An environmentalist reported residual oil spills in the Tuapse area.

There are oil spills on the rocks at Primorsky Beach and the wild beach between Nebug and the village of Tyumensky, while the beaches of Lermontovo, Agoy, Dzhubga, and Shepsi are clean, according to an ecologist who traveled along the coastline of the Tuapse District. However, he noted a low number of tourists on the beaches.

There are oil spills on the rocks at Primorsky Beach and the wild beach between Nebug and the village of Tyumensky, while the beaches of Lermontovo, Agoy, Dzhubga, and Shepsi are clean, according to an ecologist who traveled along the coastline of the Tuapse District. However, he noted a low number of tourists on the beaches.

As reported by "Kavkazsky Uzel," all beaches except the city beaches have been cleared of oil spills, and work on them continues, the Tuapse administration reported, reporting on final preparations for the resort season. The opening of 69 beaches, including 11 public ones, was announced. On June 9, the head of the district clarified that 66 beaches in Tuapse will welcome vacationers this summer, including 15 public ones. Volunteers continue to clean up fuel oil in Tyumensky and Nebug. Oil-soaked booms washed up on Primorsky Beach in Tuapse, and the beach of the former Vesna boarding house has not been cleared of oil, despite the authorities' announcement of the opening of the resort season.

Roman Pukalov, environmentalist and director of environmental programs for the Green Patrol organization, visited several beaches in the Tuapse District. "We spent the entire day surveying the beaches south of Tuapse. My impressions are mixed," he reported on his Telegram channel.

Pukalov noted that "a tremendous amount of work has been done to clean these beaches of oil products," but dried oil stains can still be found on the pebbles here and there.

Primorsky Beach, he said, is practically clean.

"If you really set out to find a rock with a dried oil stain, you can find one. But this is a completely different picture than the situation at the end of April. People are swimming and sunbathing on the beach today. There's no smell of oil. I deliberately sat in one spot for half an hour to smell it. No, I didn't. "The air is clean, the sea is clean," he wrote, noting that there are few vacationers on the beach.

The village of Agoy has one of the cleanest beaches in the Tuapse District, according to Pukalov. "On April 25, 2026, Mount Kadosh and Kiseleva Rock protected the village of Agoy from oil products floating in the sea. They did not reach this bay. But further north, on the wild beach between Nebug and the village of "It was Tyumen," the ecologist noted.

Over the course of a month and a half, 40,000 bags of pebbles containing oil products were removed from the beach using heavy equipment.

Beach cleanup work between Nebug and Tyumensky has been completed, Pukalov reported, citing Andrei Chernenko, head of the volunteer headquarters in the village of Tyumensky.

"An average of 70 rescuers and volunteers worked here for 50 days. And during the May holidays, twice as many. According to Andrey, 40,000 bags of pebbles containing oil products were removed from the beach using heavy equipment in a month and a half," Pukalov said.

He noted that "droplets of oil products can still be found on the rocks, but the air is clean."

In other messages, he noted that the beaches of Lermontovo, Shepsi, and Dzhubga are clean.

He also noted that there are few tourists on the beaches of Lermontovo and Shepsi. "There are a little more people on the beach, but still, there are no crowds," Pukalov wrote about Lermontovo.

On May 1, a fire broke out in the area after a drone attack. sea ​​terminal in Tuapse. It was extinguished on May 2. This fire was the fourth in Tuapse since April 16. Earlier, on April 24, after booms broke due to rising water levels in the Tuapse River, an oil spill occurred into the Black Sea. On May 27, it became known about another attack on the seaport. A series of attacks on Tuapse's oil infrastructure led to environmental consequences, according to the "Caucasian Knot" report "Fires and "oil rains": the main information about the environmental disaster in Tuapse".

There is asecurity service in effect throughout the Tuapse District A regional emergency. Criteria for assessing emergency situations, response levels, and structures and resources for eliminating the consequences can be found in the Caucasian Knot's "Emergency Situation (ES)" document.

Caucasian Knot has compiled materials on the consequences of the fuel oil spills in the Kerch Strait and Tuapse on its "Eco-Disaster in Kuban" page. Caucasian Knot has compiled data on the scale of coastal pollution in its "Eco-Disaster in the Kerch Strait" document.