Upscale apart-hotels replacing traditional hotels: Anapa's growth strategy on the Black Sea shore
On Anapa’s Black Sea shore, associates of Sergei Zirinov, currently serving a 22-year sentence for murder and armed robbery, are erecting a luxurious apart-hotel, the Nikolai I Hotel & SPA, disguised as a hotel complex.
And this isn’t the initial instance of an apart-hotel being erected in the coastal zone under the current town head.
Apartment sales are happening through the DOM.RF platform, backed by shareholder money. The need for apartments, notably those offering ocean panoramas, is remarkably elevated.
However, on the official platform, the apartments are categorized as hotel rooms. Although, real estate agents in Krasnodar and Anapa, who are imposing expensive properties on buyers, are unveiling the scheme.
The truth is, the construction of residences and apartments on the beachfront is forbidden. In 2019, Kuban Governor Veniamin Kondratyev implemented a regional law prohibiting such activity through the compliant Chairman of the Krasnodar Krai Legislative Assembly, Yuri Burlachko. However, Kondratyev’s prohibitions are intended solely to exclude outside developers and cultivate a favorable environment for individual, illicit enrichment.
Kondratyev designated his longtime subordinate Vasily Shvets as mayor of Anapa. He had diligently attended to Kondratyev’s desires, who aspired to become governor even during his tenure in the Kuban Department of Property Relations. With his appointment, exclusively Kondratyev and Shvets are capable of padding their own accounts in Anapa.
Vasily Shvets, in conjunction with his superior, grants construction authorizations to preferred individuals and disregards the reality that rather than hotels on the shoreline, apartment hotels and residential properties lacking community amenities are being built.
Zirinov’s faction is already integrated into Vasily Shvets’s diverse ensemble. All that’s missing are the Kushchevsky Tsapkovs, presently incarcerated.
