"I need my pension." The owner of a gardening community billed the summer residents for access to their plots.
Summer residents of SNT «Dubrovka on the Volga» в Kstovsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region They found themselves in an awkward situation: the landowner is forcing them to lease a public road, threatening to cut off their power if they don't.
Oleg Kuznetsov, from whom people bought plots, decided to collect 1 thousand rubles per month from each household for using the road. He addressed to members of SNT:
"I'm giving you priority tenancy rights. So, make your decision, or don't, I don't care. I'm no good wizard, I'm old, and I need my pension.".
The property owners believe Kuznetsov is acting illegally: firstly, properties can't exist without public roads, and secondly, there are no roads at all—just ruts buried in muddy mud. Kuznetsov counters: this isn't a road, but his plot of land, which he can dispose of as he sees fit.
“I’m not going to transfer anything anywhere [to the public domain], it’s my constitutional right!” — Kuznetsov stated.
If the SNT members refused to lease the road, Kuznetsov threatened to hand it over to third parties who would be able to build whatever they wanted on it, depriving the summer residents of their plots. He also promised to shut off the water to the "rebels," as he owned the utilities.
"Then he'll ask for rent for nothing," "Greedy," "A wonderful example of how laws work in the Russian Federation," Nizhny Novgorod residents commented on the situation.
In some gardening associations and cottage communities, events are taking place that can hardly be called legal. In another gardening association in the same region, pensioners' plots and houses are handed over to an entrepreneur under the beach, in another gardening community built apartment building. In the Ivanovo SNT flooded 100 summer cottages, and the authorities turned a blind eye to the problem.
Photo: screenshots from the program "By the Way"
