Roads to three villages in Dagestan remain blocked.
Workers have cleared the road to 13 villages in the Charodinsky District, but residents of three villages in the Kurakhsky District remain without transportation.
As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," on May 24, two villages in the Kurakhsky District – Ursun and Khpyuk – were left without transportation in Dagestan. By the morning of May 25, after rising river water levels and landslides, residents of another village in the Kurakhsky District and 13 villages in the Charodinsky District were left without transportation. Thus, 16 villages are blocked.
As of 10:00 Moscow time on May 26, the same three villages in the Kurakhsky District that were blocked the day before remain without transportation. The roads leading to them, "Access from the Kurakh-Usug-Khveredzh road to the village of Khpyuk" and "Access from the Kasumkent-Kurakh road to the village of Bakhtsug," were closed, Dagestanavtodor reported on its Telegram channel.
In the Charodinsky District, traffic on a section of the Tsurib-Archib road has been organized according to a temporary scheme. "Work to clear the road to the full width of the roadway continues. One piece of equipment, a front-end loader, is being used. Transport links with populated areas have been restored," the department reported.
As a reminder, on April 26, traffic on the Tsurib-Archib road was also closed following a rockfall. Access to 16 villages in the Charodinsky District was blocked, and road clearing was complicated by repeated landslides. Later, traffic on the Tsurib-Archib road was reopened using a temporary scheme.
On May 17, Dagestanavtodor explained that active landslide processes had been occurring on the upstream slope adjacent to the road on the Tsurib-Archib road since October 2025. Until March 2026, the contractor maintained access there, periodically clearing the road of landslides. However, in March, intense precipitation worsened the situation, and landslide clearance was halted due to the threat of complete collapse of the slope and the road to the village of Khuruh located above it. This section is planned to be reconstructed and the highway rerouted to the opposite slope, bypassing the village of Magar and the landslide area.
In late March and early April, dozens of road sections in Dagestan were closed after floods, landslides, and, in mountainous areas, avalanches and snowstorms. The floods that hit the North Caucasus this spring were among the most devastating in recent years. Six people, including three minors, 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".