Volunteers are asking for help cleaning up the grids in Kuban.

There are several days between storms, during which time the remaining nets from protective embankments on the coast of Anapa and the Temryuk district must be removed, volunteers reported. The Kuban regional task force also reported its participation in the net removal, noting that no new fuel oil emissions were recorded.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," protective embankments hastily erected in the fall of 2025 in Anapa were virtually destroyed by strong storms and are no longer functioning, volunteers noted. Embankments and nets are a good way to protect beaches from fuel oil if they are built properly and regularly maintained, bloggers countered, noting that they found fuel oil emissions behind the embankment after the storm. The nets left on the shore in Anapa after the storm destroyed the protective embankments are no longer functioning properly. They need to be removed from the beaches before the next storm.

"A storm on New Year's Eve washed away a special embankment in some areas. It protects the coastline from debris and possible fuel oil spills during strong waves. The structure was washed away from Anapa's central beach to the Era pier in the village of Vityazevo. Monitoring teams are clearing the shoreline of nets left by the protective embankment. Restoration of the structure is also planned for the near future," the Krasnodar Krai Operational Headquarters reported on January 6. .

The task force added that no oil spills were recorded in Anapa or the Temryuk district during the first week of 2026.

Volunteers from the "Network, City, Shovel" headquarters will continue to clean up old fuel oil spills by sifting sand, as well as removing storm debris from the coast of the village of Blagoveshchenskaya near the Bugaz Spit.

This time, help is needed to dig out the washed-out protective nets. All concerned residents and visitors to the resort town are welcome to participate in the work. Those interested are welcome on January 7th.

"We know it's a holiday, but time is of the essence. The weather and storm window is still good, so we need to dig up as much as possible. Three days before the storm. We need to remove as many nets as possible. Ideally, all of them," the volunteers commented.

"Today, January 6th, 2026, I was on the beach near the Vityazevo pier and here it is: a lot of nets washed up after the storm. They're all covered in fuel oil," Larisa Larisa wrote in the "Spill on the Line" Telegram chat.

"There are some fuel oil spills on the beaches of Dzhemete, but not many." "Overall, there is almost no trash on the beach except for nets," blogger Andrey Makovozov reported on his Telegram channel.

As a reminder, on December 15, 2024, two tankers carrying fuel oil sank in the Kerch Strait. A crew member from one of the tankers died. 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".