Roads to two villages in Dagestan are blocked after rockfalls.

Residents of two villages in the Akhtynsky and Shamilsky districts were left without transport links as a result of rockfalls.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot" newspaper, 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.

As of 10:00 Moscow time on April 29, two sections of roads in Dagestan were closed, the Dagestanavtodor Telegram channel reported. "Two settlements remain without transport links (one settlement in the Akhtynsky district, one settlement in the Shamilsky district)." – the publication states.

Details are available on the department's website. According to the publication, the village of Fiy in the Akhtynsky District is blocked. This occurred after a rockfall occurred on a section of the road "Access from the Akhty-Kurukal-Khnov road with access to the children's sanatorium" to the village of Fiy.

In the Shamilsky District, residents of the village of Verkhniy Batlukh were left without transport after a rockfall occurred on a section of the road "Access from the Gunibskoye Highway-Vantlyashevsky Pass road" to the village of A landslide involving "large, oversized boulders" occurred in Verkhniy Batlukh, the report states.

A state of emergency has been declared in two rural districts due to the threat of landslides

As a reminder, on April 28, the head of the Khunzakh District declared a state of emergency throughout the municipality. This decision was made due to the intensification of landslide processes; the threat of landslides is observed in the villages of Butsra, Tselmes, and Kharikolo.

A state of emergency has also been declared in the village of Saniorta in the Tlyaratinsky District due to the threat of further landslides. Officials have not ruled out the possibility of people being relocated from this settlement.

Floods caused by heavy 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".