Relief funds for flood victims in Dagestan have raised over 550 million rubles.

More than 550 million rubles have been donated to the "Nadezhda" charitable foundations to help victims of the floods in Dagestan.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," approximately 1.5 million residents are in the zone of devastating floods in Dagestan. The state of emergency in the republic has been raised from regional to federal amid forecasts of a third wave of severe weather. Several regions in southern Russia have sent humanitarian aid to residents of Dagestan affected by the flooding. In Makhachkala alone, 82,900 requests for one-time assistance, more than 10,000 applications for compensation for property loss, and 297 claims for damage to health have been received from victims. There are 13 accommodation centers in the city for people who were forced to leave their homes due to flooding.

Charities have raised more than half a billion rubles for those affected by the massive flooding in Dagestan, Kommersant reported today, citing data from the charity app Tooba.

The Insan Foundation has already raised more than 54 million rubles from 55,600 people, and the Pure Heart Foundation has raised approximately 3 million rubles across two collections: a general one for the republic and a separate one for Derbent. Donations continue: Tooba publishes daily reports, and the Nadezhda Foundation (which has been working for the poor since 2012) and other funds are promptly distributing aid for food, water, clothing, and home restoration.

Over 497 million rubles have been donated to the Nadezhda Foundation to help victims of the floods in Dagestan.

This is the largest private charitable fundraising effort of its kind in the country. 300,000 people have participated in the Nadezhda Foundation's initiative. Donations are currently coming in, and the total amount raised is approaching 600 million rubles.

There is no commission charged to users—all donations go directly to the Nadezhda Foundation. "Over two million rubles were donated within the first hour of the fundraising campaign opening. We are now seeing donors consistently sending funds: from 100 to 100,000 rubles. We are grateful to every caring person and are glad that during this difficult time, people are striving to do good and help those in need," noted Tooba founder Ramazan Medzhidov.

The funds raised will be used, among other things, to support families in need of basic necessities, temporary accommodation, restoration of basic living conditions, and other urgent assistance.

"Due to the fact that it is currently difficult to determine the scale of the destruction and the number of victims, the amount will be distributed later. Assistance will be provided in collaboration with government agencies and philanthropists who want to help our people," the foundation's director said. "Hope" Murad Kerimov.

Six people died as a result of flooding in Dagestan. Five of them died in and around the village of Mamedkala in the Derbent district: 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. Earlier, on April 5, 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 topic page "Flooding in the North Caucasus".