The residents of Irkutsk are called the “kingdom of the Snow Queen” the fourth and fifth floors of their dormitory. India and ice on the walls appeared this winter as a result of severe frosts and fumes from the basement, in which hot water constantly flows through torn pipes. In recent years, public utilities have not been serving this building. The dilapidated pipes breaks every day. In the right side of the hostel, residents repairs them on their own, but in the opposite side to the basement cannot be obtained due to stalagmites, approximately those that grew at the entrance to the first entrance.

This is a former hostel of the Irkutsk Higher Military Aviation Engineering School (IVVAIU) disbanded in 2009. After the liquidation of the university, some of his former workers remained in the hostel. At first there were about thirty families, but many found the opportunity to move.

Today, only three families remain here, who at one time provided the school for the school - they claim to be housing (eight more families entered the hostel arbitrarily). Until 2016, the hostel belonged to the Russian Ministry of Defense, and after the closing of the school, people demanded that the military department resettle them.

"Beautiful paper with the monstering of the golden monitoring came from the Ministry of Regional Development and it was said that yes, you have the right to housing, you have purchased this right from the Ministry of Defense. Contact the body of the Ministry of Defense that is engaged in the Housing program. For a long time we did not receive answers to our appeal from the Ministry of Defense. But when we got a response, we were informed that our military town is already opened, and that means that it was already open We have lost the right to receive housing, ”the former employee of Ivvaiu, many children, Yuri Chuprin , told Siberia. Realii.

In 2016, the Chuprins family learned from the response to their next appeal to the Ministry of Defense, which the department transferred the building of the city administration of Irkutsk. The military recommended that the Irkutskar resolve the issue of improving housing conditions with local officials. People turned to the city hall. The officials replied to them that the Ministry of Defense did not give them the land on which the hostel stands, and they cannot register ownership of the building. And this, in turn, prevents them from raising people. At the same time, the authorities admit that the dormitory of the emergency and families have the right to extraordinary resettlement.

“The left side of the hostel is the worst. The slabs are destroyed. Hot water is constantly running in the basement. The seams are pouring. The seams are pouring. The reinforcement in corrosion. I think that if the collapse of the building begins, then from this side,” says Irkutska Natalya Chuprina .


From constant dampness, concrete is destroyed, stairs and window openings are scattered. “It’s very scary. When you sleep at night, you hear how the walls give a sound. We hear a stone, plaster falls upstairs. It is impossible to live,” says Kinzhaev, a resident of the destructive hostel.

Very soon, hoarfrost and ice from the walls and ceiling will melt and drain along the interpanel seams, destroying them even more. The residents of the hostel are very afraid, no matter how the earthquake does not happen, which are quite possible in their seismic area. They are sure that their hostel will definitely not withstand shocks.

