12:55, 28 July 2025

Three people were injured when the entrance of a dilapidated five-story building collapsed

Emergencies Ministry employees at the site of a collapsed building in Astrakhan. July 28, 2025. Screenshot of the video by the Russian Emergencies Ministry

Rescuers are searching for people under the rubble. A temporary accommodation center has been organized for the evacuated residents.

As reported by "Kavkazsky Uzel", residents of the multi-story building No. 6 on Lyakhova Street in Astrakhan demanded that the authorities pay attention to its emergency condition. There is constant water in the basement of the building, and cracks appear in the walls. The authorities are in no hurry to resettle the building, residents complained.

Entrance of the building on Lyakhova Street, photo: correspondent

02:13 20.02.2024

Residents of an emergency building in Astrakhan fear for their lives

In the basement of a house on Lyakhov Street in Astrakhan, which was declared unsafe in 2020, there is constant water and cracks in the walls. The authorities are in no hurry to resettle the house, residents complained.

Three people were injured when part of a dilapidated five-story building on Lyakhov Street in Astrakhan collapsed, the press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry reported. The department's Telegram channel says that an emergency headquarters has been deployed at the site, and minutes of silence have been announced to search for people under the rubble.

“Russian Emergencies Ministry employees are dismantling structures, evacuating residents and looking for possible victims,” the service said in a statement. The ministry specified that some apartments from the first to the fifth floors collapsed, there was no fire.

15 people were evacuated, said Governor Igor Babushkin, who arrived at the scene. Some apartments were evacuated at the time of the emergency, the regional governor's press service reported. "Of the 131 premises, 94 were evacuated," the statement quoted by Interfax says.

A temporary accommodation center for residents of a partially collapsed building has been organized in Astrakhan, said the city's mayor Igor Redkin. "A temporary accommodation center for residents of the house has been set up at School No. 8. All necessary assistance will be provided to those who seek it, including food," Redkin wrote on his Telegram channel.

As the correspondent of "Kavkazskoye Ushchlo" reported earlier, it is possible to understand from afar that the house on Lyakhova Street, 6 in Astrakhan is in a state of emergency: bricks have fallen off the walls and roof in places, cracks are visible on the house, the walls even seem to be damp from the outside. There is constant water in the basement. It is impossible to go down to the basement, the water has flooded the stairs that lead there. In February 2024, the water reached the floor level of the entrance, a correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" was convinced, although, according to residents, a few days before that there was so much water that it stood in the entrance, up to the first step of the stairs leading to the floors. In order to pass from the street to the stairs, the residents laid a kind of "bridge" - in particular, an old wooden door. Inside there is an unbearable smell of dampness, the walls are shabby, from the ceiling in the entrance the plaster has fallen in places in whole layers, and damp spots are visible behind it.

The house was declared an emergency by the order of the Astrakhan administration dated May 25, 2020. Initially, the resettlement date was named August 1, 2022, then it was moved to December 1, 2024

Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/413383