Oil Emissions Were Detected In Sochi And Sevastopol
- 11.05.2026, 14:30
Bags of collected pollution are lying on city beaches.
Traces of oil products have been found on one of Sochi's beaches - in the village of Chemitokvadzha. The video, filmed on Friday morning and showing oil clods on the pebbles, was published in Instagram, the "Agency" noted. According to the author of the video, we are talking about the beach between the stations Chemitokvadje and the Air Force in the Lazarevsky district of Sochi (40 km from the city); oil emissions recorded in a 200-meter-long section probably reached the land from the sea. Also, "single specks of fuel oil" were detected in Sevastopol on May 8, Moscow-appointed authorities reported. According to locals, bags of collected pollution are lying on the city's beaches.
According to environmentalist Igor Shkradyuk, the clots in the video in Chemitokvadzha are similar to what "happened a year ago on the pebbly shore of Anapa." "Only the stains are more liquid. It's probably oil, not fuel oil," the expert said. He believes that one of the slicks, which has been "roaming" in the sea since April, could have been thrown ashore by the wind: "Depending on the direction of the wind, oil may hit the shore from Gelendzhik to Sochi". Before that, on May 6 and May 8, two satellite images appeared online, showing "elongated slicks and turbid streaks" in the sea in the water area of Tuapse and further towards Sochi up to Lazarevsky.
It was noted that these traces could be both oil emissions and "coastal turbidity, currents, cloud shadows." "However, it is worth considering that film pollution has already been recorded in this water area," the Transparent World channel wrote.
In the area of the beach in Chemitokvadzha, the water looked clear and there was no smell of oil products in the air, the author of the video noted. This is possible in case of a change in wind direction, which "again drove" the oil slick away from the shore, Shkradyuk explained. He added that the Sochi beach should be cleaned - for example, with the help of a concrete mixer and polymer mesh.
Under the coast of Sevastopol, according to the information of the "Crimean Wind", which studied satellite images, by May 9 there was recorded "a plume about 30 km long", the epicenter of which was located in the area of Kruglaya Bay (Omega). The channel reported that on Saturday pieces of fuel oil were found on the beaches of the Northern side of Sevastopol, and also published photos with black clots.