An orphan in the Volgograd region received an apartment unfit for habitation.

Officials in the Volgograd region gave Saule Saparova the apartment she was legally entitled to, but it is unfit for habitation due to damaged walls and unsanitary conditions.

Saul Saparova's complaint about officials providing her with unfit housing in Pallasovka was published on June 24th on the VKontakte social media page by the Association for the Protection of Orphans' Rights.

"This year, our basement flooded and mold appeared. The apartment is damp and full of cockroaches. We barely got them to pump out the basement. Someone on the first floor even had some flooding. The plaster is also falling off, so I had to hire people to putty it and wallpaper it," the complaint states.

Saparova added that the building is in a dilapidated condition. "The wall is cracking, the house is sinking, the windows are hard to close. I don't know what to do. We haven't lived in this apartment for even two years, and everything is already in a deplorable state," she noted.

This post on the VKontakte page of the Association for the Protection of the Rights of Orphans, which has 2,089 followers, had garnered six likes and five comments as of 11:20 a.m. Moscow time on June 27.

"Why did you agree to such housing? <…> You should absolutely refuse such housing, and provide the information to the prosecutor's office," wrote Nadezhda Bengard.

"I'm just afraid I'll give up this housing, and where will we go with a small child? And renting is very expensive now," replied Saule Saparova.

"Because it's government housing. My family agreed—I live there with three small children—and I got gas, water, and electricity connected to the entire building. There were huge debts, so I went to court and hired a lawyer with my husband," wrote a user with the nickname أحبك أحبك.

"Caucasian Knot" also wrote that in Volgograd and the Volgograd Region, orphans who are supposed to be provided with housing by the authorities have repeatedly complained about violations of their housing rights. Thus, on June 20, Elena Mikhailova, who was raised in boarding schools in Dagestan and Volgograd, complained that she had been trying to get the housing she was legally entitled to from officials for nine years.

On June 9, Maxim Chadlev, a resident of the Volgograd region and an orphan, complained that for a long time, officials had not provided him with the housing he was entitled to by law.

In July 2024, it became known that officials in Volgograd had given orphan Mikhail Ponomarev the apartment he was legally entitled to, but it turned out to be unfit for habitation.