Participle chains and style

A Russian participle phrase is a whole relative clause packed into one adjective-like word: люди, проживающие в доме is "people living in the building", and English can do the same. The trouble starts when one participle phrase hangs off another. English writers notice the problem with a pile-up of "which" and "that"; in Russian official prose the pile-up is made of participles, and it is just as hard to read.

The first version strings three participles together (подтверждающие → проживающих → подлежащих), each depending on the noun before it. The reader has to hold three open clauses at once. The fix uses three different tools: a который clause, a plain noun instead of a participle (жильцов for лиц, проживающих), and a single participle used as an ordinary adjective, without dependent words of its own (сносимых домов).

Working rules editors use:

• Two participle phrases in a row is about the limit a reader will follow comfortably.
• Alternate devices: participle, then который, then a noun. Three который clauses in a row are as monotonous as three participles.
• Do not nest a phrase inside another phrase of the same kind.
• A chain of passive participles (утверждённый ... представленный ... рассмотренный) is a sign of канцелярит, bureaucratese.
• Short, dense modifiers suit a participle (растущий спрос, growing demand); long modifiers with their own objects and adverbs read better as a который clause.

Where English speakers go wrong. At C1 the risk is the opposite of the beginner's: having finally mastered participles, learners overuse them to sound educated. Russian editors, from Корней Чуковский to the style guides of today's newsrooms, treat participle stacks as a defect, not as a mark of learning. When a sentence sounds like a tax form, break it up.