, 07.20.16, Moscow, 10:34 His neighbor, the wife of Sergei Chemezov, put the newly built palace up for sale

After the divorce in 2011, Sechin was left without a home in the countryside: a mansion with an area of 1,415 square meters. m and a plot of 0.5 hectares in the depths of Serebryany Bor, he gave to his ex-wife. Since the fall of 2014, Sechin has been building new house on Rublevka, near the clinical sanatorium "Barvikha" by the Presidential Administration (UDP). Sechin’s plot of 3 hectares is located in the center of a new village, which does not yet have a name. It is hidden from prying eyes by a solid fence and a 100-meter strip pine forest. Nearby are plots of 3.4 hectares of three more Sechins, including two children of the head of Rosneft.

Khodorkovsky's garden

Sechin could turn out to be a neighbor of the former co-owners of YUKOS. In the mid-1990s. They, led by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, created the Apple Orchard cooperative of individual developers. Alexander Gladyshev, who headed the administration of the Odintsovo district, allocated 22 hectares of forest to the cooperative from the territory of the Barvikha sanatorium, where the partners built seven cottages (according to the number of members of the cooperative), and on the neighboring 3 hectares they built a recreation area with artificial ponds and a sports ground.

In 2006, the Basmanny court arrested all the property in the village in the Yukos case. According to Rosreestr, the arrest is still in effect. It is not known who now owns the cottages of former YUKOS shareholders. According to Forbes, the village is still empty and none of its former inhabitants have returned to it.

The Barvikha sanatorium was able to return 3 hectares of recreation area in 2008. Now the sanatorium and the UDP are demanding in the Moscow arbitration from the Apple Orchard to demolish the unauthorized buildings.

Bargain

A piece of forest from the Barvikha sanatorium next to the Apple Orchard was received from Gladyshev by the Soglasie company of Ara Abrahamyan, who was involved in the reconstruction of the Kremlin in the 1990s and carried out other construction projects for the UDP. For example, in 2002, “Soglasie” built one of the most expensive houses in Moscow at the address: Swedish deadlock, 3. Three years ago, the house was inhabited mainly by the closest associates of President Vladimir Putin: Sechin, VTB President Andrei Kostin, businessman Gennady Timchenko and former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, Bloomberg wrote.

For 5 hectares of forest land of the sanatorium on Rublevka, permitted for development, Soglasie paid 2.75 million rubles in 2000. – less than $100,000 at the exchange rate of that time, follows from the materials arbitration court, where in 2004–2005 The prosecutor's office of the Moscow region, the Federal Property Management Agency and the UDP appealed to challenge the deal. Gladyshev gave another 14.36 hectares of Barvikha land to Soglasia for indefinite free use “for the creation of a park area without development rights.” The arbitration case mentions that the transfer was agreed upon with the then presidential chief of staff Pavel Borodin, whose deputy Putin worked at that time. Sechin was then a specialist of the 1st category of the UDP. In April 2004, the governor of the Moscow region, Boris Gromov, by his decree changed special purpose site, allowing its development.

Abrahamyan, unlike the Yukosites, managed to defend all the land in court. While the trial was ongoing, the plots were divided several times and then collected into new ones, their owners changed several times, so the court was unable to figure out how to return them, and the plaintiffs lost in all instances. On the 29.36 hectares of land collected by Abrahamyan for the Barvikha sanatorium, a new village grew, the first residents of which were the wife of Rostec CEO Sergei Chemezov, Ekaterina Ignatova, and his childhood friend, partner in Rostec projects, Vitaly Maschitsky.

Construction failed

In 2009, Maschitsky headed the board of directors of RT - Construction Technologies, which Rostec created for the sale and rental of non-core real estate of its companies. At the same time, the businessman, together with Ignatova, purchased plots on Rublyovka from Abrahamyan’s structures. Ignatova - 1.6 hectares deep in the forest on the border with the “Apple Orchard”, Maschitsky and his two sons bought three plots of 2 hectares next to Ignatova’s plot. Maschitsky and Ignatova did not disclose the amount of the transaction.

In 2012, Ignatova and Maschitsky, together with Abrahamyan’s son Vladislav and the general director of Sberbank Capital Ashot Khachaturyants, established non-commercial partnership promoting the development of infrastructure in the territory of the Barvikha village (NP Barvikha). It was going to build cottages on 20 hectares belonging to it, a representative of the Barvikha contractor, the Investstroy company, said at the time. Two years later, Maschitsky told Vedomosti that he was going to sell his plot due to its not very good location. The plots have not yet been developed and are put up for sale, the businessman’s representative now says. Judging by satellite images, the Mashchitskys’ plots are indeed completely forested, but Khachaturyants managed to build two houses with an area of 2,780 and 292 square meters on his 1.7 hectares. m. Abrahamyan Jr. is also carrying out large-scale construction.

But their houses are lost against the backdrop of Ignatova’s three-story mansion.

Palace for sale

In his income statement for 2014, Chemezov indicated that his wife owned a country house with an area of 4442.5 square meters. m. A house on Rublevka of the same area was put up for sale by several agencies in October last year. At first they asked for $22 million for the mansion, in May 2016 the price was raised to $30 million. The Rostec representative did not deny that we're talking about specifically about Ignatova’s house.

Judging by the presentation, in addition to the three-story mansion, the buyer will receive 1.6 hectares of land and a two-story garage with living rooms for servants with an area of 374 square meters. m. The interiors of the house so far exist only on paper - in a palace style: a grand staircase, carved furniture and multi-tiered chandeliers in the rooms, a swimming pool in the hall with marble columns, etc.

“The house is ready for finishing, so compared to turnkey houses it has such low price“- explains managing partner of the consulting company Blackwood Maria Kotova. According to her, this is now the largest house for sale on Rublyovka.

Finish with a criminal touch
The decoration of Ignatova’s mansion was carried out by the architect and designer Manana Hernandez-Getashvili. In December 2015, a criminal case was opened against her under the article “fraud in large sizes" According to Lifenews, the architect did not complete the design work for the cottage village “Lyubushkin Khutor” on Rublyovka, embezzling about $3 million. Hernandez-Getashvili’s lawyer Alexander Vasiliev told Rosbalt that the initiators of the criminal case could have been his client’s clients, with whom Hernandez-Getashvili had A conflict arose between Getashvili and Ignatov. “We actually collaborated for some time with Manana Getashvili, she was considered a good specialist. The work was not completed, the architect did not fulfill the agreement on the timing and quality of the work, but at the same time considered it possible to receive a full payment,” Ignatova said through a Rostec representative, adding that the repair costs were an order of magnitude less than “the amounts that appeared in the media "

Before the crisis, such a mansion would have cost $45–50 million and would have found its buyer, Sergei Goryainov from Kalinka Realty is sure. But today it will be very difficult to implement it, the most hot commodity on Rublyovka there are houses worth 50–100 million rubles, he continues: “Literally 10 people are now ready to buy expensive houses, and even then they are only willing to pay about $10 million.” They have plenty to choose from: only Kalinka Realty has 50 houses in its database priced above $15 million. Ignatova’s mansion has another feature that complicates the sale - difficult neighbors. In such cases, the buyer often needs to be agreed with them, warns Goryainov. Ignatova did not want to tell why she was only selling a completed house.

Oil industry neighbors

It was precisely the neighbors that Chemezov’s wife no longer liked, the head of a large oil company heard. In 2013, a 1-hectare plot of forest right next to the Podushkinskoe highway was bought by Alexey Khudainatov, the son of the owner of the Independent Oil and Gas Company, Sechin’s predecessor as president of Rosneft, Eduard Khudainatov. In 2014, Sechin himself appeared in the Barvikha NP - from whom he purchased 3 hectares in the center of the village, it was not possible to find out.

“It’s more likely for a lion to lie down with a lamb than for Sechin and Chemezov to be neighbors: their interests overlapped too often,” says a former federal official.

Judging by satellite images, Sechin is actively constructing and his mansion will be at least no smaller than Ignatova’s. In the fall of 2015, plots near Sechin were received by his children - the first deputy director of the department of joint projects on the shelf of Rosneft, Ivan Sechin, and his daughter, Inga Karimova. And also Varvara Sechin, whose status at Rosneft they refused to disclose. Together they have 3.4 hectares of land. They acquired it, according to Rosreestr, through Khudainatov Jr.: he bought several plots of Soglasiya and resold them, during these operations increasing the area of his plot to 2.6 hectares.

If the transactions went through market prices, in 2014, Sechin could pay at least $60 million for his plot, and Khudainatov - $20 million, based on the fact that land in the neighboring village of Mayendorf Gardens was sold in 2014, according to Kalinka Realty estimates, from $200,000 per hundred square meters. In 2016, land prices fell to $150,000 per hundred square meters, and new purchase could have cost Sechin another $51 million.

Rosneft said it does not comment on the personal lives of company employees.

Ara Abrahamyan is on a business trip until the end of September, so he will not be able to answer questions, said an employee of the press service of the Union of Armenians of Russia headed by the businessman. Khachaturyants, through the press service of Sberbank, declined to comment. Eduard Khudainatov did not answer the questions submitted.

Rinat Sagdiev
Alexandra Prokopenko contributed to the preparation of this article. Read more at http://www.

Vedomosti discovered Igor Sechin's house in Barvikha

His neighbor, the wife of Sergei Chemezov, put the newly built palace up for sale

After the divorce in 2011, Sechin was left without a home in the countryside: a mansion with an area of 1,415 square meters. m and a plot of 0.5 hectares in the depths of Serebryany Bor, he gave to his ex-wife. Since the fall of 2014, Sechin has been building a new house on Rublyovka, near the Barvikha clinical sanatorium, by the Presidential Administration (UDP). Sechin’s plot of 3 hectares is located in the center of a new village, which does not yet have a name. It is hidden from prying eyes by a solid fence and a 100-meter strip of pine forest. Nearby are plots with an area of 3.4 hectares of three more Sechins, including two children of the head of Rosneft (see map in the photo gallery).

Khodorkovsky's garden

Bargain

For 5 hectares of forest land of the sanatorium on Rublevka, permitted for development, Soglasie paid 2.75 million rubles in 2000. - less than $100,000 at the exchange rate of that time, follows from the materials of the arbitration court, where in 2004-2005. The prosecutor's office of the Moscow region, the Federal Property Management Agency and the UDP appealed to challenge the deal. Gladyshev gave another 14.36 hectares of Barvikha land to Soglasia for indefinite free use “for the creation of a park area without development rights.” The arbitration case mentions that the transfer was agreed upon with the then presidential chief of staff Pavel Borodin, whose deputy Putin worked at that time. Sechin was then a specialist of the 1st category of the UDP. In April 2004, the governor of the Moscow region, Boris Gromov, by his decree changed the purpose of the site, allowing its development.

Construction failed

In 2012, Ignatova and Maschitsky, together with Abrahamyan’s son Vladislav and the general director of Sberbank Capital Ashot Khachaturyants, established a non-profit partnership to promote the development of infrastructure in the territory of the village of Barvikha (NP Barvikha). It was going to build cottages on 20 hectares belonging to it, a representative of the Barvikha contractor, the Investstroy company, said at the time. Two years later, Maschitsky told Vedomosti that he was going to sell his plot due to its not very good location. The plots have not yet been developed and are put up for sale, the businessman’s representative now says. Judging by satellite images, the Mashchitskys’ plots are indeed completely forested, but Khachaturyants managed to build two houses with an area of 2,780 and 292 square meters on his 1.7 hectares. m. Abrahamyan Jr. is also carrying out large-scale construction.

But their houses are lost against the backdrop of Ignatova’s three-story mansion.

Palace for sale

In his income statement for 2014, Chemezov indicated that his wife owned a country house with an area of 4442.5 square meters. m. A house on Rublevka of the same area was put up for sale by several agencies in October last year. At first they asked for $22 million for the mansion; in May 2016, the price was raised to $30 million. The Rostec representative did not deny or confirm that this is Ignatova’s house.

“The house is ready for finishing, which is why it has such a low price compared to turnkey houses,” explains Maria Kotova, managing partner of the consulting company Blackwood. According to her, this is now the largest house for sale on Rublyovka.

Before the crisis, such a mansion would have cost $45-50 million and would have found its buyer, Sergei Goryainov from Point Estate is sure. But today it will be very difficult to sell it, the most popular product on Rublyovka is houses worth 50-100 million rubles, he continues: “Literally 10 people are now ready to buy expensive houses, and even then they are only willing to pay about $10 million.” They have plenty to choose from: only Kalinka Realty has 50 houses in its database priced above $15 million. Ignatova’s mansion has another feature that complicates the sale - difficult neighbors. In such cases, the buyer often needs to be agreed with them, warns Goryainov. Ignatova did not want to tell why she was only selling a completed house.

Oil industry neighbors

“It’s more likely for a lion to lie down with a lamb than for Sechin and Chemezov to be neighbors: their interests overlapped too often,” says a former federal official.

The new country house of the head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, is being built near the Barvikha sanatorium on Rublyovka, Vedomosti learned. His children also received plots in the neighborhood. In the same area, the cottages of former Yukos owners are awaiting demolition

Head of Rosneft Igor Sechin (Photo: Ekaterina Kuzmina / RBC)

Chief Executive Officer of Rosneft Igor Sechin acquired land plot and is building a new house on Rublevka, near the Barvikha sanatorium by the presidential administration, writes the Vedomosti newspaper. According to the publication, the area of the site is 3 hectares, it is located in the center of a new village, which does not yet have a name.

The newspaper notes that the mansion that previously belonged to him with an area of 1415 square meters. m in Serebryany Bor Sechin left his ex-wife, whom he divorced in 2011. Work on the construction of a new house is proceeding actively, the newspaper notes, citing satellite images. The publication was unable to find out who the head of Rosneft purchased the land from. In the fall of 2015, his children also received land near Sechin’s site: son Ivan Sechin, first deputy director of the department of joint projects on the shelf of Rosneft, and daughter Inga Karimova. Among the owners of the plots, the newspaper also names Varvara Sechina, whose status at Rosneft they refused to disclose. Together they all have 3.4 hectares of land.

Vedomosti estimated the value of Sechin’s site at $60 million if the transactions were carried out at market prices. In 2016, land in this area fell in price from $200 thousand to $150 thousand per hundred square meters and a new purchase, the newspaper calculated, could cost Sechin another $51 million. At the same time, Rosneft refused to comment on the personal lives of company employees.

In 2013, even before Sechin purchased the land, Alexei Khudainatov, the son of the owner of the Independent Oil and Gas Company and Sechin’s predecessor as president of Rosneft, Eduard Khudainatov, purchased 1 hectare of forest in this area. According to Rosreestr, which the publication refers to, he bought several plots of the Soglasie company and resold them, including to Sechin’s children. Khudainatov increased his own plot to 2.6 hectares.

After the Sechins acquired the plots, Ekaterina Ignatova, the wife of Rostec CEO Sergei Chemezov, became their neighbor. Previously, Chemezov indicated in his declaration that his wife had a country house with an area of 4442.5 square meters. m, however, in October 2015, a house of the same area was put up for sale by several agencies. The newspaper writes that the Rostec representative “did not deny that we are talking specifically about Ignatova’s house.” The starting price of the three-story mansion was $22 million; in May 2016 it was raised to $30 million.

The head of a large oil company told Vedomosti that Chemezov’s wife was not happy with the neighbors at the site. Another interlocutor of the newspaper, a former federal official, confirmed this version. “It would be more likely for a lion to lie down with a lamb than for Sechin and Chemezov to be neighbors: their interests overlapped too often,” the newspaper quotes his assessment.

An employee of Kalinka Realty said that before the crisis, a mansion like Ignatova’s would have cost $45-50 million and would have found its buyer, but now “literally about ten people are ready to buy an expensive house, and even then they are only willing to pay about $10 million.” Ignatova’s house is not finished, it needs finishing, the newspaper writes. According to the managing partner of the consulting company Blackwood, Maria Kotova, this mansion is now the largest for sale on Rublyovka.

The newspaper also describes the history of the appearance of the village in which Sechin is building a house. In 1997, part of the forest of the Barvikha sanatorium was received by Ara Abrahamyan’s Soglasie company. This land appeared in the arbitration case, as the prosecutor's office of the Moscow region tried to challenge the deal. “While the trial was going on, the plots were divided several times and then collected into new ones, their owners changed several times, so the court was unable to figure out how to return them and the plaintiffs lost in all instances,” the newspaper writes and clarifies that for of the new village, Abrahamyan managed to collect 29.36 hectares of land for the Barvikha sanatorium.

Near this village there are plots of the Apple Orchard cooperative, which was created in the 1990s by former co-owners of the Yukos oil company, headed by Mikhail Khodorkovsky. A total of seven cottages were built there, but in 2006 all the property was arrested by the Basmanny Court as part of the “YUKOS case”, and, according to Rosreestr, the arrest is still in effect. The sanatorium and the presidential administration, the newspaper clarifies, are demanding the Moscow Arbitration Court to demolish the unauthorized buildings.

He reminded me of the article in Vedomosti about hectares of expensive land in Barvikha and the super-mansions of state corporation employees. I was sure that the material was here, but the search did not turn up any results. The original article was called “Sechin builds a nest in Barvikha” and it can be seen in the archive, but now a corrected version of the material is on the website.

Vedomosti discovered Igor Sechin's house in Barvikha
His neighbor, the wife of Sergei Chemezov, put the newly built palace up for sale.
(house of Chemezov’s wife)

After the divorce in 2011, Sechin was left without a home in the countryside: a mansion with an area of 1,415 square meters. m and a plot of 0.5 hectares in the depths of Serebryany Bor, he gave to his ex-wife. Since the fall of 2014, Sechin has been building a new house on Rublyovka, near the Barvikha clinical sanatorium, by the Presidential Administration (UDP). Sechin’s plot of 3 hectares is located in the center of a new village, which does not yet have a name. It is hidden from prying eyes by a solid fence and a 100-meter strip of pine forest. Nearby are plots with an area of 3.4 hectares of three more Sechins, including two children of the head of Rosneft (see map in the photo gallery).

Khodorkovsky's garden

Bargain

Construction failed

But their houses are lost against the backdrop of Ignatova’s three-story mansion.

Palace for sale

In his income statement for 2014, Chemezov indicated that his wife owned a country house with an area of 4442.5 square meters. m. A house on Rublevka of the same area was put up for sale by several agencies in October last year. At first they asked for $22 million for the mansion; in May 2016, the price was raised to $30 million. The Rostec representative did not deny or confirm that this is Ignatova’s house.

Before the crisis, such a mansion would have cost $45–50 million and would have found its buyer, Sergei Goryainov from Point Estate is sure. But today it will be very difficult to sell it, the most popular product on Rublyovka is houses worth 50–100 million rubles, he continues: “Literally 10 people are now ready to buy expensive houses, and even then they are only willing to pay about $10 million.” They have plenty to choose from: only Kalinka Realty has 50 houses in its database priced above $15 million. Ignatova’s mansion has another feature that complicates the sale - difficult neighbors. In such cases, the buyer often needs to be agreed with them, warns Goryainov. Ignatova did not want to tell why she was only selling a completed house.

Oil industry neighbors

“It’s more likely for a lion to lie down with a lamb than for Sechin and Chemezov to be neighbors: their interests overlapped too often,” says a former federal official.

If the transactions took place at market prices, in 2014 Sechin could have paid at least $60 million for his plot, and Khudainatov - $20 million, based on the fact that the land in the neighboring village of Mayendorf Gardens was sold in 2014, according to Kalinka Realty estimates. from $200,000 per hundred square meters. In 2016, land fell in price to $150,000 per hundred square meters, and a new purchase could cost Sechin another $51 million.

Rosneft said it does not comment on the personal lives of company employees.

Five years ago, according to satellite map Rosreestr, there was a continuous forest here. During this time, residents of the new village managed to build a kilometer-long U-shaped road in the forest, which goes around all the plots and ends at the house of Sechin’s neighbor, the wife of Rostec CEO Ekaterina Ignatova.

The area of the three-story palace of Ekaterina Ignatova is a quarter larger than the area of a standard brick five-story building - 4442.5 square meters. m, indicated in the presentations posted on the website of the real estate agencies "Stars of Arbat", Vesco Realty and IntermarkSavills. Since October 2015, Ignatova has been trying to sell her house for $30 million, Vedomosti found out.

The design and finishing work was carried out by Manana Hernandez-Getashvili, a well-known designer among oligarchs and officials, writes the Rosbalt agency.

According to the project landscape design a fountain was supposed to appear in front of Ignatova’s house - required attribute palaces of officials. For their extensive vehicle fleet, the family of Sergei Chemezov decided to build a huge garage with an area of 374 square meters. m. In addition to five cars, the building will also house the servants of the Chemezov estate

What a beauty it was planned and everything went down the drain))
For a moment, Sergei Chemezov has never been involved in business, but the Colonel General has been familiar with GDP since the times of the GDR. His ex-wife was a close friend (and maybe still is) of Lyudmila Putina herself. The new wife Eatherina Ignatova (only 16 years younger) is officially a millionaire, but her biography is so meager that it is unclear where she came into owning a chain of restaurants, stakes in gas companies, etc. It is known for certain that they worked together with Chemezov in the Presidential Administration, Promexport, and Rosoboronexport.

I quote Forbes:

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Financial Club Bank (IFC)

Bank assets: 107 billion rubles

Year of birth: 1968

Education: Moscow State University communication lines

Career: Ekaterina Ignatova is the second wife of the head of Russian Technologies, Sergei Chemezov, and worked with him in the Presidential Administration, Promexport, and Rosoboronexport. The heyday of Ignatova’s career coincided with her marriage, and her salary was ten times the official salary of her high-ranking husband. Despite the fact that Ignatova owns only 13% of the shares of IFC, and nothing is known about her banking career before joining IFC, she headed the board of directors credit organization. Under her leadership, members of the Forbes list gather: the owner of Onexim Mikhail Prokhorov, the shareholder of Evraz Alexander Abramov and the head of Renova Viktor Vekselberg.

Detail: Ignatova owns 70% in the Katya company, which supplies AvtoVAZ (part of Russian Technologies) with automatic transmissions for the Lada Kalina car.

Sources: vedomosti.ru, lenta.ru, forbes.ru

Since the fall of 2014, the head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, has been building a new house on Rublevka, near the Barvikha clinical sanatorium, by the presidential administration (UDP), the Vedomosti newspaper reported on Wednesday, July 20. The 3-hectare plot owned by Sechin is located in the center of a new village without a name, but with a continuous fence around it and a 100-meter strip of pine forest.

According to the newspaper, next to the new house of the head of the oil company there are plots of 3.4 hectares of three more Sechins, including two children of the head of Rosneft - the first deputy director of the department of joint projects on the shelf of the company Ivan Sechin and the daughter of Inga Karimova. In addition, Varvara Sechina neighbors him, whose status in Rosneft refused to be disclosed. They received the plots in 2015, according to the newspaper, for $51 million.

Listing Sechin’s neighbors, the publication notes that among them were Rostec CEO Sergei Chemezov and his wife Ekaterina Ignatova, who, according to the newspaper, decided to sell the mansion in this village immediately after its construction was completed. This is about country house on Rublyovka with an area of 4442.5 sq. m in a palace style with a swimming pool.

Vedomosti clarifies that a house of the same area was put up for sale by several agencies in October 2015. Initially they asked for $22 million, and in May of this year they raised the price to $30 million. The Rostec representative did not deny that we are talking about Ignatova’s house. Ignatova herself did not want to tell the newspaper why she decided to sell only the house she had built.

At the same time, according to the head of a large oil company, the reason for the sale is that Chemezov’s wife no longer likes her neighbors. “It would be more likely for a lion to lie down with a lamb than for Sechin and Chemezov to be neighbors: their interests overlapped too often,” a former federal official commented on the relationship between the head of Rosneft and Rostec.

The publication explains that in 2013, a 1-hectare forest plot near the Podushkinskoe highway was bought by Alexei Khudainatov, the son of the owner of the Independent Oil and Gas Company (NNK), Sechin’s predecessor as head of Rosneft, Eduard Khudainatov. In 2014, Sechin himself appeared at the Barvikha NP. The publication was unable to find out from whom he bought 3 hectares in the center of the village. According to Vedomosti, Sechin could pay at least $60 million for his plot, and Khudainatov - $20 million, if the transactions took place at market prices.

In 2014, Sechin, according to Forbes, earned $17.5 million and third place in the ranking of the most expensive executives Russian companies. The head of Rosneft was not included in the next rating of the year, since legal proceedings initiated by him against Forbes magazine— Sechin did not agree with the results of the assessment of his remuneration. In the 2013 ranking, he took first place. According to Forbes, Sechin received $50 million in 2012.