Telegram users were surprised by the lack of progress in refilling Anapa's beaches with new sand.

Anapa authorities plan to deliver new sand to the resort's beaches in four stages, with a total of 90 days for the work. This delay and the lack of a contract with the contractor could jeopardize the resort season, although authorities have stated the need to open the beaches by June 1, Telegram users noted.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," the Russian Deputy Prime Minister stated that work to fill the beaches with new sand must be completed by the start of the beach season. He added that if the work goes according to plan, the beaches will be open by June 1. The government commission and Anapa authorities have not announced the start of filling the remaining beaches with imported sand, despite the announced deadline of June 1. The lack of progress casts doubt on the prospects for opening Anapa's sandy beaches.

Anapa bloggers have unveiled a plan to add new sand to the beaches. According to them, the beach filling will be carried out in four stages.

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Anapa beach filling is insufficient to ensure the safety of vacationers

Quarry sand will not solve the problem of fuel oil emissions, but will only temporarily conceal the pollution on Anapa's beaches. The quality of the sand used to fill one of the beaches does not match what tourists in Anapa are accustomed to and could jeopardize the resort's reputation, environmentalists and activists have pointed out.

A total of 481,200 cubic meters of sand will be brought in, with at least 50 centimeters of sand to be filled, writes Yuri Ozarovsky.

Initially, it is planned to fill section No. 1 with sand—from the rocks to the beach of the Bimlyuk children's sanatorium, a distance of 3.5 kilometers—with 23 days allocated for this. The second stage will cover a section of the same length, from the beach of the Bimlyuk children's sanatorium to the beach of the Ryabinushka sanatorium. This stage will also take 23 days.

The third stage will cover a 3-kilometer stretch of sand from the beach of the Ryabinushka sanatorium to the Okhta beach (Orlan Yug LLC) in 21 days. The final section, from Brigantina beach (Mercury-2 LLC) to the MoreLeto LLC beach, is 1.68 kilometers long and will be covered with new sand in 14 days. The contractor will provide services from the date of contract signing within the timeframe specified by the contract's stages, but no more than 90 days.

"There's no contract yet, so the deadline for contract execution is crucial. June 1st is clearly not 90 days away," commented blogger Max Anapsky.

This post received 26 comments on his Telegram channel. Users felt that delaying the deadline was not in the authorities' interests. "The backfill is supposedly needed for the season opening, but if it drags on until September, then why even bother with it by then? The sea there will cope by next season on its own. They'll just ruin the beaches and half won't open," commented Evgeniya Novitskaya.

"It would be better to do without this backfill altogether," she noted in another message.

"Then the beaches won't officially open, and the hotels won't get their infrastructure built," retorted K S.

How are they going to haul sand along Pionersky Prospekt in huge KamAZ trucks during the season? They'll paralyze all traffic in the main resort area!" - Larisa was indignant.

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 fuel oil spill have been collected by the Caucasian Knot on the page "Eco-disaster in Kuban".