105 Anapa Beaches Get Opening Permission
More than 100 beaches in Anapa have received permission to open the beach season.
Consensus
- 105 beaches in Anapa have received permits to open for the swimming season.
- Four additional beaches are still undergoing expert review.
- Cleanup operations have been conducted in the Black Sea and along the coast of Krasnodar Krai and Crimea.
- Over 3,600 km of coastline have been cleaned, including repeated cleaning.
- More than 185,3 thousand tons of contaminated sand and soil have been collected.
- 22,45 thousand bags of oil-containing waste have been collected from the seabed.
- Monitoring of the Black Sea and the coast continues.
- No oil product discharges have been recorded recently.
- The cleanup is being carried out by a joint task force of 759 people and 187 units of equipment.
- The incident occurred due to the sinking of two tankers, 'Volgoneft-212' and 'Volgoneft-239', in the Kerch Strait in December 2014.
Points of divergence
- The oil spill was caused by a drone attack on the infrastructure of the sea terminal in Tuapse on April 20, 2024. — vedomosti
- The tanker disaster occurred on December 15, 2024, and resulted in fuel leakage affecting 54 km of coastline. — interfax
- The incident was caused by violation of seasonal navigation restrictions. — m24
- The area of pollution in the sea reached 10,000 square meters. — interfax
- In April 2025, Rospotrebnadzor declared 141 beaches in Anapa and 9 in Temryuksky District unsafe for swimming. — m24
- Water divers conducted 22,75 thousand dives during seabed cleanup. — interfax
Coverage (4 sources)
- More than 100 beaches of Anapa received permission to open — Коммерсантъ
- More than 100 beaches in Anapa have received permission to open the beach season — Ведомости
- More than a hundred beaches in Anapa are already able to receive tourists — Интерфакс
- Rosпотребнадзор approved opening of season on 105 beaches of Anapa — Москва 24
Key entities
- Anapa
- Russia
- Krasnodar Krai
- Black Sea
- Rospotrebnadzor
- Moscow
- INTERFAX.RU
- Crimea
- TASS
- RT
- Republic of Crimea
- Kerch Strait
- Maxim Churusov