Electricity supply has been restored to the homes of Dagestani villagers.
Specialists eliminated the consequences of accidents, after which residents of villages in several districts of Dagestan were left without electricity.
As reported by "Caucasian Knot", on the evening of November 8, residents of 12 villages in four districts of Dagestan were left without electricity. The Ministry of Emergency Situations cited short circuits and power line breaks as the cause of the outages. By the morning of November 9, 89 settlements in nine districts remained without power: Buynaksk, Gunib, Kaytag, Kurakh, Suleiman-Stalsk, Tabasaransky, Khiv, Khunzakh, and Charodinsky.
The power supply to the last de-energized villages was restored today
Today, electricity supply was restored in the Kaytag district - the last of the districts in Dagestan affected by emergency outages, reported the republican Ministry of Emergency Situations on its website.
In a report published today at 06:00 Moscow time, the agency stated that "emergency restoration work on power supply" is being carried out in three settlements of one municipal district. The names of these villages were not mentioned in the publication.
On the evening of November 10, according to another report from the agency, residents of four settlements in the Kaytag district remained without electricity.
Earlier, at 19:00 Moscow time on November 9, 37 settlements in four districts (Buynaksk, Derbent, Kaytag, and Khiv) were left without electricity.
"The preliminary cause is short circuits and power line breaks. Heating in these areas is individual, using natural gas and solid fuel. To carry out emergency restoration work, 12 teams of power networks, consisting of 43 people and 12 units of equipment, were involved," the regional Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that day.
Power supply interruptions are regularly observed in Dagestan
Let us remind you that residents of Dagestan regularly face electricity outages. Thus, on October 29, an emergency power outage occurred in 15 settlements of six municipalities. Electricity supply was discontinued in 7,400 homes, where 30,600 people live.
The day before, on October 28, after short circuits in the power networks, electricity supply was interrupted in 13 settlements of the Kizilyurt, Tarumov, and Khiv districts. The consequences of the accident were eliminated on the same day.
At the same time, on October 1, the electricity tariff in Dagestan increased by 11.3%. Residents of the republic noted that the tariff increase occurred against the backdrop of regular power supply interruptions.
As early as the summer of 2025, the head of Dagestan acknowledged that the power supply system in the republic "is operating at its limit," and the networks "are not ready for such loads". At the same time, the official noted the inefficiency and sluggishness of the authorities.
Unresolved problems in the housing and utilities sector are a factor in the growth of protest activity in Dagestan, said Sergey Bachurin, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the North Caucasus Federal District, on January 19. Residents of the republic agreed with his opinion.