23 March 2026
(PHOTO: Typical Ackerman/Facebook)
A landslide that led to the destruction of part of the coast was recorded recently near the village of Sanzhiyka in Odesa district.
The videoof the landslide was posted by local residents on Facebook.
Landslides on the coast in the village occur almost every year. Thus, the landslide that has been observed for several years near the village of Sanzhiika in Odesa district continued to grow in April 2025.
Sanzhiika is a small resort village located on the Black Sea coast, 35 kilometers from Odesa.
In 1792, a military post was founded on the Black Sea coast near the dangerous place where underwater currents from the Bosphorus and the Kerch Strait meet, consisting of a watchtower and a dugout where soldiers on duty were housed. To warn ships, nautical flags were hung on the tower during the day and lanterns at night.
In 1921, the Sanzhi lighthouse was founded, and the old building was built in 1956. In the area of the lighthouse, as a result of soil erosion, coastal collapses are frequent, and in late 2010, the new lighthouse building was moved further away from the coastline, which came too close to the lighthouse.
In June 2024, rescuers from the State Emergency Service pulled a 59-year-old man out from under a landslide in the village of Sanzhiika, Odesa Oblast.
Landslides are a negative natural phenomenon that has been accompanying the Odesa coast for almost two thousand years since the beginning of the development of these cities in antiquity. Experts count more than 250 landslides on the outskirts of Odesa only for the period from 1797 to the present (before 1797, there is practically no true information about landslides on the coast in the vicinity of Kochubiyevo - Khadzhibey).
In November 2017, a large-scale landslide in Chornomorsk began to move. A number of houses that had been on the same level as the others last year moved down the slope.
Кирило Бойко