The number of blockaded Dagestani villages has grown to nine.

Residents of the village of Fite were left without transportation after a landslide hit the highway. Eight villages in Dagestan's Charodinsky District remain blocked.

As reported by "Kavkazsky Uzel," access to eight villages in the Charodinsky District (Shalib, Alchunib, Archib, Keseribe, Khilih, Khitab, Kalib, and Kubatl) was blocked on the evening of May 11 after the Risor River washed out the approach to a temporary bridge on the Tsurib-Archib highway. The villages were left without transportation. By May 13, traffic was organized according to a temporary scheme, but then the river again washed away the road to seven settlements.

Nine settlements (one in the Agulsky district and eight in Charodinsky) are now without transport links, reports Dagestanavtodor.

In the Agulsky district, the road to the village of Fite is closed due to a landslide, and in Charodinsky, the same eight villages remain without transport links: Shalib, Alchunib, Archib, Keseribe, Khilih, Khitab, Kalib, and Kubatl.

"As of 10:00, May 16, 2026: 2 road sections are closed; 15 sections are closed with detours. Emergency repair work is underway in all directions," the publication says. The department's Telegram channel.

As a reminder, on April 26, a section of the Tsurib-Archib highway was also closed to traffic following a rockfall. Access to 16 villages in the Charodinsky District was blocked, and road clearing was complicated by repeated landslides. Later, traffic on the Tsurib-Archib highway was reopened using a temporary scheme.

In late March and early April, dozens of road sections in Dagestan were closed after floods, landslides, and, in mountainous areas, after avalanches and snowstorms. The floods that occurred in the North Caucasus this spring were among the most devastating in recent years. Six people, including three minors, 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".