Legal anomaly: who sold the house along with the tenants?

      Today it has already been established that the building occupying a third of the block — from Komsomolskaya Street to Azina — has several co-owners: JSC "Management Systems" and three individuals who have a direct and managerial relationship with the Joint Stock Company. And the owners of the building are likely firmly convinced that nearly a hundred people, who have lived in what is now a dormitory for almost 40 years, are nothing more than ballast, "interfering with the development of their own business."

      And, in order to prevent "non-core human content" from getting in the way of enterprising feet, pensioners are offered to sign lease agreements, the amount of which often exceeds their pension income. Moreover, they are asked to pay rent for apartments that the "most vulnerable segments of the population" — grandmothers, grandfathers, and disabled individuals — consider their own, having arranged and renovated them to their liking since 1989.

      And "disagreeable and stubborn residents" are not allowed into the building, are not permitted to use the elevator, and have their electricity cut off. The verbal battles between residents and owners have almost turned into physical confrontations.

      A collective demarche

      As reported by Irina Morozova, a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Kirov Region, what alarmed her the most was the fact that when the owner speaks on every corner about the huge debt — from 260 to 400 thousand rubles owed by all "illegally residing" individuals, he does not go to court to demand the recovery of the arrears or the eviction of the debtors. And the first thing that comes to mind is that the applicant probably has no evidence for the publicly disseminated information. But at the same time, he is betting on the hindrance to business development.

      "When in May 27 people came to me with a complaint about 'arbitrariness', and this is not the number of victims, which is two to three times more, but the number of apartments, I did not promise to resolve the situation in the shortest possible time, nor did I guarantee that I would take the side of the residents. But I firmly assured that I would establish the entire chain of application of all the forces that formed the 'legal anomaly' a decade and a half ago, depriving people of their constitutional right to housing," says the deputy.

      As Irina Gennadyevna explained, the whole story began in the yard of the house at Nekrasova, 10-a, where residents complained that "Management Systems" illegally "seized" part of their yard. Neighbors from Gorky, 54-a also attended the meeting — it was then that the deputy first heard about the situation that had developed in the former dormitory.

      "Such tasks are not solved easily, and for those that formed in the last century, finding an answer is even more difficult. To begin with, all those who could participate in the process of changing the ownership of the building were invited to an interdepartmental meeting to figure out: whose initiative it was, who was the executor... Of course, I had documents provided by the residents — over the years of their struggle for their rights, mountains of 'papers with empty replies' from politicians, leaders, law enforcement agencies, and courts had accumulated. By the end of the meeting, we knew to whom — agencies, state institutions, and civil servants — we would be addressing. And I hope it was clear that answers 'about nothing' would not satisfy us," says Morozova.

      When a plan of action was formed, dozens of requests were sent out, with the ultimate goal of achieving legal clarity — a precise answer was required to the question: on what basis were pensioners, labor veterans, participants of the Special Military Operation, disabled individuals, and children essentially deprived of faith in the state.

      Big first steps

      By the way, when Newsler.ru was preparing the material for publication, the deputy reported news that could possibly change the entire course of the investigation. On June 28, 2026, Irina Morozova was informed (so far verbally) from the archive, where a request had been sent, that a document had been found notifying that the building at Gorky 54-a had been recognized as "collective property," and this was even before the first — in 1993 — transformation of the state structure into a Limited Liability Company (LLC).

      And no one has challenged the decision of the then-owner of the dormitory — the Kirovagropromproekt Institute, a state institution created in 1963 — to this day. So all subsequent changes in the status of the dormitory without a decision from the general meeting of residents can hardly be called legal.

      According to a source from the "gray house," Morozova has already taken a big step forward, grasping the main thread of the tangled schemes. After all, the point of no return can be considered the year 1999, when the LLC, where residents still had their shares, was transformed into a Closed Joint Stock Company. And so cunningly and silently that the residents of the house had no idea that they had transitioned from being fractional participants in collective ownership to shareholders. And shares — real and tangible documents, as the basic part of a new form of business organization — they neither saw nor held in their hands.

      "We, as before, attended meetings, but never voted on anything — we were simply informed, being told that everything would not just be good, but much better. And we took everything at face value, not only because of stupidity and legal illiteracy, but because we then believed in our country, which had given us apartments," assert the long-term residents of the dormitory to Newsler.ru.

      On form and content

      However, the transformations that logically followed the change in the form of ownership of the building at Gorky, 54-a initially did not disturb anyone. And only "by pure coincidence," usually from utility payment receipts or when losing veteran and other benefits, did residents develop "unpleasant suspicions."

      Then they transitioned to a stage of certainty when, during 18 years of apparent calm for the residents, someone, not sparing shares from the population, "accumulated" securities of the Closed Joint Stock Company. And their unhurried consolidation in the hands of a "narrow circle of individuals" allowed the Rosreestr in September 2017, possibly voluntarily or by suggestion or approval, to re-register the residential building as non-residential. Despite the fact that hundreds of families lived in it.

      In the same year, the "non-residential high-rise" was "transferred" to LLC "Management Company Gorky." And in August 2020, it passed into the ownership of JSC "Management Systems." After which the "legal owner" began to establish its own rules: everyone was to transition to lease agreements. But the dissenters, who considered their residence legal, referred to their registration in their passports and the orders they received.

      However, there was a "setback" with the orders: the documents regarding the transfer of apartments by the Institute for social rental with the right to indefinite residence (even in the event of dismissal or downsizing), which were kept by the dormitory administration, disappeared in an unknown direction. For some reason, the new owner was certainly aware of this, clarifying that the orders were lost in a fire.

      By the way, at the request of Irina Morozova, the archive is searching for those very "burned orders," not excluding the chance of finding them. And the deputy herself is not discouraged, as her investigation is still in the "information gathering stage."

      And the BTI has already provided an answer regarding the legality of "Kirov residents obtaining premises" 37 years ago. However, it added that some residents had temporary registration but with "the right to queue" (for receiving an apartment). This, in the opinion of Newsler.ru, can only be explained by the fact that the Institute provided housing not only to its employees — young specialists and families with children, but in the late 1980s transferred part of the apartments for the resettlement fund. Thus, families whose homes were being demolished, especially to free up land for the construction of kindergartens and schools, moved to Gorky, 54-a.

      Interestingly, if state organizations that record transactions and store archival documents provide the deputy with sufficiently complete answers, the city administration has produced a lengthy message that raises even more questions.

      Thus, the mayor's office reported that the city administration could not have been a participant in the transfer of the dormitory building to private individuals, as the building was not included in the list of municipal property. However, they are aware that, starting from 2008, "the alienation of premises took place on a paid basis." And the related documents are most likely stored in the city archive.

      Officials also reported that there is indeed a queue of several people waiting to receive their apartments. Moreover, the administration is ready to add all others currently living at Gorky, 54-a to the queue.

      By the way, if we roughly calculate the time of "queue placement," starting from the year 2000, the wait for "a few people" to receive their housing has already lasted more than a quarter of a century.

      "It is hard to contain emotions," when reading such an official response, especially understanding that pensioners who entered the housing queue this year need to be given an elixir of immortality. Because in waiting for housing, they will have to live another full life. And who