Volunteer Appeals to Yakutsk Mayor Over Unpaid Wages for Three Months

Volunteer Anton Vasilyev has appealed to Yakutsk Mayor Yevgeny Grigoryev, requesting his intervention to resolve unpaid wages from the Oktyabrsky District Administration.

Mar 1, 2026

Anton Vasilyev, a volunteer cleaner, has gone three months without pay for his work in Yakutsk.
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Volunteer Anton Vasilyev has appealed via his social media to Yakutsk Mayor Yevgeny Grigoryev, asking him to influence the Oktyabrsky District Administration, which has been delaying his salary as a street cleaner for three months. Anton«s video has gone viral on social media, and the mayor»s office has provided an official comment to 14.RU.

In a social media video, the volunteer directly addresses Mayor Yevgeny Grigoryev about the payment issue.

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According to Anton, since last September, he has been working part-time for the Oktyabrsky District Administration, cleaning the city every day starting at 6:00 a.m., collecting hundreds of kilograms of garbage, but he has stopped being paid.

“I ask you, influence the Oktyabrsky District so that they pay the salary from November to today. I hope for your understanding and resolution of the problem,” says Anton in his video, addressing Yevgeny Grigoryev.

The mayor«s office press service explained: Anton Vasilyev does not fully understand that what is being delayed is not his salary, but payment under a contract.

“The Oktyabrsky District Administration has a contract for trash bin cleaning with individual entrepreneur Bocharov, not with Anton Vasilyev. The administration is not responsible for the contractual relations between the contractors themselves,” explained the mayor«s office press service.

However, the mayor«s office did not deny that the city budget, as well as the republican budget, faced difficulties at the end of the year, so the delays could be related to this.

Previously, Anton Vasilyev already told 14.RU that he receives his salary with delays. The contractor blamed the mayor«s office: it has not paid for services under the contract since November, so he has to pay Anton out of his own pocket. Anton»s salary is 50,000 rubles per month (approximately $550 at current rates) for cleaning three city districts: Oktyabrsky, Gubinsky, and Central.

Anton is not officially employed anywhere and does not want to be: it interferes with his volunteer activities and helping people, and he has been living this way for 23 years. We told his story here.