In the Stavropol Territory, it was only by court that the right of the “child of the Gulag” to housing at the place of residence of his mother was recognized

The Petrovsky District Court of the Stavropol Territory found it illegal to refuse a request to put 71-year-old “Gulag child” Nikolai Mitkin on the waiting list for housing at the place of residence of the repressed mother. The plaintiff is the administration of the Petrovsky urban district of the Stavropol Territory.

As Kommersant recalls, in 2019 the Constitutional Court of Russia recognized the right of the descendants of the repressed to receive housing in the regions where their parents lived before the eviction. At the same time, in a number of regions, the housing problems of the descendants of the repressed are resolved out of court.

In 1941, the mother of Nikolai Mitkin, Frida Keller, was sent to a special settlement near Perm from the Nikolaevka farm in the Stavropol Territory. It was in the Perm Territory that her son was born, while the deserted farm ceased to exist. As Grigory Vaypan, a lawyer at International Memorial (this society was included in the register of NPOs – foreign agents and liquidated by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation at the end of 2021), explains, the plaintiff was denied satisfaction of his legal claims due to the lack of registration in the Stavropol Territory.