Kamyzyak residents pointed out to authorities the unresolved problem of vandalism.

Unknown individuals damaged the "I Love Kamyzyak" art piece located near the city bus station. Local residents, commenting on the incident on social media, demanded that those responsible be found and punished.

Unknown individuals vandalized the "I Love Kamyzyak" art piece, located opposite the city bus station at 33 Molodezhnaya Street, on the night of June 4.

The plastic covering of the three-dimensional letters was significantly damaged. Mikhail Golubev, Director of the Municipal Institution "Gorodok," noted that security forces have installed CCTV cameras on the streets of Kamyzyak, allowing them to track the vandals. Identification has already begun, according to a post published on the institution's VKontakte page on June 4. "Unfortunately, vandals often damage public amenities in the city. Just at the end of last year, unknown teenagers damaged a renovated playground in the Tabola neighborhood," Golubev noted. A post about vandals damaging an art object in Kamyzyak was posted on June 4 in the "Kamyzyak Overheard" public group on VKontakte, which has 7,318 followers. As of 11:05 a.m. Moscow time on June 6, this post had garnered 23 reactions and five comments.

"We're ruining everything for ourselves. We need to install cameras and punish them," wrote Ekaterina Bisembaeva.

"There are cameras there," replied Kristina Igorevna.

"How much longer can we talk? Install cameras. Install cameras. There are always and everywhere individuals who live by unscrupulous desires. There is evil and there is good. Install cameras, and such sad events will become fewer," said Alexandra Strelets.

"We need to make these vandals work in the town for two weeks, doing landscaping in Kamyzyak, so that next time they don't even think about it," wrote Ivan Razumov.

"The parents are to blame for everything. That's how they raised us," says Denis Kudryashov.

"Caucasian Knot" also wrote that the problem of vandalism in the Astrakhan region has been a persistent one for a long time. For example, on August 31, 2024, it was reported that vandals had damaged an installation on Veterans Square in Znamensk. Local residents demanded that the perpetrators be punished and that CCTV cameras be installed in the city. In November 2024, vandals damaged a fountain in Knowledge Park in Astrakhan.

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