14:42, 23 July 2025

Residents of Tyrnyauz remain without gas and water after mudslide

About 700 subscribers in one of the microdistricts of the city of Tyrnyauz remain without water and gas due to a mudflow in the KBR.

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. A state of emergency has been declared in the Elbrus district. Some residents of Tyrnyauz have been evacuated. there are about 20 residents of Tyrnyauz in a temporary accommodation center.

On the night of July 23, the Baksan River destroyed a bridge on one of the bypass roads from Tyrnyauz, Vesti KBR reported. Mudflows along Gerkhozhan-suu are no longer observed, but the state of emergency in the Elbrus district remains.

"Power supply has been fully restored. In the Upper and Lower Gerkhozhan microdistrict of Tyrnyauz, 700 subscribers remain without gas and water supply," the Kabardino-Balkarian Emergencies Ministry said in a statement, quoted by Interfax. The municipal administration has organized water delivery, the department reported.

Specialists from the High-Mountain Geophysical Institute conducted a survey of the Buzulgan landslide in August-September 2020. During 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. Earlier, 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 for warning people about the threat of mudflows.

Authorities promised a temporary crossing

Motor vehicle traffic in the city remains difficult due to damage to the main bridge across the Baksan River, said the head of Kabardino-Balkaria, Kazbek Kokov.

“Specialists will assess the technical condition of the bridge, determine the possibility of restoration or the need to install a temporary crossing,” Kokov wrote in his Telegram channel.

Car traffic has been organized in a bypass mode through the territory of the Gipsolit plant in the industrial zone. Road services are clearing the roadway of mudflow deposits in the area of the city administration, Kommersant-Kavkaz reported.

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: 420 people were evacuated, of whom only 16 were able to get to their homes August.

Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/413262