On the night of September 1, in the Elbrus and Baksan districts of Kabardino-Balkaria, along the Adyl-su gorge and further along the Baksan gorge, a powerful village came down, provoked by heavy rains and melting glaciers. He washed seven sections of the federal road Prohladny-Azau with a total length of 3.3 kilometers and three pedestrian bridges.
The gas supply to six settlements (Upper Baksan, Baidayevka, Neutrinos, Terskol, Tegenli and Elbrus, where almost 1,500 subscribers live. But the most terrible thing - during the erosion and collapse of the roadway, three cars were washed away, in which there were five people. Two managed to save. One person died. The fate of three more is unknown. Among them was the head of the settlement Elbrus Mussa Dzhappuev, who first arrived in the place, having learned about the threat of the collapse of the village. The car fell into the Baksan River at the time of the collapse of the road and it was blown away by the current. Search for people comes with the Mi-8 helicopter. The road to Elbrus is completely closed.
Sel cut off from the outside world 27 tourist bases and fifty registered tourist groups, which number more than half a thousand people. Among them there are 133 foreign citizens. Totally about 7.7 thousand people were cut off from the outside world. Electricity and water in the villages are there, food in hotels and camp sites will last for three days. All Tourists, whose rest is over, will be evacuated by helicopters.
In the region, the emergency mode was introduced. From the village of Terskol, two dozen people were evacuated by the Mi-8, wishing to leave the territory.
At the present time, the consequences of mudflow are being eliminated, heavy machinery. However, she can not drive to the destroyed sections of the road. 300 meters of road destroyed completely. To accelerate the production of works can only explosion hanging over the destroyed section of the 300-meter cliff. Otherwise, the restoration of the road will take at least 7 days. The soldiers of the 58th Army of the South-Eastern Military Army with their explosives.
Among other things, due to the interruption in the supply of electricity for 12 hours, there was a break in the work of the Baksan Neutrino Observatory (a branch of the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences). The head of the observatory Valery Kuzminov said: "We had a flood, we suffered.
The water conduit that leads to the settlement of Neutrinos was demolished, a part of the shore was demolished next to the underground installations, a remote house with detectors, a suspension bridge that connects the laboratory building and the portal, on which there were communications from the boiler room, heating mains, sewerage. While the "dungeon" (where the equipment is located) has suspended the work of ". Meanwhile, it is the continuity of measurements - the main meaning of the work of scientists. And for today in data the "hole" was formed. Underground structures of the observatory are located in two tunnels, the length of which is 3.7 kilometers.
Earlier on August 15, along the bed of Baksan,. He demolished the pedestrian bridge, but the victims were avoided at that time.