In Kabardino-Balkaria, 29 families live in emergency house

In the settlement of Adiyukh, located in the suburb of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, a five-story 60-apartment house, where 29 families still live, is in emergency condition.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told at the city administration that in 1980s the house was started by the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Kabbalknefteprodukt" for its workers on the condition of their shared participation.

In 2002, Director General of the above OJSC Valery Kardanov refused to continue the construction of the house because of financial problems and offered the shareholders either to wait for better days or to finish the construction themselves. Fearing to remain without housing whatsoever and lose their money, the shareholders chose the second option and signed a contract that they had no claims to the developer.

In 2001, residents, who had nowhere to live, moved into the unfinished house, which was not taken on balance by any communal agency. The house had no gas, electricity, water, heating, and - most important - it had no roof. The roof is still absent.

Residents tried to somehow improve their house. They connected electricity directly from a power line - without a switchboard, and installed autonomous heating systems in their flats. However, the roofless house, with its basement full of precipitations and sewage drains, began to crumble. One of the walls has a 5-7 cm wide crack from top to basement, which grows every day. Walls in apartments split apart, and balconies drop down.

The people turned to the administration of Nalchik for help. However, according to the authorities, they are unable to provide 29 new apartments to the poor families.