Some 11 kilometres of coastline are contaminated after an oil spill from the Nadezhda tanker, carrying some 800 tonnes of oil products. Environmentalists and volunteers conducted a campaign to clean up shoreline and rescue birds. On December 8, a 67 meters long mound approaching tanker was built. Oil spill devastation along Far Eastern coast - in this photo gallery by TASS
Oil spill devastation along Far Eastern coast
Environmentalists and volunteers conducted a campaign to clean up shoreline and rescue birds
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Some 11 kilometres of coastline are contaminated after an oil spill from the Nadezhda tanker, carrying some 800 tonnes of oil products
© Sergei Krasnoukhov/TASS Workers removing crude oil along the shoreline during a clean up operation after the tanker Nadezhda hit a reef during a storm on November 28 near the port city of Nevelsk, about 90 kilometres south west of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin Island in Russia's Far East
© AP Photo/Sergey Krasnoukhov On December 8, a 67 meters long mound approaching tanker was built
© Danil Demkin/TASS Rescuers continued pumping oil
© Danil Demkin/TASS Environmentalists and volunteers conducted a campaign to clean up shoreline and rescue birds. Of 69 birds affected by oil spill, only 9 survived
© Vyacheslav Kozlov/TASS Birds affected by an oil spill
© Vyacheslav Kozlov/TASS Bags of contaminated sand collected by workers in a clean up effort
© Danil Demkin/TASS