As a result of strong, prolonged rains, the flow of water into the rivers of the Stavropol Territory. Overflowed Kuma with the tributaries, began a massive flood. Already aware of the deaths during the flood of two people. A man and a woman were found in a flooded house in Mineralnye Vody.

The water level was tried to be regulated with the help of reservoirs, but by May 29 the water level in the Otkaznensky reservoir was approaching the critical one, and its decline was not anticipated. On the rivers of the Krai, the situation is monitored by 23 hydrological stations, two of them are located at the Otkaznensky Reservoir. Moreover, it became clear that, if the trend persists, the reservoir may become depressurized, which would result in the flooding of seven settlements where about 40 thousand people live. The flood would be the largest in the past half century.

Situation center in Zelenokumsk. 400 buses and 100 temporary accommodation facilities were prepared in 15 towns of Stavropol. Hundreds of policemen, employees of the Ministry for Emergency Situations, military personnel from Stavropol and other regions, volunteers were ready to go out to evacuate and organize the cordon of evacuated settlements in order to protect the property of people from looting. Evacuation began on Monday morning. It was evacuated Refused - it is located closest to the Otkaznensky Reservoir. The residents were placed in the school and the Palace of Culture of the Kamennaya Balka village. All of them are provided with beds and hot meals. Monitoring of the water level in the reservoir was constantly carried out. The inflow of water did not decrease. Next in line were Zelenokumsk, Arkhangelsk, Nina, Starodub, Orlovka and the Deceased.

After this, the evacuation was suspended.

The decision on further evacuation was postponed on the morning of May 30. The fact is that at this time builders in a hurry to build a bypass channel 6 meters wide and 2.5 kilometers long. If there is a threat of a breakthrough, the water along it can be sent past Failure and other villages. And the builders had time, by the morning the channel was ready.

The decision on evacuation, if necessary, will be taken every morning at 10 am for a meeting of the Regional Emergency Commission. Rains in the region continue.