In the Sochi area, flooding began due to heavy rains, the press service of the GUMCHS of Russia for the Krasnodar Territory reports.
The ministry said that heavy rains are falling on the Black Sea coast, in Sochi, as well as in the Tuapse district. There will be less precipitation later in the evening.
The situation is under the control of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. In the areas of mountain rivers, there are fluctuations in water levels, but they do not yet reach dangerous levels. A section of the federal highway A-147 Dzhubga & ndash; Sochi in the village of Vardane was flooded.
Earlier it was reported that traffic on the Novorossiysk-Kerch federal highway near Anapa is limited due to flooding.