
Due to rain, a school and kindergarten in the village of Gurzhi-Mokhk were damaged; children were transferred to another educational institution. In the Shatoi District, residents of two villages were left without transportation after a section of road collapsed.
As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," on March 30, 1,260 homes and courtyards remained flooded in Chechnya, with the water receding from 557 houses. 1,109 people were evacuated from the village of Kundukhovo in Gudermes and the village of Braguny.
On March 28-29, the village of Kundukhovo in Gudermes was flooded, requiring the evacuation of residents. After evacuating from the flood zone, residents of the village stayed with relatives, refusing to be sent to temporary accommodation centers. By the morning of March 30, 645 people (294 adults and 351 children) were evacuated from the village of Braguny in the Gudermes District, and another 504 people were evacuated from Gudermes and the village of Dzhalka.
Students and kindergarten students in the village of Gurzhi-Mokhk in the Nozhai-Yurt District have been transferred to the nearest educational institution due to damage to buildings caused by rain, Chechen Minister of Education and Science Khozh-Baudi Daayev said.
"The kindergarten and school in the village of Gurzhi-Mokhk were the hardest hit in the district. Children will be sent to a nearby school, and we will organize a centralized shuttle service for them. All other educational institutions in the district are operating as usual," Chechnya Today quotes him as saying today.
Residents Two villages in Chechnya are left without transport links.
In the Shatoi district, two villages – Dai and Nokhchi-Keloi – were cut off from transport links due to an emergency section of the road, the head of the municipality, Ruslan Akayev, reported.
"The emergency section is about 150 meters long. Eight pieces of equipment are on site, the road has been almost completely cleared today, but it is not yet possible to hold it due to unstable ground. As a result of the incident, two villages, Dai and Nokhchi-Keloi, were cut off from transport links, 70 and 45 subscribers, respectively, remain without electricity and gas. Food delivery has been organized if necessary. A dam for pedestrian crossing has also been built to ensure the movement of residents," the agency quotes Akayev as saying today.
According to the "Caucasian Knot" weather service, there is weak wind in Shatoi today. Rain, air temperature +11 degrees. On the night of April 1, the rain will intensify to moderate, the temperature will drop to +8 degrees. The weather service is a partnership project of the "Caucasian Knot" and Gismeteo. The service allows you to correct meteorological data for a more accurate forecast. The service is also available in the light version and the Caucasian Knot apps for Android and AndroidGO.
According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, more than 250 residential buildings and 300 garden plots remain flooded in Chechnya, TASS reported at 9:34 a.m. Moscow time.
There is no flooding in Ingushetia
Ingushetia "has weathered the storm without serious consequences," Ingushetia's head, Makhmud-Ali Kalimatov, announced on his Telegram channel on the evening of March 30.
"The water level in the rivers rose, but did not reach critical levels. No flooding was recorded, only isolated power outages, which have already been fully resolved," he wrote.
According to the official, "the worst-case scenario was avoided largely thanks to the work carried out in advance." "Thanks to federal support, bank protection work was carried out on the Assa River in Galashki and on the Yandyrka River in the Nazran District. Previously, as part of the national project 'Infrastructure for Life,' [...] seven bridges were completely modernized in Karabulak, Ekazhevo, and Sredniye Achaluki," the publication states.
Caucasian Knot has compiled materials on flooding in the North Caucasus Federal District republics in the spring of 2026 on the topic page "Flooding in the North Caucasus".
As a reminder, a state of emergency was declared in the Shali, Kurchaloy, Sharoi, Shatoi, and Nozhai-Yurt districts of Chechnya. At least 38 homes were flooded in the Shali District, bridge supports across the Khulkhulau and Bass Rivers, as well as a gas pipeline, were destroyed. A partial dam breach occurred near the village of Tsotsi-Yurt in the Kurchaloevsky District. In the Nozhai-Yurtovsky District, 69 homes were damaged.
The state of emergency is provided for by Federal Law No. 68-FZ of December 21, 1994, "On the Protection of Population and Territories from Natural and Man-Made Emergencies." Depending on the level of emergency, the state of emergency may be declared by the head of a city, district, governor, the Russian government, or the president. The authorities' ability to allocate budget funds for emergency situations depends on the level of the emergency state, lawyer Maria Spasibukhova explained to the "Caucasian Knot" in December 2024.
In Dagestan, neighboring Chechnya, a state of emergency due to flooding has been declared in Buynaksk, Dagestanskiye Ogni, Kaspiysk, Khasavyurt, and three other districts of the republic. According to authorities, by the evening of March 30, water had receded from 544 residential buildings, 698 garden plots, and 120 sections of roads. 235 houses, 550 plots of land, and 10 sections of roads remained flooded.