Russian holidays - BTI Workers' Day (Inventory Day)

Surely only a few people know that there is such a holiday as Inventory Day. BTI Worker's Day, or Inventory Inventory Day, is celebrated on May 21. There are three significant dates for this holiday. The first, from which it all began, is May 21, 1927, when the Economic Conference under the Labor and Defense Council of the RSFSR adopted the Resolution “On approval of the Regulations on the inventory of property of Local Councils.” The second was on January 10, 1930, when the Soviets organized special accounting and economic bureaus. And finally, 1999, when the holiday was officially approved. Most people have a very rough idea of ​​the activities of inventory takers, as well as how the abbreviation BTI stands for. So what kind of beast is this BTI, and what exactly do the employees of this mysterious organization do? Initially BTI, i.e. The Bureau of Technical Inventory was created in order to nationalize private property, which, as is known, was abolished in 1917. The responsibilities of the service included: creating information databases about residential and non-residential real estate objects that became state property, about their price and technical condition, so that in the future it would be possible to calculate the costs of its repair and maintenance, as well as the construction of new objects. During the era of perestroika, this well-coordinated system practically collapsed. The chaos in the country, the liquidation, closure and reformatting of state property, led to the fact that there was no longer such strict accounting of real estate as before, as a result of which financial injections into the state budget sharply decreased. Currently, BTI, as an accounting service, deals with all real estate transactions, be it the sale or purchase of an apartment, registration of redevelopment, measurements of the area and volume of premises, transfer of real estate as collateral, receiving or leaving an inheritance... Employees working in this area must have extensive knowledge in the fields of legislation and construction. This work is very responsible, and mistakes in it can primarily affect our financial, legal - and even physical - security. After all, a lot depends on this service: it has to decide, for example, such problems as whether to give away old housing for demolition, or it can be repaired, and it will still be able to serve for some time. As in any professional organization, they begin to prepare for the holiday in advance. On the eve of Inventory Day, seminars are held on topical topics; employees regularly take advanced training courses, exchange experiences and discuss innovations in legislation. Recently, the media have increasingly begun to cover professional holidays. They do not ignore this event, which is important for BTI workers, albeit an inconspicuous one.