Cold weather has come to homeless residents of Krymsk

In Krymsk, flood-affected residents of the private sector continue to be resettled in apartments. Following the Ozerki microdistrict, where more than one and a half thousand families moved in September, housewarming will be celebrated in the Nadezhda microdistrict in November.

"Nadezhda" is three multi-storey buildings with 369 apartments. The design of the facade of high-rise buildings - light pink fading into dark brown stripes at the bottom of the buildings - some bloggers have already compared the design to traces of a flood.

PublicPost talked to Crimeans on the eve of housewarming.

The ceremonial distribution of the first keys to Nadezhda took place on November 1

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Galina Kovalenko, waiting to move into "Nadezhda"

We had a house, 55 sq. m plus a bath with a kitchen. The plot with the house is standard, six acres. After the flood, the house was looked at by two commissions, and both declared it to be in disrepair - ready for demolition. And then it somehow appeared on the list for major repairs. We called an independent expert, and the results of this examination were brought to court. The court ordered the house to be demolished. And we received a certificate.

There are four of us: me, my husband and two children. For all of us, we have 2 million 400 thousand rubles in compensation. Enough for an apartment, but the cheapest houses start from 3 million rubles. Now we are preparing to move. However, we haven’t seen the apartments yet. They promised to give us an apartment on November 1st. Now it has been postponed to November 9th. We are waiting. We only know that the first house, second entrance, sixth floor and that it is a three-room apartment - 78 sq. m. m. The apartment number was given to me four days ago. In the meantime, we are all living with friends. They moved in immediately after the flood.

The houses were built not far from our site, but on a hill, so that if the flood reoccurs, the water will not reach them. The coloring of "Nadezhda" does not bother us. We are only worried because no documents have been completed yet.

In general, living in a private house is, of course, better. I have a child with cerebral palsy, so he spent the whole summer outside, and we installed a pool for him, because in our city we don’t have a pool for such children. So we will also slowly rebuild the house on our site. And there is already a vegetable garden. We'll plant it next year with cucumbers and tomatoes.

Governor Alexander Tkachev inspected the apartments of new residents

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Fatima Maitykova, lives in a tent, buys an apartment on the secondary market

I am 46 years old. I work as a painter and plasterer. I live with two daughters. One is nine years old and goes to school. The other one is nineteen, and she works with me, helps. I have another daughter studying in Rostov-on-Don, and the other is already married, so she lives separately in Anapa.

Our house collapsed after the flood. It was demolished a long time ago. I bought
three-person tent, placed it under a canopy on the site. This is how we live.
But yesterday we spent the night with a neighbor. We asked to see her because it was already cold (in Krymsk the temperature now ranges from +5 to +10 - editor's note). She also had a flood, but the house survived. Now she is doing repairs and I am helping her.

We have to move soon. We received a certificate for the purchase of an apartment. The deposit has already been paid. All that remains is to sign the contract and that’s it. But this, perhaps, is all we care about. They made the document, put it in and that’s it. When volunteers arrived, the neighbors took humanitarian aid, and I worked. I leave home at eight in the morning and only return at one or two in the morning. I had no time.

For example, here was the headquarters. You run to the headquarters, they shrug their shoulders: “What are we going to do, we have nothing!” I needed a fence, it was carried away by the water, and without a fence they came to me and stole. They told me: “Buy the materials, we will supply them for you.” I bought the materials and hired people to do it for me. They seem to be helping us, but nothing is visible anywhere. I do everything myself, I earn money myself, I don’t go to anyone and don’t ask for bread. I used to work at the market and trade, but I quit and went to work in construction. I plaster and putty for pennies, because I need to live.

I will use my plot as a vegetable garden. I have a big family, we need to feed everyone. You can't buy enough food. And so I have my own potatoes, tomatoes, onions, cucumbers and carrots. I will not restore the house. I can't. I am alone with two girls, my husband died.