Lev Usyskin: The house in which I live

There are things that are very beneficial from transfers into a written form. Bulwhing in the brain, of course, they create a certain likeness of a common impression on themselves, but often it gapes in groats: a mental impression instantly - and food for him, that is, the original memories, should also come up instantly - the late here do not count. Another thing is paper: there is time to remember everything, build a chain of facts, and then ... Well, yes - to the point.

In the house where I live today, we moved ten years ago, in February 2001 it was an old brick building, 1900 buildings with wooden ceilings on metal beams about five floors and 21 apartments - all about the same layout - four -room 75-100 square meters. m, in addition to three on the ground floor, reduced to three rooms due to built -in garages and two on the fifth, which are the result of the separation of one typical into two. By St. Petersburg standards, the house is in good condition for their age, without serious distortions, destruction, cracks, etc. All this is located in the Petrograd district, i.e. - Center, five minutes on foot from the metro.

I’ll try to make a register of changes that have happened to the house over the past ten years.

Let's start with the approaches. Parking in front of the house in 2001 took 8-9 cars for a night vacation: a very middle-aged van-carbon car GAZ 3307, an old minibus Volkswagen-transporter, three as used foreign cars and about the same amount of domestic cars, it seems, is also not new-one and not at all on the move. Today, the same parking is as follows: the owner of that truck moved to the new Ford-Transit minibus. The owner of the conveyor replaced him (for the second time) to a new one. The total number of cars in the parking lot has grown to 17 - it no longer fit, and the rest formed the parking from the other side of the house. Of these 17, only one is the products of AvtoVAZ in its purest form. All the others are usually quite new, although mostly inexpensive foreign cars (all sorts of Kia Ced, Renault Logan da Honda Stepwgn).

Now the house is actually. Over the past time, the heating system and the cold water supply system have been completely replaced in it - according to the municipal program (there is no hot water supply in the house in principle - there are gas speakers in the apartments). The entrances (ceremonial and two blacks) were repaired. The municipality has new mailboxes (moderate vandal resistance).

An iron front door with a code lock was also installed - the tenants themselves threw themselves on both, but did not throw themselves to the service. As a result, those who do not have Dallas tablets are simply typing a factory pre -installation code with a finger: 123456.

The rafters of the roof were replaced, the roof itself was repaired, as well as about half of the heads of smoke / ventilation pipes. Partly replaced the power electrical design - including distribution kiosks located in a neighboring house. However, the power supply remains a weak point of our engineering networks - there is not enough power, the current is supplied along the air line, unauthorized connections of neighboring garages occurs periodically, etc. Two emergency segments of the sewer pipe are also replaced. These are, so to speak, general changes.

Now - about private changes. At the time of our instilling, there were two metal -plastic windows out of 153 in the house. Actually, these were the windows of my kitchen. Today, such windows are 57. Similarly, I was the only owner of a normal beautiful and strong metal door in the house - now there are three, well, four of these doors.

What happened inside the apartments, I, of course, are not too known. But some grades can be made. So, the serious movement of the apartment owners during this time did not occur. One communal apartment was settled, as they say, from the inside, and high -quality repairs were made in it. Another apartment, which was the haven of a crazy old woman’s woman, her fourteen dogs and millions of flies, was “cleared” with black realtors: the old woman was found dead in a long forest park, and the apartment, or rather, belonging to her three rooms, were already disinfected and re-produced by conscientious to conscientious. the acquirer. In general, on the upper floors, privatized and non -suppressed communal services prevail, often handed over to the represents - their population changes so intensively that I cannot distinguish between neighbors from non -show. There is no elevator in the house, and therefore these upper floors - 4 and 5 - almost have no chance of the external resettlement of their communal apartments.

These are the resulting changes. Now about how it was all. The main event for ten years was, of course, the construction of another - so to speak, elite, so to speak. Against this project by residents of all houses of the quarter, an active struggle was waged-although different houses were active in different ways: we were not too thin among the wrestlers, since we suffered to a lesser extent than those from whom the new building grew right in front of the windows. As a result, the project managed to: 1) to greatly reduce in the scale and 2) detain the beginning of the construction of the year by two - all this time the developer paid for the lease of the site and its protection, the knowledgeable people estimated its losses from a delay of a million - one and a half dollars. Not without our noise, the developers were forced to use more expensive technologies when digging the foundation of the foundation, excluding the movement of the neighboring foundation (and not as at two other objects of the same developer where the walls of neighboring houses cracked). And after the start of work, three of our apartment owners achieved individual compensation from the developer somewhere around $ 5,000 to each: the new building blocked the view from a small additional window in the kitchens (in other apartments these windows were laid down for so long). In addition, according to the investment agreement with the city, the developer just completed the roof and entrances in our house. Such are the realities of sealing development.

More about self -organization and civil society. Apartments in the house - 21, owners - a little more. It would seem - expanse for self -government, especially since there is an enthusiast among these owners - a woman with sufficient energy and profile (construction) education. It is characteristic that she is not a native of St. Petersburg-she moved here from Tashkent in the early 90s. Nevertheless,

Almost all of her attempts to mobilize people for joint actions ended in failure. The exception, and even then it can only be considered a campaign to capture without any legal grounds for the same parking in front of the house

-The residents of the automobile owners organizedly cleared the site of the past catastrophic winter, marked it under their cars, mounted metal columns and pulled wire barriers between them. The initiator agreed with the ZhES that they would look at the self -custody through their fingers, which they did several months - then they demolished everything to hell at once. In general, this same ZhES serves the house from the hands bad even against the backdrop of other similar ones. It would seem that it can be changed - there is even someone: the neighboring house is served not as an example of better and, of course, for the same money. And at the same time, when concluding a new contract, make the necessary nuances to it - for example, the mandatory acceptance of cleaning stairs from a representative of the residents. It is only worth the majority of apartment owners to put their signatures - and the initiative woman will make the rest herself. But no: the signatures to put most of the tenants refuse to be under all kinds of obscure prepositions. It is clear that the reasons are not in consciousness, but, as they say, in the subconscious:

The psychology of our neighbors tells them that ZhES is not a service service, but rather, the authorities, but from the authorities to run away and even demand something is fraught. You can only ask, and individually. Of course, if someone wants to do something for others, shows the initiative, then this is a crook, and since his profit is incomprehensible, it becomes even more suspicious.

In general, our staircase if anyone is now washing, then just the same woman-initiator and another man from the third floor, who lived for several years in Israel. Free and on your own initiative. So we live.