Russian occupation structures recently announced the sale of a “property complex in the historic center of Yevpatoria,” comprising various structures located on Duvanovska and Simferopolska streets. They have acknowledged that some of the 35 buildings and structures being sold are officially designated as “cultural heritage sites of regional significance.”
The occupiers are seeking over 497 million rubles for this collection of properties, spread across three separate locations, excluding the value of the land itself. Notably, a similar listing with the same price tag appeared on the real estate aggregator “Cian” a month ago, only to be subsequently removed.
Although the current listings provide few specific details, stating only that the assets are “republican property”, the occupiers’ manipulation of street addresses suggests that these properties were transferred from municipal to “republican” ownership in May 2023.
This occurred during a period when the inner circle of “gauleiter” Sergey Aksyonov was orchestrating both the “Golden Sands” scheme on the Yevpatoria coast and the replacement of the city’s “head of administration.”
The properties along the Gorky embankment include the historic “Carmen Dacha,” while the site on Duvanovska Street features the historic “Primorskaya Sanatorium” building. Both locations are currently in commercial use, whereas the site on Simferopolska Street consists of a beach area along with associated utility structures.
Prior to the occupation, all these facilities were operated by the city-owned sanatorium “Primorsky.” We have previously written about the occupiers’ plans to sell them off to “the right hands” though, in the past, they were less coy, openly discussing the sale of the sanatorium itself rather than referring to them vaguely as “property complexes.”
We have also noted that while the occupiers are attempting to offload “Primorsky” as “republican property,” a private entity “Children’s Sanatorium ‘Primorsky'” is “registered” at the same address. This entity is linked to Ekaterina Rudneva, the St. Petersburg-based wife of Yevpatoria-based businessman Gleb Rudnev, and features Konstantin Moshkovsky, a man who serves as the perennial “director” across a number of their “firms.”
It is possible that this entire scheme is simply an attempt by these collaborators to acquire the remnants of “Primorsky” for themselves; however, it is more likely that the “republican” gauleiters have already handpicked a “suitable investor”, a figure who is set to make an appearance in this tragicomedy soon.
