Krasnodar residents demanded the mayor's resignation over a road under their windows.

City residents are protesting government plans to build a road near apartment buildings. They say that instead of addressing the problems of courtyards and street infrastructure, the administration is planning to reroute transit traffic into a residential area.

As reported by Kavkazsky Uzel, in early December, residents of Kurchatov Street in Krasnodar called on authorities to reconsider plans to build a road on the site of a green recreation area near their homes. Their appeals to officials have gone unanswered, they complained.

Pavel Sokolenko, a member of the Kuban Legislative Assembly and leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) faction, sent a request to Governor Veniamin Kondratyev to consider a collective complaint from residents of Kurchatov Street in Krasnodar, City Duma Deputy Alexander Safronov reported on his Telegram channel.

Residents claim they have repeatedly attempted to establish a dialogue with the mayor's office, but there has been no response. They claim that Krasnodar Mayor Yevgeny Naumov and his subordinates have failed to engage in meaningful discussions about the project with residents of more than a dozen buildings.

As a result, residents have demanded the mayor's resignation. Since, by law, the right to remove the mayor from office belongs to the governor, the corresponding parliamentary inquiry was addressed to Veniamin Kondratyev. We will inform you about the response, wrote Alexander Safronov.

At the end of November, a public gathering was held in Krasnodar against the construction of a new highway, which is planned to run from Rostovskoye Shosse along Kurchatov Street and onto 40th Anniversary of Victory Street. Dozens of local residents attended the meeting.

Residents stated their categorical opposition to the highway being built next to residential buildings. According to activists, the project threatens to turn the lives of 5,000 people into constant noise and traffic jams, and the authorities are effectively shifting the consequences of their own failed urban development policies onto the population. Residents are confident that the multi-billion dollar costs will not solve the city's transportation problems.

City Duma Deputy Alexander Safronov noted at the time that Mayor Yevgeny Naumov's administration is failing to engage in normal dialogue with residents, and that any documents have to be "snatched and clawed" out of officials. According to the organizers, residents signed willingly due to dissatisfaction with the authorities' response to the protests.

Remember, residents of Krasnodar's Yubileyny microdistrict are also fighting to preserve the green recreation area. They are demanding that construction on Rozhdestvenskaya Embankment, where a church is planned—the third in the microdistrict—be prevented. On November 30, hundreds of neighborhood residents gathered to record a video message to the governor.

Earlier, despite numerous protests from Yubileyny residents, Krasnodar authorities rejected all objections to the embankment development, but took into account the position of those supporting the church construction. Residents are confident that only the attention of federal authorities will help prevent the development of the green recreation area. Together with representatives of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, they began collecting signatures demanding the resignation of Mayor Yevgeny Naumov.

In September 2024, activists in the Yubileyny neighborhood collected signatures for a petition to the governor against the development of the Rozhdestvenskaya Embankment. More than 3,000 signatures were collected. Residents of the neighborhood actively protested against the development of the embankment, explaining that it was the only major recreation area in the neighborhood. However, in November 2024, city council deputies adopted a new general plan despite their protests.

"Caucasian Knot" also reported that residents of the Muzykalny neighborhood in Krasnodar recorded an appeal for the Russian president's direct line, in which they complained about the state of the roads and the lack of garbage collection. According to them, appeals to local authorities have not yielded results.