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After all, the Mayak apartment complex is a quiet gated community with its own courtyard and a nearby yacht club and sand beach along the
enter the lobby and you smell the sewage
centerpiece high-rise tower where he lives.In mid-May, the community of this affluent residence in Khimki, a suburb just 20 kilometers from
Residents posted videos showing the ground floor flooded with wastewater and reported a "persistent smell of feces" seeping into apartments
Sewage overflow has been linked to infectious diseases including tuberculosis, poliomyelitis and hepatitis A.On May 18, sewage effluents
We constantly clean the system because it clogs up
We see how rusty it is, but there's nothing we can do," he continued.This is hardly the first sewage failure here
repercussions of publicly criticizing his housing administrator.Other Moscow suburbs have seen similar incidents
In the town of Shchyolkovo, a state of emergency was declared last year due to a heavy sewage discharge into the local Klyazma River.'Whole
The building is even infested with silverfish bugs
The management company doesn't treat them," Marina said, sharing a video where the insect, a common household pest, was uncovered under the
In the community group chat, they often talk about rusty water, too
prices have recently risen significantly."At the development stage, we bought [a three-room apartment] of 86 square meters for 13 million
And now it costs 26 million."In 2023, the average annual salary stood at 1.7 million rubles in Moscow and 1 million rubles in the Moscow
region.While some have already poured millions into their dream apartment, only to find themselvesenveloped in foul smells, for others,
name.The water utility notified residents in April that the local sewage pumping station was in critical condition and its reconstruction
failures a common occurrence for many Russians.This winter, mass utility outages left millions without heating, water or electricity across
southwestern city of Taganrog due to a sewage rupture with a gas release.Officials acknowledge that the wear and tear on sewage treatment
to replace them.While the number of sewage-related accidents in Russia has fallen in recent years, the total length of pipes needing
major sewage facilities in the Moscow region are overloaded
Since some housing like countryside dachas lacks centralized sewage, authorities report unauthorized discharges into the sewage system that
further stress the aging pipes.Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in May announced a 4.5-trillion-ruble ($50 billion) program to modernize the
investment, potential corruption and a lack of stakeholders with an economic interest in proper maintenance, a Russian environmental expert
The expert said that some Russians, especially those who lived through the Soviet era, may sometimes lack the agency to address issues
happening beyond their doorstep.The Mayak residential complex as seen from the opposite bank of the Moscow Canal.Moscow Times
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