The road to 14 villages in Dagestan is blocked due to a landslide.

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In the Rutulsky District, 14 villages were left without transport links due to a landslide; there is no bypass road.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," dozens of road sections in Dagestan were closed after floods, landslides, and in mountainous areas, after avalanches and snowstorms. On April 28, there were no more blocked settlements in the republic after workers cleared roads to four villages in the Charodinsky District. On May 2, rocks fell onto a highway in the Tlyaratinsky District, blocking traffic with the village of Zhazhada.

The Kina-Germets local road in the Rutul District of Dagestan was temporarily closed due to a landslide, Interfax reported on May 3.

The villages of Mikik, Gelmets, Kurdul, Khiyakh, Tsakhur, Sogyut, Muslakh, Mishlesh, Korsh, Dzhenykh, Otdal, Kolyal, Mukhakh, and Kusur—14 settlements in total—were left without traffic; there is no bypass road.

Floods caused by torrential rains occurred in the North Caucasus in late March and early April and were among the most devastating in recent years. Six people died as a result of the flooding in Dagestan. 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".