Angry residents of a Coney Island co-op say they’re living in an American-style gulag, thanks to their iron-fisted, Soviet-born board president.
The animosity between the Trump Village residents and their co-op president, Igor Oberman, 45 — who works as a prosecutor for the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission and is poised to run for City Council — has already led to a series of legal skirmishes.
“[Oberman] thinks it’s 1938 in the Soviet Union,’’ said Yakov Mirochnik, a disabled tenant who has publicly clashed with the co-op honcho.
As head of the board, Oberman oversees 1,144 families in Trump Village’s Section 4, part of a complex of buildings erected in the early 1960s by megadeveloper Donald Trump’s father, Fred Trump.
The buildings, which are no longer tied to the Trump family, went private in June 2007.
Critics say Oberman, a liaison to the Russian community for Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, is notorious for launching eviction proceedings against his opponents.
One case involved Eugene Ovsishcher, a former soldier who returned home from a combat tour in Afghanistan with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Ovsishcher’s wife, a CPA, had previously been asking questions about board finances.
Ovsishcher, 43, was later denied a “service pet” dog to deal with his PTSD and then hit with an eviction order.
He eventually won the legal right to keep his pooch and apartment.
But his psychiatrist, Dr. Zinoviy Benzar, who provided medical testimony on Ovsishcher’s behalf and lives in the complex, was then hit with an eviction order — as were Benzar’s wife and mother-in-law, who own three Trump co-ops between them.
The eviction orders, alleging a failure to pay surcharges for air conditioners, are pending.
But the trio has struck back with a $4.5 million countersuit, charging they were politically targeted for revenge.
Another resident, Yuliya Bezvoleva, 33, an active Army reservist, is fighting an eviction order after she launched an anti-Oberman petition drive.
A spokesman for Oberman, Jonathan Yedin, told The Post:
“We will not comment on pending litigation. All charges that the cooperation has levied against shareholders who violated the rules of the corporation will go through the legal system.”