In May of this year, the Nurlan Smagulov Foundation promised the Ural residents who were affected by the spring floods to purchase and hand over 264 apartments by the beginning of September. But thanks to well-coordinated efforts, all of the promised apartments have already been delivered. The final handover took place on August 1. The apartments handed over to the Ural residents were ready to move in.

The first apartments were delivered in June. According to the director of the Foundation, Aydin Sultanov, the company decided not to wait until the finishing work in all 264 apartments was completed, and as soon as the apartments got ready, the keys were handed over to families who needed them more — the first on the waiting list were the people who had to live in evacuation centers all this time.

“We have lived in the Victoria-2 summer cottage community for more than ten years. This year, it got flooded. We have been living in a rented apartment all this time, and a month and a half ago we were told that we would be moving in here. We have been looking forward to this day. Now they are handing over the apartments to us, and we are very grateful to everyone who took part in this — the Smagulov Foundation, the regional akim and the head of state... All our large family will live in this apartment: me, my wife, our eldest son and his family, there are six of us for now,” said Yerkin Kamusinov.

Later, the apartments were distributed among the large families who had to live in rented housing after the floods. The lists for receiving apartments were provided to the Foundation by the akimat.

“We managed to issue all the apartments ahead of the stated deadline. We ourselves monitored the process of purchasing the apartments and renovating them, took part in it, assessed them. It was planned that all the flood victims would get their apartments by the beginning of September, but on August 1 we already handed out the keys to the remaining 122 apartments. As to us, we made every effort to deliver them,” said Mereke Suraganov, a representative of the Nurlan Smagulov Foundation.

The Foundation allocated 5.6 billion tenge for the purchase of apartments.