A method for producing fuel distillates from oil residual stock, including mixing the oil residual stock with sapropelite and a liquid aromatic additive, subjecting the resulting mixture to hydrogen or thermal cracking, and extracting desired products, characterized by subjecting the mixture, prior to said hydrogen or thermal cracking, to at least a double-stage homogenization in an activator at a temperature of 85-105° C., said liquid aromatic additive being a fraction of hydrogenated thermal or hydrogen cracking products boiling at 300-400° C. in the amount of 1 to 5 percent by mass with respect to the oil residual stock.