The Krasnodar region was hit by flash flooding in the middle of the night, caused by about a foot of rain, within a few hours.
Most of the dead were in the town of Krymsk, but various other towns near the Black Sea also reported deaths.
Dozens of people are still missing, and Moscow has sent search and rescue teams to join the more than one thousand people already at work in the area.
The area is a popular place for children's summer camps, but luckily one of them was effected, and all there were safely evacuated.
Alexander Tkachev, the regional governor, described the floods as "something unimaginable" and that "no one can remember such floods in our history. There was nothing of the kind for the last seventy years".
President Putin has demanded an investigation into the Russian weather warning system.
The storms are expected to continue through Monday morning.
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