About 20 people remained in temporary accommodation facilities due to mudslide in Tyrnyauz

About 20 residents of Tyrnyauz are in a temporary accommodation center; access to the city is also closed via the bypass road due to the ongoing mudflow. The authorities reported that water is being distributed.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote, the mudflow damaged the supports of the bridge on the federal highway that leads to the Elbrus resort; traffic on the highway is closed. Some residents of Tyrnyauz have been evacuated; there is no water, electricity or gas in some areas of the city.

Some residents of the city of Tyrnyauz in Kabardino-Balkaria are in a temporary accommodation center set up at one of the local schools due to a mudflow, Interfax reported, citing the press service of the head and government of the republic.

"At the moment, there are about 20 people in the temporary accommodation center. There are no casualties. People are provided with everything they need. The houses of people temporarily accommodated at the center were not damaged," the press service representative was quoted as saying in the report.

The bypass road is also closed in both directions, the Tyrnyauz administration reported, publishing a video showing a powerful mudflow.

The city's central district hospital reported that the telephone line was cut and suggested that citizens use mobile numbers to call a doctor.

The authorities reported on the distribution of water to citizens. The message says that another truck will arrive at the mosque in the coming hours.

Recall that on August 14, 2017, after a mudflow in Tyrnyauz, the Gerkhozhan-Su pedestrian bridge was destroyed and a state of emergency was declared. 978 people were evacuated. They returned to their homes on the morning of August 15, but on the same day, the authorities again began evacuating people from the flooded area. This time, 420 people were evacuated, and were only able to get to their homes on August 16.

Recall that in 2018, geophysicists warned the authorities of Kabardino-Balkaria about the need for urgent repairs to the mudflow channel in Tyrnyauz and the organization of a system to warn people about the threat of mudflows. "The potential for mudflows in the Gerkhozhan-Su River basin is enormous, and no reduction in mudflow activity is expected in the future," the acting Head of the Department of Environmental Research at the High-Mountain Geophysical Institute Mikhail Dokukin.

In June 2021, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that a round-the-clock post had been set up on the Gerkhozhan-Su River to monitor possible mudflows. Specialists from the High-Mountain Geophysical Institute conducted a survey of the Buzulgan landslide in August-September 2020. Over the two weeks that the survey lasted, the landslide moved down by 20 meters, and its lower boundary was two kilometers from Tyrnyauz. "In order to avoid catastrophic consequences from mudflows with a possible increased volume of removal in the future, it is necessary to clear the mudflow channel from deposits of previous mudflows and reconstruct it," the institute said at the time.

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