The discovery shocked the residents of Yekaterinburg: a deathly odor from the neighboring apartment alarmed everyone.

      The discovery stunned everyone: residents of Yekaterinburg were alarmed by the corpse smell coming from a neighboring apartment

      today at 12:01 "The morning doesn't start with coffee..." That's how a Yekaterinburg resident and homeowners' association chair, who almost became part of a "criminal" story, began his account.

      

      Photo: screenshot from a video

      

      — On Friday evening, a resident reported a persistent corpse smell on one of the floors. I arrived. Seriously, the stench. Opened all the doors to the outside to air out. Started sniffing the apartment doors — one really smells of decay. No one answers the knocks, no signs of life. Called 112, left a report, — writes the Yekaterinburg resident in his blog.

      

      On Saturday morning, a local officer arrived at the building.

      

      — Yes, definitely a corpse smell, 100%. We decided to break open the door. At some point, a neighbor remembered that four years ago, a guy had fallen out of this same apartment. The situation took on new colors.

      

      Emergency services arrived and broke down the door.

      The law enforcement officers, rescuers, and local residents were very surprised when they saw that the apartment was not at all what they had imagined.

      It turns out, the residents of this apartment had filled the fridge with meat and left for a long time, turning off all the circuit breakers inside, including that very fridge.

      

      — Honestly, it would have been easier with a body — at least they would have taken it away. But removing this mess is only rights of the owner or by court order. The police officers promised to open a window — that’s all.

      

      Fortunately, by evening, tenants showed up. Seeing the sealed apartment, they suspected something was wrong.

      

      — All evening and half the night, the tenants took out a bunch of things from the apartment. First to go to the dump was the contents of the refrigerator and even the refrigerator itself. As I joked later: “We have a fridge at the dump. It works, but there’s a catch.”