MOSCOW, May 27 (RAPSI) – The Supreme Court of Russia has registered an appeal filed by former owners of the Yalta Film Studio against he lower courts’ rulings that found nationalization of the Studio legal, RAPSI learned in the court on Friday.

The appeal was registered on May 26; it is yet to be reviewed.

On September 2, 2014 Crimean government ruled to nationalize the Yalta Film Studio which was sold to Russian private companies over 10 years ago. The ruling was made in accordance with a special republican law “On peculiarities of foreclosure of strategic objects” signed on August 8, 2014.

Former owners have appealed this ruling in the Crimean Commercial Court. In June 2015, the appeal was dismissed. The court noted that foreclosure of the property was conducted in accordance with law. According to the court, property may be foreclosed if it “has to be used as an object with special social, cultural or historical value”. The court noted that Yalta Film Studio falls under that category. 

Yalta Film Studio is one of the oldest film studios at the post-soviet territories. Numerous classic soviet films were created there, including: “Solaris”, “Amphibian Man”, “Kidnapping, Caucasian Style”, “Pirates of the 20th century”, “Treasure Island”, “Moscow-Cassiopeia” and others.