Ordinary citizens have always been curious about how the powers that be live. And if the well-being of a billionaire who has created his own empire only arouses admiration and motivates for self-realization, then the luxury that the first persons of the state, who are, in fact, ordinary high-ranking officials, are accustomed to, sometimes raises many questions. In particular, many Russians are interested in Putin's residences. How many of them actually exist? Let's try to figure it out together.
Putin's official residences
According to the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, the former Russian Prime Minister has four of them. The most important of them, of course, is the Moscow Kremlin. It is followed by Gorki-9. D. Medvedev and his family now live in this country residence of Putin, which is only 15 km from the capital. By the way, the size of this complex is 80 hectares. As Putin's third residenceIt is considered to be a small house in Valdai. Well, the fourth place is occupied by Bocharov Ruchey, which is located in Sochi. Compared to the leaders of Germany and the United States, who have only two places for work and leisure, this seems to be not so much. But is this information true? If you count only the official residences of Putin, then yes. The question arises: "And how many palaces and dachas are at the disposal of the former Russian prime minister?" According to Boris Nemtsov and Leonid Martynyuk, who wrote a sensational report on "the life of a slave in the galleys", their total number came close to two dozen. And this despite the fact that the prime minister's officially declared income slightly exceeds one hundred thousand dollars. And the most interesting thing is that 9 of the 20 current palaces appeared just during the reign of the GDP.
Modest abodes of the Russian elite
In 2010, businessman S. Kolesnikov, who left the country in a timely manner (?), wrote an open letter to D. Medvedev, in which he said that a luxurious residence was being built on the Black Sea coast specifically for the personal needs of the Russian prime minister. According to him, Putin's new luxurious residence in Gelendzhik is estimated at no less than a billion dollars. What do you think could be built with such funds? They say that in Praskoveevka, which is located not far from Gelendzhik, for no reason a whole luxurious town arose. It consists of a huge main building with a palace gate, made in an exquisite Italian style,a helipad capable of accommodating three helicopters, a he alth complex, elevators to the beach, a "tea house" and much more. According to S. Kolesnikov, and he used to be very close to the current president's entourage, V. Putin personally supervised the progress of construction… Bocharov Ruchey is no less remarkable.
This is the name of Putin's Sochi residence. This two-storey villa is made in the spirit of Stalinist classicism. There are two swimming pools (sea and fresh water), a helipad, a yacht dock and a gym. When you learn about such facts, somehow you can’t even believe that such residences are used not by some oil tycoon or an Arab sheikh, but by the first person of a country whose twenty million inhabitants barely make ends meet…
