Just over 8% of applicants received payments following the flood in Dagestan.

Dagestan authorities have paid financial assistance to 20,800 flood victims. In five affected districts, not a single resident has yet received payments.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," 248,845 flood support applications had been submitted in Dagestan by May 1, of which 10,900 had been paid. This is only 4.38% of the total number of applications.

More than 20,000 applicants received financial assistance after the flood in Dagestan

The social protection departments of municipalities located in the emergency zone made 20,816 payments. This includes 14,928 one-time financial assistance payments and 5,878 payments of financial assistance for the loss of essential property, totaling 820.3 million rubles, Magomedzagid Kikhasurov, Acting Minister of Labor and Social Development of Dagestan, announced at a meeting of the working group on providing one-time financial and material assistance to flood victims.

Of the 20 affected municipalities, five—Gumbetovsky, Tlyaratinsky, Khunzakhsky, Charodinsky, and Laksky districts—have not yet made payments, while in the Kulinsky district, payments are proceeding slowly. An official cited the lack of title deeds for homes as one of the main problems, the Dagestan government reported late in the evening of May 14.

The number of applications submitted by May 14 for payments was not announced in the announcement.

Therefore, of the previously announced number of 248,843 applications submitted, the 20,816 payments as of May 1 represent 8.37%, according to the "Caucasian Knot" calculations.

Residents are filing numerous complaints about the authorities' slowness.

At the meeting, municipal representatives stated that the difficulties with payments are due to the fact that, in addition to the lack of documents, the people who applied for payments do not actually live in the populated areas and are located in other regions of the country. A significant portion of refusals are due to multiple applications submitted by the same individuals, according to the Dagestan government.

Israfil Israfilov, head of the Dagestan Regional Control Center, reported on his Telegram channel that the Center is receiving numerous requests from areas affected by the flooding regarding payment denials, lengthy document review, and incoordination between various agencies.

Acting Deputy Prime Minister of Dagestan Abdurakhman Makhmudov emphasized that people need to be thoroughly informed of the reasons for refusals. Citizens without title documents should be informed about the procedure for receiving assistance from charitable foundations. He noted that due to the lack of effective feedback from the local population, people are forced to contact the Presidential Administration. "People are listing the authorities they've contacted and haven't received a corresponding response," the Deputy Prime Minister said, calling such an attitude unacceptable.

Charities have begun making payments to victims

Murad Kerimov, head of the Nadezhda charitable foundation, said the foundation has made payments to 32 families. In turn, Magomed Abdurakhmanov, head of the Insan charitable foundation, noted that 17 homes for families in dire need in Novy Tsilitl have already begun to be restored with the foundation's funds. The foundation has also paid out more than 20 million rubles. In the near future, representatives of the Insan foundation, at the request of individual residents of the village of Mamedkala, plan to temporarily install modular homes on the site of the destroyed homes, the report says.

Modular homes are temporary housing that is fully operational and connected to all necessary utilities. It is intended for people who have completely lost their homes. The administration of the head of Dagestan reported. The first to move into such houses in Mamedkala were the family of a local artist and a single mother raising a child with special needs, according to a statement dated May 7.

Floods caused by torrential rains began in the North Caucasus at the end of March and became some of the most destructive in recent years. Dagestan and Chechnya suffered the most from the disaster, according to the "Caucasian Knot" report "Spring flooding in the North Caucasus - 2026".

Residents of Chechnya have submitted more than 29,000 applications to the authorities for payments related to flood damage. According to them, in Chechnya, documents for compensation payments are collected without unnecessary formalities, often quite Images of damaged houses. Meanwhile, residents of Dagestan affected by the flooding have repeatedly complained about denials of payments. For example, in the Makhachkala microdistrict of Turali, flooding damaged floors and household appliances, and people were denied payments, local residents complained.

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".