Real estate in Moscow and St. Petersburg, hotels in Sochi, houses in Italy and a yacht worth €130 million by the owner of LSR Group

Andrey Molchanov

The Sochi prosecutor’s office is checking the legality of the acquisition of sanatoriums, the most famous of which were bought by the St. “LSR Group”. How is the owner doing business? Molchanov?


If you look at the reporting data for all companies from the LSR Group, it turns out that about half of them have liquidity problems: some do not have equity capital, someone recently reduced the size of the authorized capital, some are simply unprofitable, even the parent company in its reports for the last year indicated that, despite decent earnings, the outflow of money from the company exceeds their receipt by almost a billion rubles.

Molchanov’s mansion on Rublyovka

The main Petersburg address of Andrey Molchanov is the famous house with a rotunda and a turret on Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt. The location is excellent: the most respectable place on the Petrograd side, in the courtyard there is a garden with a bronze group “Dancing Girls”, a little further away – Anikushinsky Square. This modern building at the turn of the millennium was built by the firm of Molchanov himself. Even among native Petersburgers, few people notice that this is a creation of our time.

There are only 10 apartments in the building. All have high ceilings, semi-circular living rooms and arched oak windows. Andrei Molchanov has the most expensive option there – a 270-square-meter penthouse in the attic. Such real estate will cost from 140 million rubles.

Andrey Molchanov’s Moscow housing is even more impressive. Judging by the bases, he can occupy a two-level mansion of 385 square meters in the Grand-Prix House residential complex in the most fashionable quarter of the city – Ostozhenka. The apartments of the house have large terraces for the winter garden, as well as at least 15 panoramic windows with an orientation to all four cardinal directions. A beautiful view opens up on the Zachatievsky Monastery, Moscow City and the historical center. The internal territory is landscaped with the involvement of the best masters of landscape design. There is a luxurious Japanese-style garden with an artificial waterfall, and walking paths paved with natural stone. The price for such a living space is about 630 million rubles.

The eldest son of Molchanov also lives luxuriously. The whole year before last and part of the past, he spent time in a three-room apartment in Bolshoi Kislovsky Lane. This is the very heart of Moscow – the complex of residential buildings “Kislovskoe”, built in 1928-1929 for party bosses. For example, Semashko, Bonch-Bruevich and Novikov-Priboy lived there. The cost of a treshka son of Molchanov may exceed 60 million rubles.

But now the actual registration of the eldest son of Molchanov is different – the club house “Bakst” next to the Patriarch’s Ponds. The building is named after the artist Lev Bakst. His paintings are the main decoration of the facade. There is everything for a beautiful life here: a 24-hour concierge fulfills any desire of the residents; the gardener tends the inner gardens, in which the brooks murmur; the apartments have wood-burning fireplaces, seven-meter windows and a “smart home” system. In Bakst, Molchanov’s son has a duplex with an area of ​​230 square meters. Price from 100 million.

According to telephone directories, Molchanov’s eldest son sometimes lives in the St. Petersburg suburb on Ugolny Ostrov, washed by the Sestroretsk reservoir. There he occupies a mansion built in Alpine style, at an approximate cost of 150–275 million rubles.

On New Year’s Eve, the Molchanovs go to the village of Pidma, Podporozhsky district. This is a picturesque wilderness: the last settlement in the direction of Petrozavodsk in the Leningrad Region, then there is a swamp and there is no road. There is a dacha here, which could have been left to Andrei Molchanov by his great-grandfather. Life found her. We are talking, it seems, about the whole estate: there is a pier on the Svir River, and a children’s pirate ship for games, and several buildings for various purposes, over which a large three-story mansion rises. It is difficult to imagine the price of home ownership: there is nothing like it in the district. Probably tens of millions of rubles.

Molchanov family estate
Home ownership of the Molchanovs from satellite images

The Molchanov family also had simpler real estate. For example, a Moscow four-room apartment in a new building on Marxistskaya Street (about 50 million rubles) and a St. Petersburg kopeck piece in a Stalinist building on Kartashikhina Street (about 15 million rubles).

Molchanov’s eldest son studied at New York University. According to an American directory, at that time he could rent apartments in the famous 76-story skyscraper in Lower Manhattan at Spruce Street, 8. The price of a monthly rent is from 4.6 to 25 thousand dollars.

Now the eldest son works in his father’s company, but on social networks indicates that he lives in Geneva. About the middle son of Molchanov, it is known that at birth he received a Russian passport at the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Switzerland.

By business press information, Andrey Molchanov in Italy owns two households with a total area of ​​899 sq. meters and land plots with an area of ​​5.2 thousand square meters.

Megayacht Aurora

Forbes.ru, 06/27/2022, “Billionaire Andrei Molchanov is selling a boat for €130 million”: The main owner of LSR Andrey Molchanov (No. 104, $ 1.2 billion) put up for sale his megayacht Aurora. The announcement of the sale of the vessel appeared on Burgess yacht broker website. The fact that the boat belongs to Molchanov is known to two Forbes interlocutors in the yacht market. We sent a request to a representative of LSR, but the company declined to comment.

According to the site, the businessman wants to raise €130 million. The price is quite high for a boat of this size, due to the fact that it is relatively new and built at one of the best and most expensive shipyards – the German Lurssen in 2017. The Aurora is fitted with a steel hull and aluminum superstructure, interiors (in Art Deco style) and exterior were designed by the famous British studio Winch Design with Art. Thanks to them, the yacht is known in the market as the “Project Gatsby”. The internal volume of the boat is 2113 gross tons, it has four guest cabins. The cozy observation room on the upper deck has a daybed and lounge area with bar stools. The gym with two large skylights and panoramic views is equipped with sliding glass doors leading to the aft terrace. There is a jacuzzi and two bars on the stern. The upper deck in the stern is designed for recreation and entertainment. The huge sun lounger at the stern has a removable canopy, there is a dining room for 12 guests with a buffet, a sit-down bar inside, decorated in the style of 1920s motor racing, and several cozy lounges. If you count the owner’s cabin on the upper deck, the boat can accommodate 16 guests and up to 22 crew members. […]

Now the boat is in the Turkish port of Gocek. The ship arrived there from the coast of Spain. As the yachting media wrote, in March 2022, the ship miraculously escaped detention in Barcelona. When the “special operation” began, the yacht was undergoing a “secret” repair at the MB92 shipyard in the port of Barcelona. — Inset K.ru