Residents of a Makhachkala village have asked for help due to flooding.
The authors of the appeal to entrepreneurs and authorities asked for specialized equipment and pumps to be sent to the Karaman-2 microdistrict to pump out the water that has flooded the streets. According to them, only one pump truck visited the village during the flooding.
As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," on April 9, the state of emergency in effect in Dagestan and Chechnya due to the flooding situation was raised from regional to federal.
About 1.5 million residents are in the devastating flood zone in Dagestan. In response, a state of emergency at the regional level was declared in Dagestan. By April 8, in Makhachkala alone, 82,900 requests for one-time assistance, more than 10,000 claims for compensation for property loss, and 297 claims for damage to health had been received from victims.
A video message on behalf of residents of the Makhachkala village of Karaman-2 was published late in the evening of April 9 on the Telegram channel of the human rights organization "Patient and Housing and Communal Services Monitor" (9,900 subscribers).
"We need help with equipment and pumping equipment for the Karaman-2 district. We ask anyone who can assist or provide the necessary equipment to contact the person in charge (a mobile phone number is provided in the publication here. – Ed. "Caucasian Knot"). Contact person: Muhammad. We would be grateful for any support," the annotation to Video.
The video shows a man standing against a backdrop of private homes and a flooded village street. He is narrating the message, while another person, not in the frame and not commenting on the events, is filming.
The man in the frame does not give his name or the date of filming. "This is an appeal to all organizations, including the republic's leadership, and everyone who owns specialized equipment. This is an appeal from Karaman-2. We simply need tractors, we need specialized equipment," he says.
Please, if anyone has tractors, send them.
The water is not receding from the flood zone, he explained. "For ten days now, just so you understand, there have been pumps along the perimeter of every street, pumping out water. But we need specialized equipment. Please, if you have tractors, send them," said the author of the appeal, assuring that the village residents will provide diesel fuel for the equipment.
Since the first day of the flood, only one fire engine with a pump has visited Karaman-2, a village resident stated. "And that's because our man took responsibility for it, and it was provided. There was no other equipment," the appeal reads.
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According to the "Caucasian Knot" weather service, Makhachkala is experiencing partly cloudy skies with no precipitation today. Similar weather is expected on the night of April 11. The weather service is a partnership between the Caucasian Knot and Gismeteo. The service allows you to correct meteorological data for a more accurate forecast. The service is also available in a light version and Caucasian Knot apps for Android and AndroidGO.
As a reminder, six people died as a result of flooding in Dagestan. Five of them died in the village of Mamedkala in the Derbent district and its environs: a pregnant 17-year-old local resident, a 12-year-old child, a five-year-old girl and her grandmother, as well as 70-year-old Aminat Musayeva, who had been missing for three days. Earlier, on April 5, in the village of Kirki in the Kaytag District, Kistaman Mazanova, a resident of a house destroyed by a landslide and a local village council member, died.
Furthermore, more than 6,200 people were affected by flooding in Dagestan, the head of the republic, Sergey Melikov, reported on April 7.
In the North Caucasus, floods caused by torrential rains have been ongoing since the end of March, and they have become some of the most destructive in recent years. Dagestan and Chechnya suffered the most from the natural disaster, according to the Caucasian Knot report "Spring Flooding in the North Caucasus - 2026".
The Caucasian Knot has compiled materials about flooding in the republics of the North Caucasus Federal District in the spring of 2026 on the thematic page "Flooding in the North Caucasus".