July 2019. Dolzhanskaya spit, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. On the Sea of Azov
July 2019. Dolzhanskaya spit, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. Water sports instructor on the Sea of Azov
July 2019. Dolzhanskaya spit, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. People enjoying water sports on the sea of Azov.
July 2019. Dolzhanskaya spit, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. On the Sea of Azov
July 2019. Dolzhanskaya spit, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. On the Sea of Azov
July 2019. Dolzhanskaya spit, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. On the Sea of Azov
July 2019. Dolzhanskaya spit, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. Russian kids on holiday on the Sea of Azov.
July 2019. Dolzhanskaya spit, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. On the Sea of Azov
July 2019. Dolzhanskaya spit, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. Mikhail, retired taxi driver from Moscow, is on holiday on the Sea of Azov.
July 2019. Dolzhanskaya spit, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. Evgeniya Chapaykina, a photographer from Moscow, on holiday with her family on the Sea of Azov.
July 2019. Dolzhanskaya spit, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. Russian mother and daughter on holiday on the Sea of Azov.
July 2019. Dolzhanskaya spit, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. On the Sea of Azov
July 2019. Dolzhanskaya spit, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. On the Sea of Azov
August 2021. Berdiansk, Ukraine. Locals and vacationers by the Azov sea front in the port city of Berdiansk. Berdiansk is on the northern coast of the Sea of Azov. Berdiansk is the second largest Ukrainian sea port on the Sea of Azov after Mariupol.
August 2021. Mariupol, Ukraine. Artem Vlasov, 41, and his son Matvey at the beach near the Azovstal steelworks. Artem used to work at the steel plant, the major employer of the industrial city.
Berdiansk, Ukraine. August 2021. Tatiana, 75, was a pharmacist. She says the local fauna and flora are changing fast on the sea of Azov. There are fewer shellfishes, fishes and always more jelly fishes.. According to her, currents are also shifting and the famous local koca (sand spit) is getting narrower. The spit which until the early 2000s used to be a wild area has become overbuilt.
August 2021. Mariupol, Ukraine. Young Ukrainians swimming near the Mariupol sea port.
Berdiansk, Ukraine. August 2021. Sacha looking for valuables on the beach of the Sea of Azov.
Berdiansk, Ukraine. August 2021. Tanning by the Sea of Azov.
August 2021. Mariupol, Ukraine. The mariupol beach front and sea port in the background. The Kerch Strait is the only connection between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, and the only way to reach two important Ukrainian ports, Mariupol and Berdiansk.
Berdiansk, Ukraine. August 2021. Anatoli from Kharkov with his bird on the Berdiansk sea front.
August 2021. Berdiansk, Ukraine. Locals and vacationers by the Azov sea front in the port city of Berdiansk. Berdiansk is on the northern coast of the Sea of Azov, which is the northern extension of the Black Sea. Berdiansk is the second largest Ukrainian sea port on the Sea of Azov after Mariupol.
August 2021. Mariupol, Ukraine. View of the Azov Sea at dusk from the Santa Barbara night club.
August 2021. Mariupol, Ukraine.
August 2021. Mariupol, Ukraine. Vika and Lera, 17, from Mariupol.
August 2021. Mariupol, Ukraine. The beach front right next to the Azovstal steelworks. In 2018 Ukraine's Health Ministry warned the public to avoid swimming at any of the beaches around Mariupol. Mariupol residents are exposed to 10 times more industrial pollution than the average Ukrainian.
August 2021. Mariupol, Ukraine. The slag mountain of the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works on the Sea of Azov. The company, established in 1930 in the former USSR, produces and sells steel products worldwide. According to a Ukrainian Ecology Ministry report in 2016, Azov Stal produced 78,600 tons of atmospheric pollutants and poured 1.4 million cubic meters of waste into the Azov Sea.
Stepanivka Persha, Ukraine. August 2021. Concrete remnants in the Sea of Azov.
August 2021. Mariupol, Ukraine. The mariupol beach front and sea port in the background. The Kerch Strait is the only connection between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, and the only way to reach two important Ukrainian ports, Mariupol and Berdiansk.
