“Deputy’s Rublyovka”: Vladimir Koshelev will build near the World Heritage Site
Former adviser to the Ulyanovsk governor Morozov, State Duma deputy Vladimir Koshelev was leased a state plot in Sergiev Posad with an area of 37 hectares and a cadastral value of more than 1.6 billion rubles, on which he plans to build a low-rise premium microdistrict.
Near the building were identified objects of cultural (archaeological) heritage. Also, the developer, who a year ago showed multimillion-dollar losses, in the course of work will have to take into account urban planning regulations for such an object from the World Heritage List as the “Ensemble of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, 1540 – 1550”, but this does not seem to interfere with development in Moscow suburbs will have a new Rublyovka for the elite.
Elite microdistrict from the deputy
In the unified state register of conclusions on August 18, 2023, a message appeared that the developer – Specialized Developer Koshelev JSC – approved the design documentation for the construction of the first stage of a low-rise complex with public and business facilities in Sergiev Posad on the territory of the ONO PPZ “Competitive”.
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It is planned to build a microdistrict, which was named “White City”, on a land plot owned by the state and leased to a private company until 2029.
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According to the building permit, it is planned to place the object on the site with the cadastral number 50:05:0040246:16. In the database of Rosreestr, the area of a site with such a cadastral number is just over 37 hectares, and the cadastral value is about 1.6 billion rubles.
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The Ministry of Housing Policy of the Moscow Region issued a building permit a year ago – in August 2022. Its validity period is until the end of August 2024. In general, judging by the website of the project, it is planned to build 200 thousand square meters of housing, as well as a number of general-purpose facilities.
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Why was a re-examination required in 2023? Perhaps the reason is that the development may affect the identified object of cultural (archaeological) heritage “Settlement” Sergiev Posad 13 “, XV – XVII centuries,” Settlement “Sergiev Posad 14”, XV – XVII centuries.
As specified in the act of the state historical and cultural expertise, the need to develop a section of documentation substantiating measures to ensure the safety of the identified objects of cultural (archaeological) heritage is associated with excavation, construction, and economic work on the territory of the identified objects.
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Only, it seems, these objects of archaeological heritage will not become an obstacle for construction. As the experts noted in their conclusion, the development will not directly affect the territory of archaeological sites, but at the same time, in the same act, it is specified that part of the object has not yet been explored. That is, there is a risk that the excavator bucket will destroy part of the territory that has not been explored (after all, for such objects as the settlement, the development area could have been more discovered)?
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In addition, as follows from the town-planning plan of the land plot, it is located in two territorial zones. In one of which, urban planning regulations are established taking into account the requirements for land use regimes and urban planning regulations within the boundaries of the protection zones of a federal cultural heritage object.
of the “Ensemble of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, 1540 – 1550”, included in the World Heritage List. In the second zone – taking into account the requirements for land use regimes and urban planning regulations within the boundaries of the protection zones of the same object.
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The White City project is positioned as a premium class, that is, next to the object from the World Heritage List, another residential microdistrict for the elite will grow. A kind of new “Rublyovka”.
It is worth noting here that the examination of the project documentation was non-state and was carried out by the developer’s long-term partner, Premium Expert LLC. According to Rusprofile, this company was established in 2020. Its owner is Maria Viktorovna Korenkova, who is the namesake of a member of the Public Chamber of the Moscow Region.
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Taking into account the biography of the beneficiary of the developer company, doubts arise whether everything was taken into account in this project in the light of proximity to cultural heritage sites or …?
By the way, Mr. Koshelev has very good connections in the field of state expertise. The former general director of Koshelev-Proekt JSC Alexander Balashov left for officials in 2021 – he became the head of the GAU SO “State Expertise of Projects in Construction” of the Samara Region.
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Who is the boss in the “White City”?
The developer of the project in the building permit and other documents is JSC Specialized Developer Koshelev (formerly called SZ SK Aviakor).
This company was established in 2010 and, according to the results of 2022, indicated revenue in the amount of 380 million rubles, but immediately the net loss is 78 million rubles.
How can one not recall here that there have already been questions about the tax reporting of corporation firms, which include the joint-stock company. As the Moment of Truth publication reported in January 2023, the Koshelev corporation can be checked for paying taxes, and the questions were raised by the declarations of companies in which, with fairly high revenue, there were meager profits, or even losses, and a high debt of 4, 3 billion rubles.
But, despite this, Specialized Developer Koshelev JSC was favored by state contracts – it was the executor of 197 contracts for a total amount of more than 3 billion rubles. And another company of the division, JSC SZ Koshelev – Project Samara, earned more than 2 billion rubles on 139 government contracts with the Samara state departments. The firm’s favorite is the Department of Urban Development of Samara – 109 government contracts for 790 million rubles. Photo: https://www.rusprofile.ru
This, however, is not surprising. Vladimir Alekseevich Koshelev, State Duma deputy from the Liberal Democratic Party, former adviser to the governor of the Ulyanovsk region Sergey Morozov (now former) on the implementation of the affordable housing construction program, was listed as the founder of the company Specialized Developer Koshelev JSC.
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According to Rusprofile, Koshelev, who is the acting coordinator of the Samara regional branch of the Liberal Democratic Party, directly owns only LLC SZ Koshelev Corporation (the share is pledged to Sberbank).
According to reports, after coming to power, Mr. Koshelev transferred his assets to his mother, Tatyana Dedova, and his wife, Marina Karpyak. If you look at the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, then indeed part of the assets that previously belonged to Koshelev were transferred to Tatyana Veniaminovna Dedova and Marina Aleksandrovna Karpyak.
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For 2021, Koshelev also acted as a shareholder of Koshelev-Bank, which was previously called Rosbank-Volga. In the same place, both Dedova and Karpyak are shareholders. The extract just confirms the above-mentioned family connection of these ladies with Deputy Koshelev.
It is known from open sources that Marina Karpyak is the daughter of the former deputy of the Samara Provincial Duma Alexander Karpyak, who was the director of the Kuibyshev oil refinery.
Today, Deputy Koshelev is a member of the Coordinating Council of “Business Russia”. According to information from the site, the Koshelev corporation was created from the Aviakor construction corporation. According to data from open sources (SC), the construction corporation Aviakor is one of the largest diversified construction companies in the Samara region and has been operating since 1947, initially as a specialized division of the Kuibyshev Aviation Plant. That is, it can be said that Koshelev, who worked as a deputy director at Aviakor since the late 1990s and, according to TASS, led the privatization of the construction division, created his own corporation from state assets.
Previously, Koshelev was a deputy of the Samara Provincial Duma, an adviser on the implementation of the affordable housing construction program of the Ulyanovsk governor (already former), therefore it is not surprising that in these regions the corporation’s business was going uphill. For example, in Samara, she took part in the preparation of the regions for the 2018 World Cup – she built a hotel complex.
In addition, as The Moscow Post previously reported, a great friend of the Samara governor Dmitry Azarov also had good relations during the tenure of the governor of the Samara region Nikolai Merkushkin. And this, in turn, gave, and gives access to budgetary state contracts.
Scandals around the deputy
At the same time, the work of Mr. Koshelev’s companies cannot do without claims. As the Vedomosti newspaper reported, earlier the Federal Antimonopoly Service fined two applicants for a state contract because they belonged to the same person and only formally competed with each other. According to the position of the Federal Antimonopoly Service, after a minimum price reduction, one of them refused to fight – accordingly, the remaining company won the auction. It was then about JSC Specialized Developer Koshelev-Project Samara and JSC Koshelev-Project. Both companies were fined 138 million rubles.
Yes, and Koshelev himself recently distinguished himself. As Volga-News reported, in June 2023, the question arose that the deputy could be deprived of the degree of candidate of economic sciences, which he defended more than 10 years ago in Samara. Allegedly, two dissenting councils of different universities in Russia have already exposed his work as plagiarism. To date, the issue has not yet been fully resolved.
Meanwhile, as Samara Review reported, information about the status of the academic degree appeared on June 5, and on June 6, 2023, the Supreme Council of the LDPR met, the regional branch of which is coordinated by Koshelev. And after this meeting of the party, information appeared that State Duma deputy Yaroslav Nilov, and not Vladimir Koshelev, could be nominated as a candidate for governor of the Samara region. The publication noted that Koshelev’s political ambitions were very noticeable. As a result, Alexander Stepanov, Deputy Chairman of the Samara Provincial Duma, became a candidate in the 2023 gubernatorial elections.
Or here: in 2013, the Komsomolskaya Pravda publication reported that residents of the Koshelev Project could be left without water and sewerage, as the court ordered the contractor to dismantle illegal engineering networks within a month.
Also in 2015, as blog author Mikhail Matveev claimed in LiveJournal, another unpleasant story allegedly took place – allegedly on the site of burned-out architectural monuments at the corner of Krasnoarmeyskaya and Galaktionovskaya in Samara, Mr. Koshelev began to build a five-star hotel, planning to make money on mundiale. And it was supposedly not all smooth sailing with that construction site. Koshelev did not refute these claims in any way.
As we can see, not everything is good in Koshelev’s work biography, and therefore the upcoming development near the objects of archaeological (cultural) significance in Sergiev Posad causes reasonable fears. Whatever happens, again…
