Such a high water in the Volgograd region was not years 7. Sharp warming led to a rapid melting of the snow. As early as April 3, the situation became critical. In the village of Kumylzhenskaya, more than 300 yards have been flooded, in which 754 people live. Water went into 25 houses. A TAC for 800 people was deployed. In Sidorah, water has risen two times higher than during the strong flood of 2010.

On the farm Ternovka flooded 114 podvory. 310 people were like in "Venice", only now no joy. Zality basements, sheds for livestock, which is also difficult to save. A complex situation has developed in the city-district of Mikhailovka, Elanskoye, Kumylzhenkom, Frolovsky, Kikvidzensky, Uryupinsk, Olkhovsky, Alekseevsky districts. In the flood zone in 41 settlements there were 894 households, 3548 pridvorovyh territory. This territory was inhabited by almost 4,5 thousand people. It was deployed 15 temporary accommodation facilities, capable of hosting more than 3 thousand people. However, only 138 people moved to the TAP and to their relatives, half of whom were children. Residents who refused to evacuate, are delivered food, medicine, all the most necessary. Organized evacuation of livestock, poultry, domestic animals. Subdivisions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs follow the order.

A round-the-clock monitoring of the hydrological situation. This involved 29 stationary and 2 temporary gauging stations, unmanned aerial vehicles.

On April 4, the regime of emergency was introduced in the region, which allowed to attract additional forces to fight against water. The head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation Vladimir Puchkov has arrived in the region. Eradication of flood consequences in the region employs 886 people with the support of 220 units of equipment, including 50 boats. By April 6, water had retreated from the Bolshaya, Sukhov-1 and Hayna hamlets in the Mikhailovsky district, the villages of Kumylzhenskaya and the Oblivsky hamlet in the Kumylzhensky district, and also from the Big Moret farm of the Yelanskiy district. So, the rescuers had to pump out water from the cellars of 470 houses, drain 792 adjacent territories.

On April 6, a special commission began to work, which determines how much the houses and yards suffered in order to provide people with targeted assistance. First of all, they will help those who, due to the arrival of water, have lost vital vital appliances - heating boilers, refrigerators.