Reserves and Distribution of Sand Capacities on the Marine Underwater Coastal Slope of the Anapa Bay-Bar

The Anapa sandy bay-bar and the territories bordering it occupy one of the leading places in Russia as a recreational sanatorium-resort area, sea tourism and children’s recreation, the role of which as a resort of federal significance has now significantly increased. Unfortunately, in recent decades, areas with progressive erosion have been observed on the seashore of this bay-bar. To substantiate the forecast of further development of the coast and the choice of ways to stabilize it, a number of studies have been carried out, including the determination of sand reserves from which the bay-bar is composed, a number of measures for their conservation have been proposed and potential replenishment opportunities have been considered. The presented work considered and analyzed the results of geophysical studies on the marine underwater coastal slope of the Anapa bay-bar, first performed to assess the volume and distribution of wave field sand deposits within the coastal zone as a possible source of beach formation and, accordingly, an increase in the volume of sand in the bay-bar as a whole.