The head of a blockaded mountain village in Dagestan has asked for food to be sent to its residents.

The village of Khosrekh in the Kulinsky District is trapped in a snow blockade at an altitude of over 2,000 meters. The villagers, cut off from the outside world by the inclement weather, remain without electricity and communications.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," on April 8, a Russian Emergencies Ministry helicopter evacuated four people, including three children, from a farm on the Churchalo farm, near the village of Khosrekh in the Kulinsky District of Dagestan. The road to the farm was blocked by snow. One teenager suffered a broken leg, according to the website of the Main Directorate of the Russian Emergencies Ministry for the Republic.

An address from the head of the village, Arsen Allarazuev, was published by the "NNT News" program on the Telegram channel, which has more than 20,000 subscribers.

According to Allarazuev, his uncle is in a cut-off village beyond the mountains, where they can't reach him. "It's still cold here, and no warming is expected. I don't know how long this will last or when we'll get to the village. We tried several times to reach the village on horseback, but we couldn't. Please, if the Dagestan Ministry of Emergency Situations can help, send us a helicopter, at least to deliver food to the village. I don't know if there's any food left in the village," Allarazuev said.

According to the village head, communication is very rare. Only adults and no children remain in the village. "When there is communication, villagers call to reassure us that they are alive and well," Allarazuyev added.

Also, about 300 head of cattle, cows, and horses remain trapped in the snow on farms near the village of Khosrekh. According to those who managed to contact us earlier, some of the animals have already died – they froze to death in the snow, the program clarified.

As a reminder, floods caused by torrential rains have been ongoing in the North Caucasus since the end of March, and they have become some of the most devastating in recent years. More than  6,200 people have been affected by 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".

Six people died as a result of the flooding in Dagestan. Five of them died in the village of Mamedkala in the Derbent District 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 had been missing for three days. In the village of Kirki in the Kaytag District, Kistaman Mazanova, a local village council member and a resident of a house destroyed by a landslide, died.

The Caucasian Knot has 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".