Transcaucasian automobile highway was closed down at 10:00 a.m. of Sunday. The highway was opened for a short period of time - from 19:00 of Saturday to 10:00 of Sunday. As press-service of Southern regional center of Russian Emergency Ministry reported, anti-avalanching group of North-Caucasian military service checked the state of avalanching sources the day before. "3 avalanching were forced, 2 of them covered the roadway", - was said in press-service.