Izvestia: construction of housing stopped in 43 Russian cities during the year In 43 Russian cities with a total population of 2.2 million people the construction of apartment buildings decreased to zero compared to the fall of 2020. Fyodor Vylomov, General Director of the Rating Agency for the Construction Complex (RASK), told Izvestia about this. The expert noted that a similar situation is observed, including in fairly large cities with a population of more than 100 thousand people, such as Murmansk, Orsk, Bratsk, Syzran, Solikamsk and Tchaikovsky, in which housing construction has stopped since October 2019. As the reasons for this problem, Vylomov named the discrepancy between the capabilities of buyers and the desires of developers, climatic and territorial features, problems with project financing for launching new projects, the cyclical nature of the industry, as well as the lack of free land. According to Alexander Ruchiev, President of the Osnova
