According to local residents, this building was constructed in 1968, and the apartments were provided to employees of the Ministry of Finance and teachers preparing future specialists in the field of economics. Among the first residents were war veterans, large families, and workers from the rear. Later, the building was transferred to the Academy of Management under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic for educational purposes. In 1998, the Academy began the process of privatization.
According to the residents, the Bishkek city hall issued an order to change the status of the premises to residential apartments. As a result, technical passports were issued for 15 apartments, and they became private property. "We acted in accordance with the law, we have all the necessary documents," the residents claim.
Owners emphasize that for almost three decades, no one questioned the legitimacy of their privatization, and all transactions went smoothly. However, in September 2025, they faced lawsuits from the Lenin District Prosecutor's Office, which demands that the privatization be declared illegal, which came as a surprise to them.
The Prosecutor's Office claims that the building belongs to educational institutions and cannot be privatized as residential space.
The residents argue: "This building was designed as a residential one, not as a dormitory or educational institution. All apartments have identical layouts, and anyone can see that they are indeed apartments. We have all the orders and technical passports. No one checked us for 26 years, and now they say our apartments do not belong to us."
Currently, the situation is complicated by numerous legal disputes. A lawsuit regarding seven apartments is being considered in the Administrative Court, while the other eight are in process in the Lenin District Court.
The owners express confusion over the division of cases: "We are not lawyers and do not understand why they were separated. Before the New Year, additional lawsuits were filed in the Lenin Court for three apartments that were already under consideration in the Administrative Court. We also received notifications that all subsequent sales will be declared invalid. A second lawsuit has placed a freeze on all apartments," they add.
Owners remind that privatization took place in 1998, but after 26 years, the Prosecutor's Office challenged the actions of the state bodies that allowed this privatization. A lawsuit was filed to restore the statute of limitations, which the court granted, and the case regarding the illegality of the privatization was accepted for consideration.
The residents claim that all court processes began almost simultaneously, and full hearings were not conducted. "We still do not understand what the specific claims are. The prosecutor either does not attend the hearings or interrupts them for other cases. We have been living in constant stress for six months," they share.
Long-time residents, who have lived in this building since its construction, feel deceived by the state.
One of them says: "We have worked our whole lives for the good of the country, stood in line for housing and land plots. When we were offered to privatize the apartments we lived in, we gave up other queues. Now they want to cancel this privatization, and we are left with nothing."
The residents of the building have appealed to President Sadyr Japarov and head of the GKNB Kamchybek Tashiev for protection of their rights and attention to this situation.
They emphasize: "We are not officials or wealthy businessmen who privatized factories or large land plots. We are teachers who have prepared many specialists for the country. Now, in our later years, we risk being left without a single home. We ask you, as the guarantor of the Constitution, to protect us. We are law-abiding citizens, conscientious owners."
