OREANDA-NEWS  The number of owners of plots for gardening in Russia has decreased. The fact that summer residents began to disappear in the country, reports Rossiyskaya Gazeta with reference to Rosreestr data.

In 2022, there were 14.2 million summer residents in Russia. Compared to 2021, their number has decreased by 53 thousand, and since 2000 - by 461 thousand. From 2021 to the end of 2022, the owners of such plots became less noticeable in the Kaliningrad region (minus 38.1 thousand) and in the Crimea (minus 13.8 thousand). The maximum increase was recorded in the Moscow region (plus 3.3 thousand) and the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (plus 1.3 thousand).

At the same time, the number of gardeners has grown. In 2022, the area of vegetable gardens in the country increased by 6.6 thousand hectares, and the number of their owners — by 5 thousand. By the beginning of 2023, more than 2.5 million Russians owned vegetable gardens with a total area of 280 thousand hectares. Most of the gardeners were added on Sakhalin (plus 1.2 thousand), in the Vologda and Vladimir regions (plus 500).

Earlier, the Russians were given a way to register at the dacha. According to Nikita Chaplin, chairman of the Union of Summer Residents of the Moscow region, this can be done if the house is recognized as residential.