Residents of Stavropol complained about attempts to deprive them of land plots

Residents of the village of Yessentukskaya stated in a video message that they had received lawsuits demanding that the municipality return land plots privatized many years ago. The Investigative Committee reported that it had begun an investigation into the residents' complaint.

A video message from residents of the village of Yessentukskaya in the Predgorny District was posted on July 17 in the Pyatigorsk Online Telegram channel. The footage shows 13 people of different ages, and one of the women reads the message from a piece of paper on behalf of those gathered.

Residents explained that they were appealing to the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin, Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov, and the Chairperson of the Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko with a request to look into the violation of their "constitutional rights." When the appeal was recorded is not specified in the video or in the publication.

Over 200 families have faced this problem

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The court in Yessentuki sided with the residents of the house in the dispute over eviction

The Yessentuki City Court satisfied the claim of the Tikhonov family, who challenged the mayor's office's demand to evict them from the house.

"Landowners throughout the Predgorny District of the Stavropol Territory unexpectedly faced lawsuits against us from the district administration, in which we are accused of illegally seizing municipal lands. However, these lands were demarcated, we have all the documents confirming ownership, as well as the purchase of these land plots. It turns out that the plots that belong to us by right, where our houses are located, our only housing, require that they be returned to municipal ownership," the video message says.

The owners have all the title documents, the authors of the video emphasized. "Many plots and houses were purchased through mortgage loans or through state programs, such as the presidential program "Young Family", and our children are equity holders. Moreover, over 200 families with minor children have encountered this problem," they said.

Our documents passed all checks, without them we would not have been able to participate in state programs

Residents of the village asked to "intervene in the situation and protect the rights of ordinary residents." "Why do we, ordinary residents, suffer because of possible negligence or unprofessionalism of those who conducted land surveying and distribution of plots? Our documents passed all the checks, without them we would not have been able to participate in state programs, receive mortgages. And now it turns out that this land for which we paid money is not ours. This is simply unthinkable. We cannot answer and bear responsibility for those who made these mistakes," the appeal says.

In another part of the video, recorded there, another woman explains that the land survey was conducted in 2008. "Our land plots were put on cadastral registration. And only in 2024, 16 years later, a cadastral engineer's conclusion appears, according to which our land plots should be removed from the cadastral register based on a court decision. After all the statute of limitations expired, the administration went to court and is trying to prove in court that our land plots were acquired illegally," said a resident of the village.

The Investigative Committee responded to the residents' appeal. "The Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia instructed to submit a report on the results of the procedural review and on the arguments of the appeal of residents of the Stavropol Territory about the violation of their rights," says a publication posted on July 17 on the Telegram channel of the Investigative Committee of Russia information center.