Yanukovych's estate in Crimea: How the wife of the fugitive president lives

The estate of Viktor Yanukovych in Otradnoye near Yalta, which is popularly called the Tea House, is being prepared for winter. For example, the façade, windows, and doors of a 4-story palace are being changed from the outside. A couple of days ago there was no active work - the plaster was drying. During the finishing work, window and door openings were covered with chipboard slabs. Meanwhile, a few workers were working on the outer fence. Security monitored the empty pebble beach, which consists of several sectors, from the solarium. There were no residents in sight.

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“Yanukovych’s wife and some other members of his family live in the house,” say the owners of the cottages adjacent to the Tea House. – We don’t know whether she lives in the main house or in the neighboring ones, of which there are many throughout the territory. She hasn't been seen recently. It was hot in July and August and renovations began. Perhaps she left for a while.”

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It is curious that 2 hectares of land located above the estate of the ex-President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and leased in 2008 to Family Type Boarding House LLC (the official tenant of the land under the Tea House) were returned to the Magarach agricultural firm by court decision last year. . Let us remember that there were vineyards and the famous factory itself with wine cellars, which were destroyed. Therefore, after the court decision, a new 4-meter fence made of shell rock was built over Yanukovych’s estate, separating it from the returned lands of “Magarach”. This is exactly what the workers have been doing in recent days - it has not yet been plastered.

By the way, as former employees of the State Security Service said, one of the reasons why at one time they decided to take the land from “Magarach” was the unsafe location of the dacha of the ex-president of Ukraine.

“She is being shot at from all sides. From a security point of view, it is very vulnerable,” said one of the veterans of the special service. According to him, Yanukovych himself visited the Tea House several times for several hours. The eldest son Alexander was engaged in construction. Yanukovych's wife didn't like the house.

“She was with me once before the annexation of Crimea to Russia and called the house pretentious. Alas, times have changed, we had to “be content” with what we have,” said PolitNavigator’s interlocutor.

The estate consists of a 4-storey palace with a SPA center, a swimming pool and an artificial waterfall, a court and a 3-storey complex on the seashore. There is also a walking park area of ​​planted cypresses, pines and spruces, a rotunda, a picnic area and 4 sectors of a pebble beach with a solarium and two hanging holiday houses, utility rooms and houses for security and employees. The territory is surrounded by a 5-meter fence with barbed wire and video surveillance systems. The total area is 2 hectares.

As construction experts said, the construction of just one swimming pool, like in the Tea House, will cost at least 150 thousand dollars. According to realtors, the entire estate of the ex-president of Ukraine, taking into account the 250-meter beach area, could cost from $25 million.

It is curious that construction has resumed in the neighborhood of the Tea House, directly above two sectors of its beaches. They drive piles there. And adjacent to the dacha of the ex-president of Ukraine along the coast is an estate that is only slightly inferior to it in the size of the territory and the main house. All this land also belongs to a company associated with the Yanukovych family - Dolphin-2001. If Yanukovych’s estate itself is located on the site of the old ampelographic collection “Magarach”, then the rest of the territory is on the lands of the former sanatorium “Chernomorsky”. The total size of the beach area of ​​all estates, the only tenant of which is “Dolphin-2001”, is 11 beach sectors with a total length of about 700 meters.

Let us recall that the family of ex-President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych is also associated with an unfinished estate on Cape Aya, an existing complex in Balaklava and several more pre-revolutionary dachas in Simeiz.

The ex-president himself, after fleeing Ukraine, appeared in Crimea only once. I was in Sevastopol at the funeral of my youngest son Victor, who drowned in Lake Baikal in March.

The eldest son Alexander is visiting the peninsula and was the first to report that his mother had decided to live in Crimea. Viktor Yanukovych himself, according to media reports, his statements and information from the ex-prefect of the northern administrative district of Moscow Oleg Mitvol, lives in Rostov-on-Don and Moscow.