In June, an announcement appeared on a real estate website: a 4-room apartment with an area of 157 square meters is being sold on Kutuzovsky Prospekt. The cost of an apartment in a house where the Soviet elite, including Brezhnev and Andropov, used to live, is 59 million rubles.
CIAN, “4-room apartment, 157 m²”: Bright and spacious four-room apartment in a historic building. The design is made in the French Empire style. The main hall impresses with handmade paintings, ceiling moldings and columns. A working fireplace sets a special atmosphere in the office. The owners of the apartment will also be pleased with the beautiful views: the windows face two sides, the prospect and Moscow City.
The large kitchen is equipped with built-in appliances and furniture, there are spacious wardrobes and a separate storage room in the hallway. The apartment has two bathrooms, the main one has a TV and a jacuzzi. Total silence is ensured by triple glazing. And for security, an alarm system and a video surveillance system are installed.
In the last century, the government elite lived in the house – the former general secretaries of the CPSU Central Committee: Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko. Now among the inhabitants of the house are famous actors, politicians and musicians. There is parking in the yard. Near the house there is a school, kindergartens, shops and necessary services. Within walking distance is Kutuzovskaya metro station. — Inset K.ru
The current owner of the apartment, as Metla found out, is the daughter of presidential aide Yuri Ushakov. The latter worked for a long time as ambassador to the United States, where, in his own words, he spent weekends on luxury dacha in the family circle, frying shish kebab and steaming in the bath. Then several years in the government apparatus, and now he is an assistant Putin on foreign policy issues.
Here Ushakov acts as Putin’s mouthpiece. For example, just a few days before the war, he calmly claimed that “the United States is fanning hysteria around the invasion of Ukraine”. Echoed Putin, while the Russian army was preparing for the offensive. And right now, peaceful people are dying in Ukraine, residential areas are being shelled.
Yuri Ushakov himself is doing great. He has been helping Putin all these long years and lives in abundance. In 2011, the Ushakov family buys an apartment of 220 square meters on Gogolevsky Boulevard. This is the very center of Moscow, LCD “Russian Modern”.
The Kremlin is a 15-minute leisurely walk from the house. Now such an apartment costs about 210 million rubles. Putin’s assistant did not take out a mortgage, and his official annual income on the eve of the purchase was less than 3 million.
The assistant’s daughter, Tatyana Ushakova, settled very close: she lives in a club house on Ostozhenka, in the Golden Mile area.
The apartment was bought in 2019, its area is slightly smaller than his father’s, 172 square meters, but the price is higher: 258 million.
In addition, Tatyana has a 157-meter apartment on Kutuzovsky Prospekt, which we wrote about at the very beginning. Not yet sold.
Where Tatyana works now is unknown. But until recently (from 2015 to April 2022), she was the CEO of the Chubb insurance company in Russia. The corporation is headquartered in Switzerland, and the legal chain of ownership of the assistant’s daughter’s employer runs through the UK and the US.
In 2015, before buying a large apartment for a quarter of a billion, Tatyana acquires suburban real estate in the Odintsovo district. 3 thousand square meters of land and a house of 504 square meters. The market value of the estate is about 150 million rubles.
In addition, we found a decent car fleet of the Ushakov family, consisting mainly of Mercedes, two of which have prestigious numbers of the AMP series. One of these “AMRs” belongs to Ushakov’s wife Svetlana, and the other belongs to his grandson Mikhail, who, by the way, was born in Sweden. The total cost of the Ushakovs’ fleet is 70 million rubles.
Total: the total value of the discovered assets of the presidential assistant’s family is almost 750 million. And this is without taking into account the house in Plyos, Ivanovo region. The amount is certainly not final, because quite recently Putin extended Ushakov’s term of office until spring 2023.
[…] The recreation complex for Russian diplomats in the state of Maryland is located on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. It’s about 100 kilometers by car from Washington DC.
As the Daily Mail found out, the authorities of the Soviet Union acquired the complex in 1972. When the USSR collapsed, the Russian Federation bought the estate for $3 million.
“Dacha” includes 12 residential premises and dozens of cottages, each of which has four apartments. In general, the estate can accommodate 40 families at the same time.
After Obama announced the closure of the complexes, Daily Mail photographer Gary Landsman traveled to Maryland and made a report from the embassy rest home.
In the rooms, the journalist saw a lot of gilding, ornaments and paintings. Landsman noted the rich decoration of the house and high ceilings.
The photographer also drew attention to a large garden in good condition and gazebos.
Residents of an embassy estate in Maryland annually invite local residents to a Labor Day party, writes the NY Times. As Julie Pattersen, who has lived on a horse farm nearby for 12 years, told the publication, the rest of the time Russians keep apart from their American neighbors.
In 2007, Washington Life Magazine published story about a dacha in maryland. At that time, the Russian Ambassador to the United States, Yuri Ushakov, lived on the estate with his family. The official served from 1998 to 2008, after which he returned to the Russian Federation. Now he is an assistant to the President of Russia, in charge of foreign policy issues.
Ushakov told Washington Life Magazine that his family considered the building a temporary home. The ambassador admitted that the complex has a kind of “hunting” lodge for entertainment, which received special guests.
No one really hunted there, but that’s what we called the place.
Svetlana Ushakova, wife of the former Russian ambassador to the United States
The 182,000 square meter farm has belonged to Great Britain since the 1600s. In 1702, the Republican Richard Tilghman bought the land. In 1925, the farm was sold to General Motors CFO John Raskob. The entrepreneur just built the current mansion, which was later restored by the Russian authorities.
After the death of Raskob, real estate with adjacent lands literally wandered from hand to hand, until the Soviet Union acquired it at the height of the Cold War. Local residents, Washington Life Magazine recalled, were suspicious of the new owners and were even afraid at first that the Russians would bring their warships here. […]
