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A Nizhny Novgorod family with an infant was evicted from a historic building to make way for a hotel business.

Family Romana Suslova evicted from the dilapidated Sedov Estate on Studenaya, 49/6He is more than 10 years old fought He fought for the right to remain in the apartment where his grandparents had lived 90 years earlier, but lost. A representative of the new owner of the mansion, bailiffs, police, riot police, and a representative of the guardianship authorities arrived to evict the family. 

"I'm a Nizhny Novgorod resident. My grandparents lived in Nizhny Novgorod, my father and mother lived in Nizhny Novgorod. I'm a citizen of the Russian Federation, and everything is being taken away from me simply because the interests here are financial, they want to make money here."- сказал Roman before the bailiffs arrived. 

Suslov explained to the bailiffs that he and his wife had had a daughter three weeks ago and they simply had nowhere to live. In response, the senior bailiff Oksana Terentyeva She chided him: he should have thought in advance about where his children would live, since the upcoming forced eviction was known. 

The new owner of the estate is a commercial Revival organization, transferred compensation to the Suslovs - 6 million rubles for a three-room apartment in the city center. However, today in Nizhny Novgorod it's impossible to buy even a one-room apartment for that amount. is 1,5 million more expensive. The cost of a three-room apartment starts From 10 million rubles. The owner's representative declined to comment on the situation, citing the court's eviction order. He also declined to explain why the family was being evicted due to the building's dilapidated condition, and no one noted any obstacles to opening a hotel in a dilapidated building.

The Suslovs are not the only residents of Nizhny Novgorod left homeless due to the actions of the tourism industry. 

"We're also being evicted for pennies in Studena, and we can't buy a place downtown either. We should unite, but our lawyer said it's useless. We even wrote to the president."- wrote on social networks Larisa Koreva.  

The Suslovs and their baby were moved into a “crisis apartment” – a communal apartment in which they were given one room.



Photo: NN.RU