Villagers in Dagestan demanded that the banks of the Aktash River be reinforced.

Residents of the villages of Adil'otar, Kadyrotar, and Tutlar recorded a video message to the Russian president, calling for the immediate implementation of coastal protection work, including the mandatory construction of embankments along the villages. The villagers complained that they are not receiving responses from the authorities to their inquiries.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," residents of the village of Kadyrotar are still waiting for the restoration of houses and roads destroyed by the flood in Dagestan. The village is still covered in silt and debris.

A video message to the Russian president, recorded by residents of the villages of Adilyotar, Kadyrotar, and Tutlar in the Khasavyurt district, was published on June 15 by the Life Dagestan Telegram channel, which has more than 13,000 subscribers. By 9:30 PM Moscow time, the post had garnered over 250 views.

The area where the villages are located is regularly flooded, the authors of the appeal stated. "We are contacting you regarding the critical situation related to the constant flooding of our residential buildings. We had a flood in 2002, and it happened again in 2005, resulting in the destruction of 77 homes. Despite such devastating scale and consequences, nothing has been done to prevent such a thing in the future," the assembled group says in the video.

According to villagers, a severe flood occurred on the evening of March 28, 2026, due to the Aktash River flooding following heavy rainfall. More than four thousand people were stranded in the disaster area; they had no electricity, communications, internet service, or notification from relevant services or evacuation services.

"We urgently began evacuating people from the flooded area to safer places on our own. People we knew and didn't know from neighboring villages and districts came to our aid, using cars, tractors, trucks, and boats to rescue us. Fortunately, there were no casualties, but people lost a lot of property, livestock, and poultry," local residents complain.

A week later, on April 5, the villages experienced further flooding. As a result of the flood, over 130 homes were destroyed, over 200 homes require major repairs, and the surviving homes are at risk of foundation collapse. According to villagers, the Agilyotar school, post office, village library, clinic, stores, and community center were completely destroyed.

"Roads and gardens are in a deplorable state, and the water from the local well is unsafe to drink due to elevated arsenic levels. The village cemetery was also flooded and is on the verge of collapse. We are unable to bury our deceased relatives there and are transporting them to Khasavyurt or other areas. The banks of the Aktazh River are eroding and crumbling, which will eventually lead to the collapse of houses along the riverbank. People have lost sleep and peace, and families are separated because they cannot return to their homes," the video statement reads.

Residents claim they are being promised restoration, construction, and repairs. "Today is June 12, 2026, and nothing has been done yet, or not enough has been done. Bureaucracy with numerous commissions is causing discontent among the local population. Commissions come and go, making different conclusions, which is alarming to us," they say.

According to the authors of the video message, rebuilding all this is senseless and criminal, and the money will be wasted if the main cause of all the troubles associated with the flooding of the Aktash River is not addressed, because everything could happen again at any moment.

"We feel unsafe and see no point in recreating everything. We are tired of living like victims; we want to live in peace. Therefore, we ask you, without delay, as early as this year, in the interests of the safety of residents, to carry out coastal protection work with the mandatory construction of a levee along our villages, clear the Aktash River bed of debris and overgrowth, and dredge the riverbed. We ask that our appeal be considered with the highest authority." "priority, since there have been no responses to our requests to date," the villagers concluded.

Today, Acting Minister of Labor and Social Development Magomedzagid Kikhasurov announced at a meeting of the working group on providing one-time material and financial assistance to citizens that more than 42,000 payments totaling 1 billion 592 million rubles have been made to date, the Dagestan government press service reported on its Telegram channel.

During the meeting, it was separately noted that the wording still applies Refusals of applications requiring additional processing.

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 disaster, according to the Caucasian Knot report "Spring Flooding in the North Caucasus - 2026." The Caucasian Knot compiled materials about flooding in the North Caucasus Federal District republics in the spring of 2026 on the thematic page "Flooding in the North Caucasus".