Over the past few days, reports have begun appearing on social media that a number of Russian “tourists” will be unable to enter occupied Yevpatoria because, as it “suddenly became clear,” the “Tsar Yevpator” Hotel, where they allegedly booked and paid for summer rooms back in the winter, was “nationalized” by the occupiers back in December 2025.
The occupiers made no “official statements” on this matter, and the de facto “primary source of information” was a local “individual entrepreneur” named Yuriy Pivovarov, who allegedly “rented” the hotel from two “Ukrainian owners.”
This businessman does not provide the names or contact information of the alleged beneficiaries of the hotel, and the hotel’s website states that it “will not operate during the 2026 resort season.”
It’s worth noting that in the occupiers’ “registers,” Pivovarov is listed as the “director” of two entities: the “tourism and health company” “Academy” and the “Coral” sanatorium.
Furthermore, in these same “registers,” since 2014, the “founders” of “Academiya” have been Rostislav and Georgy Shchokin, and of “Korall,” Natalia Shchokina, Faina Tedeeva, and Viktor Kreydich.
We previously wrote about these beneficiaries of “Coral,” located in Zaozerne, Yevpatoria. It was noted that since 2010, its co-owners have been the spouses of two “highly respected individuals,” namely the wife of then-Party of Regions MP Elbrus Tedeev, the aforementioned Tedeev, and Natalia Shchekin, the wife of the president of the Kyiv “Interregional Academy of Personnel Management”, Rostislav Shchokin.
Regarding Kreidich, we noted that this Belarusian has been a fixture in the “Russia-Belarus” Friendship Society” and the “Belarus-Ukraine-Russia-China” Friendship Strengthening Council” since February 2022, where he has expressed rabid pro-Russian and anti-Western rhetoric.
We reported that from 2015 to mid-2022, “Korall” “concluded 25 contracts, 21 of which it fulfilled,” with the most recent of those identified dating back to May 2022. The aforementioned “Academiya” also carried out the occupiers’ “state contracts.”
We also reported that “Korall”‘s beneficiaries, including those who visited Crimea after 2014, denied the obvious, claiming “forged signatures” and the like, clearly relying on the “celebrity couple” and their supposed “political immunity.”
We should add that the aforementioned Pivovarov is also listed as the occupiers’ contact person for a number of other Yevpatoria properties, clearly playing the role of the aforementioned “front man.”
