"Where's the logic?" The Leningrad Region Governor banned visitors to reservoirs in depleted quarries immediately after the consecration of a reservoir in Dubrovka.

Head of the region Alexander Drozdenko banned not just swimming, but visiting flooded quarries "in order to protect the life and health of people." The decree was issued in World Environment Day - on this day Hieromonk Procopius consecrated the pond at the Dubrovka quarry. People gather at this site build a landfill.

"Under police supervision served A water-blessing service. Together with Hieromonk Procopius, a resident of the Solovetsky Monastery, we recited an akathist to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker for the preservation of the man-made reservoir—the flooded Dubrovka quarry. It seems this lake is becoming a place of power; it attracts more and more good people, uniting them around itself."- Wrote activists in their VKontakte community.

A few hours later, the media reported Drozdenko's decree. The government banned people from entering the areas surrounding flooded quarries, allegedly due to the large number of drownings of swimmers in undesignated areas: According to the Leningrad Region Ministry of Emergency Situations, 57 fatalities were recorded in areas not designated for swimming between June and September 2022, 11 of which occurred in quarries..

"It's interesting, 57 fatalities in bodies of water. Eleven of them were in quarries. The remaining 46 were in some other bodies of water that, for some reason, weren't closed to the public. Where's the logic?"“— the local residents asked, but received no answer.

Residents of the Vsevolozhsky District have been fighting against the construction of a waste processing plant and landfill on the site of a quarry for several years. Recently, they didn't let to the pond to have a group picnic and record a video clip. And the vice governor for security Mikhail Ilyin saidthat “nomadic manipulators sponsored by Western funds are behind the actions at Dubrovka.”