Severe weather has left 77 settlements across Russia's Republic of Dagestan without electricity, while flooding has cut off road access to five villages after damaging roads and bridges, regional authorities said on August 10.
According to the Dagestan branch of Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry (EMERCOM), emergency power outages had affected 77 settlements in 11 districts as of 10:50 a.m. Moscow time. Earlier that morning, officials reported outages in 51 settlements across seven districts, including Untsukulsky, Akushinsky, Tabasaransky, Kulinsky and Gunibsky.

The Russian government will provide an additional 4.4 billion rubles to Chechnya and Dagestan to address the aftermath of spring floods. The funds will be used for the major repair of damaged homes and the purchase of new housing for families whose homes were deemed uninhabitable.

Work will be carried out in Chechnya to reinforce the banks of the Sunzha River and halt further erosion.

An injured griffon vulture was found in a village in the Sisian community of Armenia. This rare bird species is listed in the country's Red Book.

The natural disaster that struck the North Caucasus and southern Russia continues to cause serious damage. Flooded homes, hail-destroyed crops, overturned ships, and human tragedies—the consequences of this unruly weather are becoming increasingly tangible.

Yesterday evening, a heavy downpour with hail and squalls lashed the capital of Karachay-Cherkessia. The storm began around 10:00 PM. Residents of the republic are posting videos on social media featuring powerful thunderclaps and bright flashes of lightning.

Over the past half-century, the ice cover on Mount Elbrus has noticeably shrunk, retreating by approximately 300 meters. Natalia Kondratieva, Doctor of Geographical Sciences and head of the Glaciology Laboratory at the High Mountain Geophysical Institute, attributed this to a rise in air temperature of almost one degree Celsius and increased precipitation.

The Mussa-Achitara peak in Dombay (Karachay-Cherkessia), located at an altitude of over 3,000 meters, is covered in snow.

The Gorny Benoy children's camp in the Nozhai-Yurtovsky District of Chechnya will be unable to accommodate its first campers due to ongoing landslides.

Roads to several villages and tourist sites in Dagestan and Ingushetia have been closed due to rockfalls and landslides.

Heavy rains in Chechnya have caused a mudflow and traffic restrictions in the republic's mountainous regions.