Food and fuel were delivered to the snow-blocked village of Bezhta in Dagestan.

An EMERCOM helicopter delivered aid to the cut-off village of Bezhta in Dagestan's Tsuntinsky District. The same aircraft was unable to evacuate a meteorologist from the Sulak-Vysokogornaya weather station.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," residents of the snow-blockaded village of Sodab-Moshob in the Charodinsky District requested help to rescue animals. Hay stored for the winter is running low in Archib and other nearby villages. The village of Khosrekh in the Kulinsky District is also snow-blockaded at an altitude of over 2,000 meters. Residents cut off from the outside world by severe weather remain without electricity and communications, the village head stated on April 13, asking for food supplies to be sent to the village.

According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, due to the current weather conditions, it is impossible to leave the mountainous village of Bezhta by land, TASS reported today.

"An Mi-8 helicopter from the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations was dispatched to provide assistance. Rescuers delivered food, fuel, and warm clothing to the hard-to-reach area in the Bezhta district," the statement read.

The same aircraft was supposed to evacuate a meteorologist from the Sulak-Vysokogornaya weather station, but strong winds prevented the helicopter from hovering over the site. "The evacuation was planned using a rope-down device," the Dagestan Ministry of Emergency Situations reported on its Telegram channel.

The plane landed in the Tsumadinsky District, where a pump, hoses, a generator, and other items were handed over, the department clarified.

The "Caucasian Knot" also reported that the body of a man missing after an avalanche was found in the Tsumadinsky District of Dagestan near the village of Kioni. Earlier, an avalanche covered two houses in the mountain village of Shaitli in the Tsuntinsky District, trapping a woman and child. The victims spent more than eight hours under the snow before rescuers and volunteers pulled them out. On April 14, it became known that doctors were unable to save the woman.