Over the past few months, Russian construction companies have been actively recruiting workers to rebuild Mariupol, which has suffered massive damage during the hostilities, Asia Plus reports. The workers are promised high salaries, even by metropolitan standards, up to 250 thousand rubles per month, free temporary housing and three meals a day.

Kurbon Sharifov, a 30-year-old citizen of Tajikistan, has been working in Mariupol since the end of August. He was sent there by the Moscow construction company Restavratsiya, at whose facilities he had previously worked. For the first month of work, according to him, the builders were paid 130 thousand rubles or more, which is twice their previous earnings in Moscow.

“Here we restore destroyed residential buildings, replace windows, renew the roof. We were provided with temporary housing and three meals a day,” says Kurbon.

Another migrant worker from Tajikistan, Bakhtovar Norov, turned down a tempting job offer in Mariupol out of fear of renewed hostilities.

“We were told that no one would touch you there. But the situation is unstable. Whether the migrants will return from there safe and sound, only God knows. It is better to work in Russia itself,” he said.

The exact number of people from Central Asia who went to work in Mariupol is unknown. According to Kurbon Sharifov, the Restavratsiya construction company alone sent 110 people to the city, most of them citizens of Tajikistan.

According to him, a lot of construction companies are engaged in the recruitment of labor migrants for the restoration of Mariupol.

The Embassy of Tajikistan in Russia noted that they did not receive official notification from the Russian authorities about sending Tajiks to restore Mariupol. “Some of our compatriots called us about this, we advised them to refrain from traveling to dangerous regions,” the official of the diplomatic mission said.

Many small construction companies in Russia are owned by Tajiks, who recruit compatriots to their staff. As the owner of one of these firms told Asia Plus on condition of anonymity, he received an application to send 30,000 builders to Mariupol.

“Earlier, a group of workers was sent by bus, they have already started work. Our workers are mostly migrants from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan,” he added.

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