Medvezhya Dolina (spelled by the developer as "MedVezhya Dolina") is a residential microdistrict on Rodionov Street in the Nizhegorodsky District of Nizhny Novgorod: twelve multi-story buildings at the shared address 165 Rodionov Street, built by Zhilstroy-NN in 2004–2008 on commission from the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Volga Federal District. [1][2][3][4]

Name

The construction was commissioned by the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Volga Federal District, and about 17% of the apartments in ten of the complex's buildings were allocated to employees of the militia (police). [2]

The developer wrote the name of the complex as "MedVezhya Dolina" — with a capital "V" in the middle of the word, so that the initial letters form the abbreviation MVD (the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs). In summer 2006, the public transport stop near the microdistrict was named the same way. [5][6] The city press generally uses the spelling "Medvezhya dolina." [7][8]

Construction

The company Zhilstroy-NN was founded in 2000 on the basis of the GAZ construction complex; Medvezhya Dolina is one of its microdistricts, along with "Yug" and "Vodny Mir." [9] The original project description promised nine brick and panel buildings — two 9-story and seven 17-story — two kindergartens on the ground floors, a tailor's shop, hairdressers, dry cleaning and shoe repair, a large shopping center with a multi-screen cinema and a nightclub, a pedestrian zone, two playgrounds, spacious parking, and a garage complex set apart from the buildings. [10] The developer later described the complex as twelve buildings with turnkey apartment finishing, a multifunctional shopping center, and a multi-level parking structure. [2]

The first slab was laid in September 2004 by Colonel General Vladimir Filippovich Shcherbakov, head of the Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Volga Federal District. In August 2005, the first three buildings were handed over to the state commission, followed by the first 17-story building at the end of December 2005 and one more 17-story building each in the summer and fall of 2006. [1] In December 2006, buildings No. 3 and 3a (by design numbering) were presented to the state commission, and the handover of two more, including the only 18-story building in the microdistrict, was scheduled for the first quarter of 2007. [5]

In June 2007, the finishing of the facades of buildings No. 5 and 8 was completed and construction of the above-ground and underground parking structure began; buildings No. 6, 7, and 8 went up that same summer. The multi-level parking structure was ready in February 2008, and in 2009 the developer reported that all residential buildings of the complex had been put into operation. [1]

The 17-story buildings No. 3a, 3b, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9 were built with a precast reinforced-concrete frame; the exterior walls are aerated concrete blocks with an external insulation system, and the floor height is 2.8 m. The first floor is faced with decorative stone and given over to public-use premises with separate entrances; each entryway has a passenger elevator and a freight-passenger elevator. Buildings No. 3a, 4, and 9 have 160 apartments each, and No. 3b, 5, and 8 have 96 each. [11] Buildings No. 3 and 7 were built of monolithic concrete. [6]

In November 2007, a space in the underground parking garage on Rodionov Street, whose handover was scheduled for the fourth quarter of that year, cost 600,000 rubles, and a space for two cars cost 1.1 million rubles. [12]

Buildings

Nine buildings in the microdistrict are high-rises — 17 stories, one of them 18 stories — and three are panel buildings of nine to ten stories; in all, the twelve buildings contain about 1,300 apartments. [4][13][14][15]

Buildings of the Medvezhya Dolina Microdistrict
AddressFloorsWallsApartmentsYear built
Rodionov Street, 165 bldg. 117block1602005 [16]
Rodionov Street, 165 bldg. 49panel722005 [13]
Rodionov Street, 165 bldg. 59panel362005 [14]
Rodionov Street, 165 bldg. 610panel502005 [15]
Rodionov Street, 165 bldg. 1017block1602006 [17]
Rodionov Street, 165 bldg. 1117block962006 [18]
Rodionov Street, 165 bldg. 1217block1602006 [19]
Rodionov Street, 16518block1022007 [4]
Rodionov Street, 165 bldg. 217block962007 [20]
Rodionov Street, 165 bldg. 917block1602007 [21]
Rodionov Street, 165 bldg. 317block962008 [22]
Rodionov Street, 165 bldg. 817block932008 [23]

Infrastructure

The ground floors of the buildings are occupied by commercial and public-use premises; in building 165, block 1, the developer opened the Divo children's educational center for children aged three and up. [2] The buildings of the microdistrict are assigned to School No. 35 at 8 Fruktovaya Street. [16]

On the same Rodionov Street stand the Semashko Nizhny Novgorod Regional Clinical Hospital (building 190) [24] and the Fantastika shopping center (building 187). [25] From the upper floors of the buildings there is a view of the Volga. [26]

Transportation

The "Mikrorayon Medvezhya Dolina" stop is located on Rodionov Street. Ten bus routes pass through it — Nos. 2, 4, 16, 40, 45, 52, 58, 90, 204, and 225 — as well as thirteen marshrutka (shared minibus taxi) routes. The neighboring stops are "Svyatoy Kolodets" and "d. Pechyory." [27]

Utility Networks

The networks built together with the buildings remained ownerless for a long time. In September 2012, residents complained about the sewage pumping station: wastewater was spilling out and flowing into the ravine. The court decided to transfer the station to municipal ownership; the paperwork was expected to be completed in October 2012, and the repairs were estimated at more than a million rubles. [7] The breakdown on September 6, 2012, was already the fifth at the station: sewage was getting into the storm drains and onto the sidewalks, and the repair required a pump costing about 10,000 euros. In total, the microdistrict had 43 ownerless utility infrastructure facilities, and the issue remained unresolved for five years. [28]

Street lighting in the courtyards was restored in November 2019. The electrical networks built by Zhilstroy-NN had not been transferred to the city's balance sheet for 14 years; at the end of August 2019, a court declared them ownerless, after which the municipal enterprise Inzhenernye Seti registered the documents for them and repaired the lamps. Of the 53 lamps, a third had to be fixed. [8][3] Before that, the courtyard streetlights had not been lit at all for about six months, and power outages had occurred earlier too; the head of the city, Vladimir Panov, called having the abandoned networks declared ownerless through the courts a mandatory stage of their transfer. [3]

Sources

  1. web.archive.org — Zhilstroy-NN — "MedVezhya Dolina" Residential Complex: Construction Progress, 2009 — MedVezhya Dolina Residential Complex, Rodionov Street: Construction Progress (archive)
  2. web.archive.org — Zhilstroy-NN — "MedVezhya Dolina" Residential Complex: Architecture and Infrastructure, 2009 — MedVezhya Dolina Residential Complex, Rodionov Street: Architecture and Infrastructure (archive)
  3. nn.aif.ru — AiF — Nizhny Novgorod — on street lighting, November 8, 2019 — Stable street lighting has appeared in the "Medvezhya Dolina" microdistrict (archive)
  4. GIPERNN — GiperNN — Rodionov Street, building 165 — Rodionov St., 165 — Nizhny Novgorod (archive)
  5. web.archive.org — Zhilstroy-NN — "MedVezhya Dolina" Residential Complex: Construction Progress, February 2007 — MedVezhya Dolina Residential Complex, Rodionov Street: Construction Progress (archive)
  6. web.archive.org — Zhilstroy-NN — "MedVezhya Dolina" Residential Complex: Description of the Buildings, 2009 — MedVezhya Dolina Residential Complex, Rodionov Street: Description of the Buildings (archive)
  7. NIA "Nizhny Novgorod" — on sewage pumping stations, September 20, 2012 (archive)
  8. Nizhegorodskaya Pravda — on street lighting, November 8, 2019 — Street lighting has returned to the "Medvezhya Dolina" microdistrict on Rodionov Street (archive)
  9. domostroynn.ru — Domostroy NN — on the company Zhilstroy-NN, August 23, 2016 — They Are Building Nizhny: Zhilstroy-NN LLC in August 2016 (archive)
  10. realtyvision.ru — description of the "Medvezhya Dolina" residential complex — Medvezhya Dolina, residential complex (Nizhny Novgorod) (archive)
  11. web.archive.org — Zhilstroy-NN — "MedVezhya Dolina" Residential Complex: Description of Buildings No. 3a, 3b, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, February 2007 — Panel-construction buildings with effective exterior wall insulation (archive)
  12. web.archive.org — Zhilstroy-NN — "MedVezhya Dolina" Residential Complex: Parking, price list as of November 12, 2007 — MedVezhya Dolina Residential Complex, Rodionov Street: Parking (archive)
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  21. GIPERNN — GiperNN — Rodionov Street, building 165 bldg. 9 — Rodionov St., 165 bldg. 9 — Nizhny Novgorod (archive)
  22. GIPERNN — GiperNN — Rodionov Street, building 165 bldg. 3 — Rodionov St., 165 bldg. 3 — Nizhny Novgorod (archive)
  23. GIPERNN — GiperNN — Rodionov Street, building 165 bldg. 8 — Rodionov St., 165 bldg. 8 — Nizhny Novgorod (archive)
  24. semashko.nnov.ru — N. A. Semashko Nizhny Novgorod Regional Clinical Hospital — contacts — N. A. Semashko Nizhny Novgorod Regional Clinical Hospital
  25. fantastika-nn.ru — "Fantastika" shopping center — official website
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  27. wikibus.ru — "Mikroraion Medvezhya Dolina" stop — Mikroraion Medvezhya Dolina in Nizhny Novgorod — public transportation (archive)
  28. KP — Nizhny Novgorod — Komsomolskaya Pravda — on ownerless utility facilities, September 27, 2012 — Ownerless Utility Facilities — Who Is Responsible for Them? (archive)