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The swamp belongs to the officials. The regional court sided with a Yaroslavl resident who was awarded land on a flooded plot.

Mother of two children Evgeniya Tryukova She received land in a swamp through the "Young Family" program. She was supposed to build a house there, but she couldn't even get there—the land ended up on a swamp into which streams flowed. The Yaroslavl court ruled that the allocation of such land was illegal. Evgenia appealed to the regional court.

Court of Fontaine отмениР» The first instance decision returned the land to municipal officials and reinstated Yaroslavna in the queue for receiving a building plot.

Tryukova received The family purchased a plot of land in 2021 and was initially unable to access it: the path was blocked by unauthorized structures. These were later demolished, and the family discovered a swamp, impassable even in rubber boots. The water didn't disappear in the summer. Yaroslavna complained to every authority, but no one helped. In the first-instance court, it was determined that the plot was located within the coastal boundaries of water bodies—it couldn't be privatized at all. But even this didn't help. The regional court put an end to this "wet" case.

This isn't the first example of regional authorities implementing federal programs for which funds are allocated. The Gorelchenkov family, a large family from Yaroslavl, also issued land on a flooded area. Near Kaluga, for a large family singled out areas without roads, water or other infrastructure, in Kuban - provided land in an open field. And to a large family from the Tver region issued land in a non-existent settlement, in an impenetrable forest.

Photo: "Soroka"