Sochi to open 65 beaches from June 1

According to Svetlana Batyaykina, Director of the Resorts and Tourism Department of the Sochi City Administration, the beaches will be available only for vacationing resorts, and for others access to the sea will be closed. The opening of all other beaches will be carried out in stages in accordance with the epidemiological situation. Svetlana Batyaykina noted that it all depends on the spread of the coronavirus.

In total, there are 190 beach areas in Sochi. They will be open to visitors in case of favorable conditions and the removal of the quarantine regime. At the same time, the readiness of the resort's beach areas today is 80-90 percent. On the beaches, painting and repair work is being completed, tenants are acquiring new equipment, work is underway to prepare the bottom, ensure safety, panic buttons, video alarm systems are installed.

As the Sochi administration emphasized, this year special attention on Sochi beaches will be paid to ensuring sanitary safety, compliance with measures and norms of social distance, and informing beach visitors. On the recommendation of Rospotrebnadzor, sunbeds will be placed at a considerable distance from each other. Additional designs, as in Europe, by the sea will not appear.