20:25, 10 April 2026

Gas supply to residents of Mamedkala has been restored.

Gas supply to the village of Mamedkala in the Derbent district, damaged by a dam breach, has been restored, and gas has also been resumed to the village of Rubas.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," approximately 1.5 million residents are in the zone of devastating floods in Dagestan. A federal state of emergency has been in effect in the region since April 9. The village of Mamedkala, where a dam breach left nearly 260 homes and gardens in the flood zone, was one of the hardest-hit settlements in Dagestan. Hundreds of volunteers arrived to assist local residents.

Flooding caused by heavy rains has been ongoing in the North Caucasus since late March, and it has become one of the most destructive in recent years. The disaster has caused the greatest damage in Dagestan and Chechnya, according to the Caucasian Knot report "Spring Flooding in the North Caucasus - 2026." Six people have died in the floods in Dagestan, five of whom died in the village of Mamedkala 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 was 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. Authorities reported payment one million rubles each to the families of the victims.

The gas supply to the village of Mamedkala and the village of Rubas in the Derbent district of Dagestan, which was disrupted by the floods, has been fully restored.

"Specialists have fully restored gas supply to residents of the village of Rubas and the settlement of Mamedkala in the Derbent district," reported the Gazprom Gas Distribution Dagestan Telegram channel.

The second phase of restoration work has been completed in Mamedkala, and in the village of Rubas, gas workers had to install a new gas pipeline to replace the damaged one. The old pipeline, part of which was blown away by the elements along with its supports, ran along the riverbed, while the new one bypassed the riverbed, the company clarified.

"Caucasian Knot" reported that Mamedkala's electricity supply and mobile phone service were restored on April 7. According to local residents, pumping water out of flooded homes remains a problem.

The Environmental Prosecutor's Office has proposed an investigation into the circumstances of the dam failure at the Gejukh Reservoir on the Darvagchay River, which caused a devastating flood to engulf the village of Mamedkala. According to the agency, the owner and organizations using the reservoir complex "failed to ensure the safe operation of the hydraulic structure." The Volga Interregional Environmental Prosecutor's Office has asked the Investigative Committee to initiate criminal proceedings for negligence and violation of environmental regulations during the operation of the facility.

Residents of the village of Gejukh stated after the dam failure that the structure had long been in disrepair. Some claim to have contacted officials about its condition, but their complaints have remained unanswered. "Everyone warned us; they knew the dam would burst. The workers at the dam knew, and that's all," RBC quoted local resident Amir as saying.

The Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences has linked regular flooding in Dagestan to a combination of natural processes and anthropogenic impacts, which increases the scale of natural disasters and increases the risks for people.

Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/422352