The object of the study is the landslide activity in the Republic of Dagestan. The paper considers the results of systematization and analysis of various sources containing information on the activity and danger of landslide processes in the settlements of the republic for 2004–2022. The conditions, causes, activity and danger of landslide manifestations on their territory are characterized. The role of natural and man-made factors in the development of this process and its obvious timing to the winter-spring-summer period of the year (the time of snowmelt and abnormal precipitation) is determined. 46 settlements were identified (in 21 administrative districts of the republic), where significant landslides occurred over the period under consideration. Most of these rural settlements are located in the low and middle mountainous parts of the republic. The largest number of affected settlements (from the studied processes) are located in the Tsumadinsky and Akhvakhsky administrative districts of the republic. It is noted that in the period from 2004 to 2022, the greatest landslide activity was observed in 2014, and a very weak degree was observed in 2010, 2013 and 2021. In 2006, 2017 and 2019, landslides in the settlements of the republic were not recorded. The most catastrophic landslide processes over the studied period of time were observed in the villages of Hebda and Golotl in the Shamil district. The article provides information on the scale of the collapse deformations and destruction of residential infrastructure on the territory of settlements. The analysis of the socio-economic consequences of the landslide allows us to speak about a fairly significant degree of their danger to the life of the population in the mountainous part of the republic.