According to The Moscow Times, in St. Petersburg, owners of buildings with protective structures are being issued orders to equip such shelters, and corresponding directives have also been sent to municipalities.
A underground facility near the “Nevskaya Ratusha” was ordered to be put in order by the St. Petersburg Pharmaceutical Factory.
Nikolai Pitirimov, co-chair of the board of directors of the St. Petersburg Cluster of Clean Technologies for the Urban Environment, told BFM that the order for apartment buildings applies not only where adapted premises have historically existed, but also in all other buildings. According to him, owners must provide such places at least as a temporary bomb shelter, and this responsibility falls on homeowners' associations.
In Yekaterinburg, residents of apartment buildings have already received an offer to pay for bomb shelters. As E1 writes, residents of one district received notices about a vote on equipping shelters in an underground parking garage, and the amount will be included in the bill as a separate line item as a targeted payment.
At the management company “Akademichesky”, they explained that the amount of the payment is set by a gubernatorial decree and amounts to 841 rubles per person. In Omsk, which is 2,500 km from the border with Ukraine, money is being requested from the parents of children attending one of the kindergartens, where the basement has been decided to be converted into a shelter.
According to “Gorod 55”, local residents say they are being asked to contribute 200 rubles for benches and a water supply, while the mayor’s office said that parents are only being advised, if possible, to take measures to provide the necessary supplies and adapt basements into shelters.
Head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Alexander Kurenkov said in February that the agency is working on restoring more than 20,000 protective structures in 82 regions of the country. Authorities began large-scale reconstruction and modernization of Soviet-era shelters at the end of May 2025, and according to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, about 155 billion rubles will be required for these purposes.
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