From Iskozh out: in Neftekamsk, an enterprise evicts firefighters from official housing

In the city of Neftekamsk of the Republic of Bashkortostan, the company Iskozh JSC evicts former employees of the fire station from service apartments. On the street may be more than 30 people living in a barracks on Yanaulskaya street. Three families have already received notice of the need to leave the hut, three more - in line for eviction.

Apartments from the union

The building on Yanaulskaya Street was built for the Third Fire Protection Unit (3-OPPO) in the early 1970s. This nondescript three-story green building, standing against the background of factory floors, smoking pipes and power lines. Behind the house there is a small playground, a greenhouse and a plot for gardens. The first floor was reserved for the needs of the fire station, two more - for official housing, consisting of eight apartments and eight rooms ranging from 14 to 27 square meters. m

3-OPPO was assigned to the Iskoz textile enterprise, which opened in 1970 in Neftekamsk, as it was literally a hundred meters from the plant. The depot's area of ​​responsibility included the entire city and the nearest villages, and its employees participated in the suppression of large fires. A total of 60 people worked in the detachment - four guards of 15 firemen per shift. The union's executive committee provided apartment workers in need of housing. Social loan agreements or hand warrants were not issued to them.

In the 90s, Iskozh was privatized, and then twice changed the form of a joint-stock company, first becoming a CJSC, then an AO. 3-OPPO continued to be registered at the enterprise and functioned. In 2014, the depot was closed, its main building was leased for warehouses with vegetables, and equipment was sold.

According to court documents that RT got acquainted with, in 2012 Iskozh JSC won an arbitration dispute with the municipal authorities - the house of the fire station was left to the enterprise under the “right to use”, it was recognized as “non-residential” and “without burdens”, although it had been in it for decades people lived.

The court documents indicate the address Yanaulskaya street, 1B. A plate with the same number now hangs on the building itself. At the same time, in the registration for all residents, another address is indicated - Yanaulskaya, 1. In the old extracts from the house book, the address of the house is also indicated without a letter.

Most of the depot workers who had already retired by this time remained in official apartments, all the more so since no one required to leave home. In 2015, residents even received a letter from Iskozh CEO Liana Kirshina that the company plans to transfer the house on Yanaulskaya to municipal ownership.

With things out

As residents of the house told RT, in mid-2019, bailiffs suddenly evicted one of the residents of the house Denis Yakupov, presenting a court order. Yakupov worked for several years as a firefighter in a depot.

A man is serving under a contract in Chechnya, and at that moment his ex-wife with a small child lived in an apartment on Yanaulskaya. Family things were put out, and a woman with a baby had to urgently look for a roof over her head.

The next notice from the court was received by 45-year-old Marat Zarafutdinov, who worked in the fire department as the squad leader and guard chief for 17 years. In fact, Zarafutdinov on Yanaulskaya recently did not live - his apartment was empty. However, the man did not want to part with the housing allocated many years ago and tried to challenge the court's decision on eviction, but did not succeed. In Iskozha, Zarafutdinova was told that since he has a mortgage apartment, he does not need former office housing.

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“I worked for this plant for 17 years, and now I work in the fire department,” Zarafutdinov said in an interview with RT. - The apartment was given to me by the executive committee and the employer, everything was legal. The orders and decisions of the trade union were stored in the safe of the enterprise, and now I do not know how to get them. On June 25, 2019, there was a court ruling that I give the keys and vacate the premises. ”

The decision of the court of appeal on Zarafutdinov’s lawsuit stated that “the use of the disputed premises adapted for living in a non-residential building does not indicate that the legal relations that have developed between the parties fall within the characteristics relating to the social tenancy of the dwelling”. It is also indicated that Zarafutdinov never worked directly for Iskozh JSC.

In addition, the rooms and apartments were declared indivisible by the court from the general non-residential building.

“The presence in the building of the firehouse of premises intended for the residence of the personnel of the fire department, taking into account the fact that the building is non-residential in general, does not in itself entail the inclusion of such premises in the housing stock,” the court decision said.

The third on the eviction list in 2019 was 59-year-old Arsen Sairanov, who lives with his two daughters and their children. Sairanov told RT that he had worked as a driver for almost 30 years in a depot.

According to the man, Iskozh has not yet filed a lawsuit against him, but the company is threatening to do so if he refuses to leave the apartment voluntarily. Sairanov lives “on the suitcases” and has already sold part of the furniture. Where to go after the eviction, he does not know yet.

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Three more families told RT that they had already received a request from the company to vacate the premises, despite the fact that they had no other place to stay. Other residents are waiting for similar "letters of happiness." According to the residents of the house, Iskozh intends to evict them in order to use apartments for visiting workers from India.

At the same time, the majority of tenants are pensioners who do not even have the means to make a down payment on a mortgage, not to mention buying a new home.

Uninhabited house with tenants

Despite the fact that the house was declared uninhabited by the court, tenants are forced to pay the plant as "residential" premises for housing and communal services. And although the enterprise takes money from them “for major repairs”, the residents have to take care of the building themselves.

According to the elder housewife Raili Islamova, it is necessary to patch the leaking roof, to paint the walls in the porches.

“Our house is old, the bricks are half fallen out, the walls are blowing. My husband every year cleans the roof after snowfalls and repairs it. Batteries barely warm, so at home we go in clothes. Iskozh collects money for repairs, ”says RT Islamova.

According to the interlocutor, with the beginning of the process for evicting former firefighters, Iskozh turned off hot water and gas throughout the house.

“Prior to this, the enterprise has repeatedly organized“ raids ”with a census of passport data of people in apartments,” the manager said.

Burdened eviction

Lawyer Juliet Volkovskaya, who represents the interests of residents in court, intends to seek a review of the 2012 arbitration award.

“Why was the house“ without burdens ”when people lived there for 40 years,” Volkovskaya said in a conversation with a RT correspondent. - How did they get a residence permit then? It is also unknown where “Iskozh” files all documents, warrants, social security agreements. Why the arbitration indicated the address of the house as “1B”, although everywhere it is simply under the number “one”.

In turn, Iskozh CEO Liana Kirshina told RT that the house on Yanaulskaya was always in the sanitary zone of the plant and the electrical substation, so the building was non-residential from the very beginning.

Kirshina noted that the company only evicts those who do not actually live in the house, even though all other obligations to the former depot employees had a different legal entity.

The representative of the company did not answer other questions of RT, referring to employment.

The administration of Neftekamsk RT reported that only those families that own other residential premises were evicted from the house.

“Earlier, two families that owned other residential premises were evicted in court. Occupied premises in the building of the fire station, these citizens leased to third parties. There are no grounds for providing citizens with other comfortable residential premises. According to Iskozh JSC, eviction of citizens from the occupied premises is not carried out, ”officials say.

At the same time, the city administration notes that based on the appeals of residents in 2019, the city applied to Iskozh with a request to consider the possibility of transferring the building free of charge to municipal ownership for their subsequent transfer to citizens in privatization order.

“According to the answer of Iskozh JSC, this building is a single, indivisible property complex, transfer of its individual non-residential premises to municipal property is impossible, as well as the transfer of non-residential premises as residential, since the building is located in the sanitary protection zone of an industrial enterprise,” they say City Hall.