Yakutsk: Arsenal Plus takes over management of 95 emergency apartment buildings

Dozens of emergency apartment buildings in Yakutsk have no management company willing to take them on. In January, the State Housing Supervision Agency of Yakutia added 95 of these buildings to the list of homes managed by the Arsenal Plus group of companies. The decision was based on an order from the housing and energy department of the Yakutsk city district administration.

Arsenal Plus already manages 86 buildings of its own. Over the winter, its teams carried out 105 emergency repairs across the 95 newly assigned buildings, including fixing leaks in heating, water and sewage systems, thawing frozen pipes and replacing damaged ones. Most of the buildings are old wooden two-storey houses spread across Yakutsk, from Ptitsefabrika to Markha. They were left without management companies after some lost their licences and others withdrew from the housing stock.

The group did not charge residents for the work, which it said was carried out free of charge as part of its social responsibility. Deputy director Natalya Mikhailova told the YSIA news agency that the company's resources and staff were enough to serve both its own buildings and the unmanaged ones.