Mariupol Property Seizure Programme
Evidence from Russian Occupation Administrative Records, October 2024 – June 2025
Key findings
8,526 residential properties registered as ownerless across four Mariupol districts (January 2025 snapshot)
90.7% of residential registry classified as exhibiting full signs of бесхозяйность (ownerlessness)
2,220 owners successfully reclaimed properties by submitting title documents (November 2024) - a 20.6% reclamation rate
~460 unique commercial properties in the parallel non-residential seizure registry, tracked across 20 monthly snapshots (Oct 2024 – Jun 2025)
Median commercial property: 70 sqm - predominantly small retail; shops, hairdressers, pharmacies, cafés
Methodological notes
Address format changes between commercial snapshots (abbreviated vs. full street names) inflate apparent new-entry counts; unique property figures use most-recent-snapshot deduplication. Port City shopping centre (90,000 sqm) is excluded from all area calculations - it is 1,286× the median property size. The residential and commercial registries are separate administrative instruments and are not aggregated.
Summary statistics
Residential registry
8,526
Jan 2025 snapshot
Classified ownerless
7,737
90.7% of registry
Owners reclaimed
2,220
20.6% reclamation rate
Commercial registry
~460
Unique properties per snapshot
Residential programme - status and district breakdown
Status breakdown - Jan 2025
Ownerless (7,737 / 90.7%)
Contested (574 / 6.7%)
Heirs (145 / 1.7%)
Municipal (70 / 0.8%)
Properties by district
Properties in registry
Reclamation - seized vs. reclaimed
Seized / ownerless (8,526)
Reclaimed by owners (2,220)
Commercial programme - registry size over time
Unique properties per snapshot
Top previous uses - commercial seizures
Unique properties
Notable large seizures (sqm, Port City excluded)
Floor area (sqm)
Notable commercial seizures
| Property / address | Area (sqm) | Previous use |
|---|
| Port City, Volodarskoye shosse 2 | 90,000 | Shopping centre - EXCLUDED from area stats |
| Gostinitsa Azovstal, pr. Pobedy 16 | 8,386 | Hotel |
| Bank PUMB, pr. Ilyicha 136 | 7,265 | Bank headquarters |
| DK Iskra, pr. Ilyicha 143 | 5,643 | Cultural centre |
| Mariupolskoye ATP, ul. Zelinskogo 89 | 5,100 | Bus transport enterprise |
| Kinoteatr Burevesnik, pr. Lunina 65 | 2,708 | Cinema |
| Detskiy blagotvoritelny tsentr, ul. Trudovaya 21 | 1,300 / 1,260 | Children's charity (two entries) |
| Protestantskaya tserkov, pr. Metallurgov 137A | 839 | Protestant church |
| ATB supermarket locations | Various | Ukrainian supermarket chain (58 entries across dataset) |