Penthouse in London – £23 million, 67-meter yacht Sparta – €99 million, two estates in Serebryany Bor in Moscow – up to 12 billion rubles.

Leonid Fedun became one of the few Russian oligarchs who escaped Western sanctions after the start of the SVO. The billionaire hasn’t been seen at matches lately “Spartak”, there was talk that he had left Russia. Life figured out where he could find shelter and what he left in Russia.

Rumors that Leonid Fedun is going to leave Russia are circulating throughout the Northeast Military District. Last summer, the billionaire left his post as vice president of Lukoil and sold Spartak. This football season, for the first time, I stopped appearing at the matches of my favorite club. The media wrote that he may have Cypriot citizenship. He is also one of the few domestic oligarchs on whom the West has not imposed sanctions, and this looks very ambiguous after the recent articles in Die Welt. According to the German publication, in March 2022, a scheme was organized according to which oil from the Bulgarian Lukoil plant, through a chain of intermediaries, covered up to 40% of the needs of Kyiv and the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In fact, Ukrainian tanks could be fueled with Lukoil diesel fuel. And it was Fedun who managed the concern at that time.

Be that as it may, behind the cordon of Leonid Fedun (No. 19 in Russian Forbes rating) immodest reserve airfields have long been overdue, where nothing prevents him from settling down forever.

However, Leonid Fedun may choose London to live. According to The Guardian, there, near Buckingham Palace, he has a penthouse worth £23 million in the One Hyde Park residential complex – this is by far the most expensive new building and the most glamorous address in the world. Bulletproof glass, silver-cream Art Deco-style lobbies, apartments made of oak, leather and lye, 24-hour service at the all-inclusive level of a five-star hotel, in the basement there is an ozone pool, squash courts, a golf simulator, an intimate cinema and a spa complex . For security purposes, there are scanners installed around the perimeter that recognize the iris of the eyes. There are also special cameras inside that take pictures of your back and play it back with a delay on the mirror so you can see what you look like from behind.

And the One Hyde Park residential complex is designed so that its residents never have to step foot on a regular sidewalk or jostle with the general public.

If Leonid Fedun wants, he can stay in London to visit his son, Anton Fedun. He runs two family hotels in London – Ampersand Hotelpurchased for £100 million, and Vintry & Mercer worth £60 million. The life of Fedun Jr. was recently discussed in detail wrote TheTimes: called him a British citizen and told about his £8.4 million apartment in the wealthy Marylebone quarter.

By the way, Fedun’s daughter, Ekaterina, too lives in the capital of England. She is known there as a party girl and socialite. Formally, the girl works for the British PR agency Bacchus. But here’s a strange thing: the social network Linkedin and the Rocketreach service – two powerful tools for finding employees of companies around the world – did not find Ekaterina Fedun on the Bacchus staff.

A large steel motor yacht Sparta, built just a couple of years ago in Dutch shipyards specifically for Leonid Fedun, is also up for sale for €99 million. This 67-meter vessel is equipped with an infinity pool, an oval Jacuzzi with an attached bar, sun loungers, a sauna and steam room, a limousine garage, a spiral staircase and a glass elevator connecting all decks.

About a kilometer from Leonid Fedun’s estate in Serebryany Bor is the estate of Zarema Salikhova, his common-law wife and mother of his five youngest children. Here we are talking about a huge mansion with an area of ​​1400 square meters and an average-sized plot of 25 acres. Price – up to two billion rubles.

How Leonid Fedun got rich

Leonid Fedun was born in Kyiv into an international and nomenklatura family. His father is Zhytomyr resident Arnold Antonovich, commander of the medical unit of a group of Soviet troops in Germany and subsequently the chief surgeon of the USSR Strategic Missile Forces. Nothing is known about Polina Lavrovna’s mother except that she had Finnish roots.

Fedun studied at the Rostov rocket school at the military-political faculty and at the military academy near Moscow at the department of philosophical sciences. He worked as a political instructor in military universities and rose to the rank of colonel. In the 80s, he became a lecturer at the All-Union Society “Knowledge”, which had a huge property base throughout the country and was simultaneously engaged in Soviet propaganda and scientific education. All lectures were agreed upon in advance and ideologized. If a person spoke for the first time, then inspectors were always present at his speeches. According to legend, on the eve of perestroika, Leonid Fedun gave a lecture to the oil workers of Kogalym and thus met the local boss Vagit Alekperov. In the nineties, they together created the Lukoil concern, and Fedun, at the same time, studied at Gaidar’s Higher School of Privatization and received the status of a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

And Fedun became an oligarch as a result of the default of the late nineties, when the dollar rose in price from six rubles to 21 in a couple of weeks.

“I knew that there would be a crisis, and I took a risk – I sold everything and exited all government short-term bonds. When everything collapsed in August 1998, everyone was running [в отчаянии], and I was just filled with happiness because I did everything right. I had cash, with which I later bought a lot of cheap assets, they served as the basis of my fortune – one day Fedun boasted.

After the start of the special operation, Leonid Fedun publicly complained about the “huge difficulties” that had arisen for him, behind the scenes he allegedly complained to lose as much as 99% of the fortune. Bloomberg experts were also pessimistic; they calculated his losses at minus 80%. However, according to new Forbes data, with Leonid Fedun everything is not so terrible. Yes, he is among the most impoverished Russian billionaires due to the SVO. But in the end, his family’s capital depleted only by a third, minus $4.2 billion, and is now equal to $9.2 billion. The Feduns retained an 11% stake in Lukoil and a stake in the Specialized Developer Spartak Stadium, which acts as a developer large residential projects in Moscow.