Dagestan authorities allocated 100 million rubles to pay flood victims.

The Dagestan government has allocated 100 million rubles in payments to flood victims. In Makhachkala, 82,900 requests for one-time assistance, over 10,000 applications for compensation for property loss, and 297 applications for health damage have been received from victims.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," financial assistance of 15,600 rubles has been provided for each flood victim in Dagestan. Payments for loss of property, health, or loved ones have also been announced. By April 2, the republic's authorities had received more than four thousand applications for compensation for damage caused by the flood.

100 million rubles have been allocated from the reserve fund of the Dagestan government to help the victims, the administration of the head and government of the republic reported on its Telegram channel on April 7.

"The funds have been sent to the Ministry of Labor and Social Development of the republic to provide financial assistance to citizens whose property was damaged as a result of a series of adverse hydrometeorological events," the publication states.

According to the report, payments will be received by residents of the municipalities of "Babayurtovsky District," "Gumbetovsky District," "Derbent District," "Karabudakhkent District," and "Kumtorkalinsky District." "Novolaksky District," "Khasavyurt District," "Buinaksk," "Dagestanskiye Ogni," "Kaspiysk," "Makhachkala," and "Khasavyurt."

"The funds will help compensate for damage caused by the emergency," the administration stated.

Victims in Makhachkala have submitted more than 93,600 applications for payments.

By April 7, 93,647 applications for payments had been received from victims, Makhachkala Mayor Dzhambulat Salavov reported in a report to Vladimir Putin on the consequences of the precipitation in Makhachkala and measures to eliminate them.

"Of these, 82,990 are for one-time financial assistance, 10,360 are for partial or total loss of property, and 297 are for injury to health," Salavov's data is cited in a publication on Makhachkala City Hall website.

According to the city administration, 3,755 residential buildings on 173 streets in the capital of Dagestan were flooded.

"More than 1,070 people have been evacuated since the onset of the disaster. 431 people, including 151 children, are in temporary accommodation centers. All of them have been provided with hot meals, basic necessities, clothing and footwear, and are also receiving the necessary medical care," the mayor's office reported.

A commission consisting of 51 working groups has been created to assess the damage and inspect the homes and property of the victims. "To date, 1,546 households have been inspected," the publication states.

As a reminder, six people died as a result of the 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 Kaitag district, a resident of a house destroyed by a landslide, local village council deputy Kistaman Mazanova, died.

By April 7, more than 800 socially significant facilities were damaged due to flooding in Dagestan, with approximately 1.5 million residents in the emergency zone. It was decided to raise the level of emergency in the republic from regional to federal amid forecasts of a third wave of floods.

Dagestan and Chechnya suffered the most from the 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".