Forensic case exhibit · Occupied Mariupol
How a destroyed Mariupol home was rebuilt under a new address and sold to the occupier's population.
A 36-apartment, privately owned building was destroyed in 2022, demolished by occupation decree, and replaced on the same footprint by a 51-apartment building registered at a new address — now 94% sold, while the original owners are off the map.
01 · The footprint
The destroyed building and its replacement occupy the same ground — their registered coordinates sit roughly 10 metres apart. Only the address, the cadastral record, and the owners changed.
47.0760°N, 37.5125°E · Δ ≈ 10 m
Satellite progression · same footprint
02 · The five-leg lifecycle
Each stage is drawn from a captured Russian-government or occupation record. Read together, they document a single property passing out of its owners' hands and re-emerging under a new identity.
The original building — a multi-unit residential block — stood four storeys high with 36 apartments, held in private ownership by its residents.
The building was gutted during the 2022 siege of Mariupol and recorded as totally destroyed, then queued for clearance under Priority Phase II. Sixteen months later, the gutted shell was still standing — and already being marketed for sale, ruin and all, ahead of the demolition order that would clear the site.
What remained was demolished by occupation order DNR State-Committee Directive No. 56, clearing the site and the paper trail tying it to its owners.
On a 180,000-view Russian Telegram channel, a Mariupol resident describes this exact property: “I had an apartment at Nakhimova 82. The building was [an OSMD condo association]. It was demolished, a mortgage-development was built and sold off. Not a single former owner is there now.” Posted 27 December 2023 — two days before the replacement building’s own commissioning date — it describes the demolish→mortgage-sale pattern from the residents’ side, matching what the administrative record proves from the other.
Source Resident comment relayed on a public Russian Telegram channel, 27 Dec 2023 (180K views).A new 5-storey, 51-apartment building, “Dom na Nakhimova”, was commissioned — but registered at the new address per. Chernomorsky 1B under a new cadastral number 93:37:0010410:173. The land had been leased to the developer without auction (Directive No. 289, 07 Sep 2023).
Apartments sold rapidly — 94.3% by 2026 — largely to Russian buyers using the federal 2% subsidized mortgage open to any Russian citizen.
The replacement building won a bronze diploma at an architecture competition. Announcing it, the head of Mariupol’s city-planning and architecture department, Natalya Klochkova, praised the architects “working to transform Mariupol into a modern, comfortable Russian city” — a named occupation official, on the record, celebrating the redevelopment of a building whose former owners were dispossessed, and naming the address “Nakhimova, 82” for the new structure.
Source Mariupol occupation TV channel, 3 Oct 2025 (public post).03 · The break in the record
Project name
“Dom na Nakhimova”
Admits the building stands on the Nakhimova site.
Registered address
per. Chernomorsky 1B
The address break that erases the link to destroyed pr. Nakhimova 82.
One number stitches the old footprint to the new title. The
cadastral 93:37:0010410:173 appears in both the
land-grant order — the area is bounded by Nakhimova Avenue and Chernomorskaya Street
— and the new building's registration.
04 · The arithmetic of replacement
The original owners receive nothing — on paper, their address no longer exists.
05 · Beneficiary of record
06 · Legal mapping
A3.6 — loss of access to property in occupied territory.A3.1 — destruction of residential property.A3.3 — loss of housing / residence.8(2)(b)(viii) — transfer of the occupier's own population.8(2)(a)(iv) — appropriation of property.