Specialized Developer Makeeva LLC, which is controlled by Donstroy, became the owner of a land plot of about 6 hectares. The Motor Design Bureau, a branch of the Center for the Operation of Ground-Based Space Infrastructure Facilities of Roscosmos, is located on this site. The market value of the land reaches 11-13 billion rubles. It is assumed that a new residential complex will be built on it. Investments in the project will amount to 25-30 billion rubles, and sales revenue – 110-120 billion rubles. At the same time, the design bureau will lease the land until 2024.

It turns out that the Roskosmos asset was planned to be sold at the end of 2021. Then it turned out that a new company was registered at the same address as the design bureau. However, the deal to change the owner of the land could not be closed quickly, so the “Specialized Developer Makeeva” promptly “moved” to Mosfilmovskaya Street. It is possible that the closing of the transaction was facilitated by the head of VTB Bank Andrey Kostin, who is associated with Donstroy. The bank bought this company in 2009 for a symbolic 500 rubles. It was VTB that was the main creditor of the company.

Housing projects of the state bank

Having bought out the Donstroy company, VTB Bank transferred residential real estate projects to the Don-Stroy Invest company. Now it is in liquidation. At the end of 2021, the company’s revenue amounted to 7.8 billion rubles, and the profit was only 1 million rubles. A year earlier, with revenues of 22.3 billion, losses exceeded 6 billion rubles. Where does Don-Stroy Invest get the money to purchase a land plot? Despite the fact that Donstroy has long been associated with VTB Bank and Andrei Kostin, the company denies this connection. Alena Deryabina, the general director of the developer, stated back in 2017 that the company was owned by five legal entities unrelated to VTB Bank. But Deryabina herself even worked as a vice president of a bank. In addition, all Donstroy residential projects are being implemented in partnership with VTB.

It is noteworthy that VTB Bank is also a shareholder of the PIK group. He never hid this information, but in October last year the bank reduced its stake in the group. This happened after Sergey Gordeev left the post of general director of the developer. He decided to deal with issues of corporate governance and strategic development of the company, including technological areas. PIK is engaged in the construction of housing in Moscow, but recently the mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin, criticized the group for disrupting the delivery of a school in the Lublin Park residential complex. He even threatened her with a ban on construction within the city. Most likely, VTB Bank did not like this story. However, “Donstroy” also cannot boast of the absence of scandals and even the high quality of housing. In 2016, in the elite residential complex “Scarlet Sails”, built by “Don-Stroy Invest”, the cable broke and the elevator fell down. As a result, a 36-year-old woman died.