The fate of Anapa's beaches has worried Telegram users.

The quality of the sand delivered to the Anapa beach is questionable; it is construction sand with clay admixture, an ecologist pointed out, noting that this could ruin the beaches for a long time. Users believe the goal of reopening the beaches will be achieved, regardless of the damage to nature.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," eight pebble beaches in Anapa, from the village of Bolshoy Utrish to "Vysoky Bereg," have been excluded from the emergency zone due to a fuel oil spill. The decision on their reopening will be made by Rospotrebnadzor. Previously, the lessee of the beaches in the village of Vityazevo began adding a new layer of sand from quarries in a test area. This restoration experience may subsequently be extended to other beaches in the emergency zone. Ecologist Yevgeny Vitishko believes that such actions simply conceal the problem, but do not solve it. If samples of new sand at Miracleon Beach are acceptable, Anapa authorities intend to replenish all the city's beaches within three months.

Rospotrebnadzor evaluates imported sand based on sanitary and hygienic indicators, primarily focusing on the presence of petroleum products, but an analysis of the sand's physical and chemical characteristics and its mineral composition is unlikely to be carried out, said Stanislav Ermolaev, an ecologist and member of the Environmental Watch on the North Caucasus.

"For the sand of Anapa's beaches, the mineral composition is of primary importance. The sand must consist of quartz and feldspar. This is what determines its physiotherapeutic value. Furthermore, the size of the grains is of great importance. A finely dispersed composition (very small size) will lead to rapid blowing and washing into the water as a suspended solid. Another important factor is the presence of clay and silt impurities. Their presence in beach sand is unacceptable! Otherwise, silt and clay will wash into the beach water, causing it to lose transparency," Anapa Grazhdanskaya quotes him as saying.

The sand brought in can be characterized as fine-grained construction sand with a high clay content.

The beach in the area of ​​"Pearl" - "Miracleon" is filled He noted that the sand was finely dispersed (dusty), yellow with a greenish tint (significantly different in color from the sand on Anapa's beaches), with a significant number of lumps of clay (yellow-brown) and silt (gray) of varying sizes. "The lumps were visually observed everywhere. The sand delivered can be characterized as fine-grained construction sand with a high clay content," the ecologist emphasized. He added that using sand like the one found on the Miracleon Beach section would result in a loss of its therapeutic and health-improving properties and significantly reduce user experience. "Refilling Anapa's beaches with quarry sand is destructive and will lead to the permanent loss of their most valuable properties," he emphasized.

If sand containing clay and silt inclusions is added to the remaining fuel oil particles, this could completely destroy the beaches.

"We consider it extremely important to warn against the unacceptability of filling the beaches of the Anapa resort with low-quality quarry sand! If sand containing clay and silt inclusions is added to the remaining fuel oil particles, this could completely destroy the beaches. In order to save money on restoring the sandy surface of the beaches and opening them to some users in the 2026 season, we could lose the beaches for the long term. This is unlikely to be justified," the ecologist noted.

This message was reposted by the "Makovozovy" Telegram channel and has received 29 comments. comments.

"Where are they going to get such a quantity of clean sand? Of course, it's mixed with clay. It would be terrible if they brought it to the central beach," writes Tatyana.

"Try stopping this process now. They decided to fill it, so they'll fill it. And what happens next doesn't matter. The money is being spent, the work is going on. It's just a shame about the environment," noted Polina.

"I really hope the commission doesn't approve the use of quarry sand on the remaining beaches. "The experiment wasn't entirely successful," Julia commented.

"Caucasian Knot" also reported that an administrative citation for using an ATV in a specially protected natural area was filed against a volunteer who had come to clean up fuel oil spills on the Bugayskaya Spit.

On December 15, 2024, two tankers carrying fuel oil sank in the Kerch Strait. A crew member of one of the tankers died as a result. In addition, an oil spill occurred, leading to catastrophic environmental consequences, according to the "Caucasian Knot" report "Fuel Oil Spill in the Kerch Strait".

Materials on the consequences of the spill Fuel oil waste collected by the "Caucasian Knot" on the page "Eco-disaster in Kuban".