The city authorities are demanding through the court that part of the third and fourth floors of the Atrium shopping center be demolished, which they consider illegal construction. The buildings appeared under the previous mayor of Moscow. As Life.ru has found out, the founders of the defendant live in Los Angeles.
What they want to demolish in “Atrium”
The Moscow Property Department demanded that part of the Atrium shopping center on Zemlyanoy Val near Kursky Station be declared illegal and dismantled. According to the lawsuit filed with the Arbitration Court, the mezzanines of the third and fourth floors plus a separate room of 2,500 square meters are under threat of demolition. The defendants are the company Ingeokom-Trust, which manages Atrium, and the firm Atriland, which owns several rooms inside.
Fourth floor of the AtriumFour dozen tenants have been called in as third parties to the legal dispute. For example, representatives of the Karo film cinemas and the Crocs distributor Saboo (sections on the right and left on the fourth floor), the Chitai-gorod chain, the Vietcafe, Shokoladnitsa, Torro Grill, Rostik's restaurants, the Modi, Mezzatorre, Albion stores (sections on the right, left and in the center of the third floor), the Zarina, Love Republic, Henderson, Sneakerbox and Bootwood boutiques (sections on the right and left of the second floor), the Tehnikum gastro bistro, the Elabetta Franchi, Pinko, Marella, Twinset Milano, Liu Jo, Furla, Tous, Samsung brands, and the reStore:, Rive Gauche and Sunlight multi-brand retailers (first floor) have been summoned.
From the court case materialsWho are the owners of the Atrium shopping center and where do they live?
“Atrium” belongs to the heirs of the now deceased dollar billionaire from the Forbes list Mikhail Rudyaka native of Western Ukraine and a geologist by profession. In Soviet times, Rudyak Sr. was a high-ranking official at the Hydroproject Institute and the Ministry of Energy. On the eve of perestroika, he founded the Ingeokom construction cooperative, which quickly grew into a business empire. Evil tongues say that Rudyak's personal connections contributed to this. He was friends with the former mayor of the capital Yuri Luzhkov and served as his advisor on a voluntary basis. It seems that thanks to this friendship, Rudyak's Ingeokom received major city projects: it built the Lefortovo tunnel, demolished the Moskva Hotel, built a number of metro stations, the Moscow-City underground complex, Okhotny Ryad, and Atrium.
“Atrium” belongs to the heirs of the now deceased dollar billionaire from the Forbes list Mikhail RudyakIn 2007, Mikhail Rudyak died. His heirs are his widow Margarita, sons Alexander and Ernest, daughter Julia – started sell out the company's assets, by 2020 the family remained Of the large non-residential real estate, only “Atrium” exists, and that's because there was no buyer for the shopping and entertainment center. That's what the business media wrote. “Atrium” is managed by the firm “Ingeokom-trust”. Its founders are members of the family of the late Rudyak and Dmitry Sokolovhis long-time partner. There was no income in 2023, a loss of minus 4.6 billion rubles was recorded.
Owners of “Atrium”Perhaps such indicators of “Atrium” are connected with the fact that its owners have firmly settled abroad.
Back in the 90s, Mikhail Rudyak moved his family to the United States. According to the databases, all of his relatives have residence permits in this country. The media reported that, When he died, they even wanted to bury him in Bostonbut were unable to deliver the body from Russia (*aggressor country). According to telephone directories, the deceased, his wife and children lived in Massachusetts at the addresses of an estate on Woodward Street in the elite village of Waban and a purchased suite in the five-star Mandarin Oriental Hotel on one of Boston's embankments. These family nests have already been sold for a total of almost $8 million, and everyone has gone their separate ways.
Ernest and Julia Rudyak
Widow Margarita Rudyak was almost a professional dancer in the USAIt appears that widow Margarita Rudyak occupies a privately purchased $3 million penthouse in the five-star Setai South Beach hotel on the beach in Miami Beach, Florida. She has registered a Bentley Continental, an Audi Q7, a Mitsubishi Lancer, and a Mercedes CL-class in her name. She recently quit competitive pair dancing. Her level was solid; she and her African-American partner even participated in the world championship.
Daughter Julia Rudyak married a lawyer from a reputable firm in Philadelphia. The eldest son Alexander Rudyak ran the Nevada-registered Enhanced Microbial Oil Recovery Corporation and was the first member of the family to own real estate, purchasing a $1.7 million waterfront duplex in Miami Beach with four balconies, a rooftop pool, and a custom-made triplex king bed. Youngest son Ernest Rudyak is a Los Angeles entrepreneur who lives in a furnished apartment on the 36th floor of the Ritz Carlton Residences, which he purchased for $1.7 million.
The late Rudyak's elderly parents and sister enjoy a large home worth over $2 million in Newton, Massachusetts.
Estate in Waban
Penthouse in Miami Beach
Apartments in Los Angeles
Duplex in Miami Beach
The Rudyak family may still have a lot of residential property in their homeland. An apartment in a historic mansion on Povarskaya Street near Arbat, reconstructed by their late father (300 million rubles), a royal mansion in a pre-revolutionary city estate and seven rooms in a former residential building of the USSR MGB employees opposite the Atrium (up to 750 million rubles in total), a six-room apartment in the elite residential complex Dom u Nikitskikh Vorota (300 million rubles), a three-level apartment in a former tenement house in the Basmanny District (up to 70 million rubles), a three-room apartment near Novospassky Bridge (50 million rubles), and mansions in the Rublevka settlements of Les and Uspenskoye.
House at Nikitsky Gate
Historical house on Povarskaya
Residential building for employees of the USSR MGBWho else will be responsible for the illegal construction in Atrium?
The second defendant in the Moscow Property Department's lawsuit will be the company “Atriland”, which, according to the Unified State Register of Real Estate, owns five thousand square meters on the fourth floor of “Atrium”. The company has no income, and its losses for the past year exceeded 100 million rubles.
The founders of Atriland are oligarch Andrey Bokarev, who owns shares in Transmashholding and Kuzbassrazrezugol, restaurateur Valery Mareev, who is developing franchises for Shokoladnitsa, Burger King and Chaikhona No. 1, and the wife of Maxim Kagansky, a former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who took up legal consulting.
