13 October 2025
(Landslide in Fontanka. PHOTO: Fontanka village council)
The Fontanka village council in Odesa region has decided to ask the Odesa National Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture to assess the danger of a landslide that intensified after a downpour on September 30.
According to the village council, the landslide in the village of Fontanka on Sonyachna Street is not new and this area has been in the danger zone every year.
"We have reconnected the power grid and zoned the danger area," the village council reported.
Back on September 3, a crack appeared at the site of the landslide, and the area was fenced off, but after heavy rains, the ground began to move. About 100 meters of soil above the sea broke off and slowly began to fall down. Not only the houses above, but also dozens of houses located near the water below are in danger.
Fontanka is a village in the Odesa district (formerly in the Lyman district) of the Odesa region. It is the administrative center of the Fontanka village community. It is located on the Black Sea coast, 17 kilometers from the regional center, next to the villages of Kryzhanivka, Oleksandrivka, Vapnyarka and the village of Lisky.
On September 30, a heavy rainstorm hit Odesa region. In Odesa, 11 people died during the storm - nine drowned, including a family of five in their home, and two others died of heart attacks caused by stress while being caught in the city's current.
Landslides are not a new hazard in the Odesa region. In May, the authors of the Zootopia channel, which systematically documents landslides in the coastal areas of Odesa Oblast, reported that landslides were occurring on the coast near Chornomorka, where they recorded the gradual destruction of the coastline. In their video, they showed how Lustdorf is slowly sliding into the sea: the slopes are crumbling, washed away by rain and waves, and in some places, you can already see the gaps where there were once paths, buildings, and even beaches.
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 slid down the slope.
In February 2021, another landslide also occurred in Chornomorsk.
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