https://www.proekt.media/investigation/dacha-putina-gorki10/ Cycle " Country of friends " Country partnership . Investigation of how the Russian leadership acquired unofficial residences Maria Zholobova , with the participation of Daniel Sotnikova , May 22, 2019 Where does the How to hide the How to protect Map of all political elite live owners of the the residence residences of on Rublevka residence Putin The “Project” found a mysterious cottage worth more than two billion rubles on the Rublevo-Uspenskoye Highway. Everything indicates the presence of top oficials: federal security and special communications with another state residence, on the territory of which the ice arena is located. And belongs cottage offshore from the British Virgin Islands, associated with old friends of Vladimir Putin. Village of the 90s “This section of Rublevka is not quoted on the market, ” Kommersant wrote 18 years ago about Gorki-10, a village on the outskirts of Rublevo-Uspenskoye Highway. And now there are almost no offers for the sale of plots, and there is no place to take them from. Gorki- 10 is a village of old Soviet state dachas, which since the 90s have been chosen by the Russian political establishment. For example, Vladimir Kozhin , the former manager of the president’s business, lives there - he has almost eight hectares on the bank of the Moskva River, which until then had been federal property. They cost him less than the market - Novaya Gazeta, citing data from the Rosreestr, wrote that Kozhin paid just over 1 million rubles for the site . Kozhin made this deal when the head of administration of the Odintsovo region, to which Gorki-10 belongs, was the current deputy head of the FSO, General Nikolai Kondratyuk. Earlier, Novaya Gazeta found plots in another district of the fsoshnik family, Gorki-2. But, as the “Project” found out , Nikolay and Alla K ondratyuki had owned 3.6 thousand In 199 9, the son of Oleg Soskovets to square meters since 2002 . m of land and here, in death killed three Gorki-10 . workers from Tajikistan at the 24th kilometer of the Boris Yeltsin’s former dacha is also located in Gorki-10, Rublyovo-Uspenskoye Highway. As not a state, but a private one; now his widow Naina Kommersant wrote , Yeltsin lives there . In the 2000s, they wrote: Boris two workers “were Yeltsin lost important documents on an area of 4 thrown about ten hectares, which the administration of the Odintsovo meters from the road, district assigned to him. Exactly so much occupies the third hung on the land in Gorki-10. protective grille, and a Mercedes was dragging it another And yet the largest landlord in the district, with plots 50 meters”. The driver of almost 25 hectares, is not an oficial, but a hid and tried to hide businessman, billionaire Alisher Usmanov . It was the traces of the crime about this huge estate that Aleksey Navalny told in an - when the car was investigation about the alleged assets of Prime found, all ingerprints Minister Dmitry Medvedev. and blood were erased. Soskovets Jr. was detained at his Finally, another resident of Gorky-10 is former Deputy house in Gorki-10, but Prime Minister Oleg Soskovets , who was dismissed soon released, it is not by Yeltsin after the incident with the “xerox box”. The known what the head of the security service of Yeltsin, Alexander investigation of the Korzhakov, who was sent out at the same time, was criminal case ended. also a resident of Gorky-10, but later sold this section. Then, in 1996, together with Soskovets and Korzhakov, the president dismissed the head of the FSB, Mikhail Barsukov. He owns sites in another village of Rublevka, Gorki-2, and in Gorki-10, the “ward” Barsukov, a former drilling engineer from Nefteyugansk, Ivan Koptenko, who later became a deputy of the Supreme Council, tried to settle down. "With the iling of Barsukov, Koptenko leased the Gorka 10-10 gosdacha and fenced it with a tall fence," Korzhakov wrote in his memoirs. Then the dacha was at the disposal of the son of the State Duma’s Deputy Speaker Artur Chi lingarov (a typical dach a of a politburo member: a hall, a bedroom, a good bath — Chilingarov Sr. described it). The interiors of this In the 2000s, the residence “Gorki 10-10” was returned residence 10-10 were published on the to the state. But its current destination is unknown. It Internet by a is not mentioned as the place in which oficial events company from are held with the participation of the president or the Tatarstan prime minister. However, according to Rosreestr, "Tatinvestgrazhdanpr since 2008 the territory has been in use by the FSO. oekt", which made the design project. The site says that the interior is designed for "family living and recreation, as well as oficial receptions and meetings," made "in a classic style, used in the decoration of natural stone and precious wood handmade materials." The general director of the company, Irek Faizullin, was appointed Minister of Construction and Slides 10-10. Source: Yandex maps. Architecture of Tatarstan after the reconstruction was completed. "Gorki-10" also indicated on its website the company "MD Technology", which installs home theaters. The details of the CEO of the company Pavel Dolgopolsky “Project” could not be found - he referred to the “non-disclosure subscription”. The “Project” took pictures of the residence - there are three mansions, a helipad and an ice arena on the territory. Korzhakov mentioned this arena in his memoirs: according to his information, it is intended for the Night Hockey League created by Putin. The arena is also at the disposal of the FSO . However, this property is not the only object in the village of Gorki-10, which protects the FSO. In the same place there is one more magniicent house which FSO, probably, protects where more carefully. In 2015, the Specia l Communication Servi ce of the FSO announced an auction : it was necessary to build a system of dedicated special communication from the residence with the ice arena "Gorki 10-10" to some summer cottage number 5 located in the same village . The arrangement of the dedicated communication line was for some reason supposed to be on the site belonging to an offshore from the British Virgin Islands. The source of funding was the federal budget, funds were allocated within the framework of the State Defense Order. Special persons Cottage number 5 in Gorki-10 stands on the very edge of the village. On the one hand, there is a stud farm, the road from which to the dacha is guarded not only by a double fence, but also by a huge dung ield, which was dificult for the “Project” correspondents to cross. On the other hand - the Moscow River. The cottage itself is hidden behind a high, by the eye, not less than ive meters, fence. Along the perimeter of the fence - numerous video cameras. True, they did not prevent the locals from painting grafiti in several places. One of them says: “Putin, kiss my ***”. Surroundings cottages It is practically impossible to photograph the territory of the dacha with the help of a radio-controlled drone from the air - apparently, the so-called “jammers” are working - this is how some public and private facilities at Rublevka are now equipped. The irst attempt to launch the drone ended unsuccessfully, but from the second “Project” I photographed a mysterious object. The huge plot - almost six hectares - is securely hidden behind tall pines, only the main house (there are three houses in total) and the helipad, as well as landscape elements are visible: several small artiicial ponds, planted spruces, paths, an artiicial cave similar to an underground garage . The veranda of the house is decorated with mosaics, a small bridge leads from the second floor deep into the forest. The area of a large house - 2.2 thousand square meters. m, smaller houses - 1.2 thousand square meters. m (the third house is not registered in Rosreestre, and its area can not be learned). Until the beginning of the 2000s, this area was owned by the state - it was managed by the Ministry of Property Relations . But in 2001, this vast territory on the banks of the Moskva River was inherited by the Russian professor, director of the Institute of Crystallography of the Russian Academy of Sciences Mikhail Kovalchuk. Kovalchuk himself at the same time spoke about the plight of scientists. “I know for sure, starting from what amount, graduate students will start sitting at work. This amount is miserable compared to what is paid in the West. Starting from 200- 300 dollars, ” he wrote in his article for the journal Otechestvennye Zapiski in 2002. But Mikhail has a brother, Yuri Kovalchuk - a shareholder of the bank "Russia" and one of the founders of the famous cooperative "Lake", around which a circle of St. Petersburg friends of President Putin was formed. In 2005, Mikhail Kovalchuk transferred the site to the Mikhail and Yuri Kovalch uki authorized capital of the Usadba-21 Century company, which he had just established. At the same time, the construction of the mansion began at the site, and by 2010, according to Google Earth, a helipad appeared there. In December 2011, the owner of the plot changed again - the non-commercial partnership “Revival of traditions and culture of country rest” became them. Its owners are certain Ipex and Tarteks. The owner of IPEX is an offshore company from the British Virgin Islands Girard Finance Limited. At irst, Tartax was owned by Cyprus’s Infotarget Consultants Limited Gennady Timchenko (although he was not a member of the Lake cooperative, also an old and reliable friend of Putin): through this company he owned the oil trader Surgutex along Peter Kolbin.