Tenants of 109-year-old Sochi house demand to recognize its emergency status

The house in Sochi built in 1908, inhabited by the Beletsky family, has become completely unfit for residence and threatens to collapse.

According to Tamara Beletskaya, an apartment in this house was "granted to her parents by the enterprise where they worked." In the house, her two kids and two grandsons were born, Tamara told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

According to her story, the officials "refuse to recognize the house’s state of emergency and find it sufficient for her whole family." The woman complained that the house "has no sewage, no heating and no gas supply – it has electricity only."

Other family members have added that there is even no Internet in the house, because providers refuse to connect the dilapidated house thereto."

"All of us, five persons, live in one room; because of the tightness, we sleep in bunk beds," said Inna Zubova, Tamara's daughter.

In 2015, the city Mayor ordered to exclude the family from the waiting list of those in need of other housing.

The Beletskies’ house in Sukhumi Highway has not been recognized as an emergency building, said Alexandra Barysheva, an official from the Sochi Mayoralty’s infrastructure department.

In his turn, the lawyer Alexander Boichenko believes the Mayoralty's and courts’ arguments to be groundless. According to his version, the family has the right to have three separate apartments.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.