Anapa residents called on authorities to address the problem of vandalism in parks.

Unknown individuals smashed streetlights in Anapa's Orekhovaya Roshcha Park. Local residents, commenting on the incident on social media, called on authorities to find and punish those responsible and to establish nighttime security in the area.

According to the Anapa administration's Housing and Utilities Department, unknown individuals damaged and smashed some streetlights in the popular Orekhovaya Roshcha Park overnight. Park administration employees discovered the damaged lighting in the morning. Officials decided to review the video camera data and then forward the materials to law enforcement agencies to identify the culprits.

Such acts of vandalism damage city infrastructure and the comfort of vacationers, according to a June 23 report from the city administration's Housing and Utilities Department, reported by Bloknot Anapa.

A post about vandals damaging streetlights in Orekhovaya Roshcha was published on June 23 on the Instagram* page anapa_news, which has approximately 94,000 followers. As of 12:10 Moscow time on June 24, this post had 73 likes and eight comments.

"Well, what about the cameras? They're everywhere, all along the approaches. Not finding them in this situation is nonsense," noted user povean8.

"Poor Orekhovaya Roshcha. Wouldn't it be easier to have night security? It would be more effective," said lubovnla575.

"There's no money for security because," stated iuzhanka45.

"Well, there's no education in this world. Everything is permitted. Children aren't taught anything. Not behavioral standards, not communication standards. They just run around and announce from every corner that children "You can't scold them," wrote baranova858nataliya.

A post about unknown individuals breaking streetlights in Orekhovaya Roshcha was also published on June 23rd on the Instagram* page pva_anapa_, which has about 36,000 followers. As of 12:10 p.m. Moscow time on June 24th, the post had garnered 25 likes and 10 comments.

"But you can't bring small dogs," wrote oksanataisik. "But the security guard chased me while I was carrying my Pomeranian," noted alenastrekoza.

"Anyone would want to knock down a streetlight from such a height with a bang. They didn't have enough money to install proper lighting, as always," said user irischachty2.

"They spent a ton of money, but there's still no order or beauty. This park is a bottomless pit. And there won't be any order there – mayors change, but the chaos remains," wrote miya_15761.

"And what did the cameras show?" – martynekveronika asked.

"Caucasian Knot" also wrote that on March 15, 2023, unknown persons desecrated graves in a cemetery in the village of Mikhailovskoye, Seversky District, Krasnodar Krai, on March 4. They removed at least 20 iron bars, each about a meter long, from under the tombs, a local resident said.

On February 14, 2023, it became known that unknown persons damaged the monument to the Malozemeltsy soldiers in Novorossiysk.

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