As it follows from social networks, since September in occupied Yevpatoria the “Chaika” sanatorium, located in Zaozerne, has been closing, and allegedly “vacationers’ vouchers are being revoked, employees are being fired.”
It is reported that allegedly “they are urgently closing Chaika because the medical center’s license is being revoked. And they are going to put it up for auction.” Let us recall that the occupiers announced the criminal “nationalization” of the structure “International Children’s Medical Center “Chaika” back in October 2022, declaring some “foreign owners”, but did not specify the personalities of the “former owners” for this sanatorium.
The aggressor-controlled “media”declared that allegedly “Chaika” with its lucrative coastal territory, “belonged to a number of Ukrainian companies controlled by the Kyiv jewelry factory of jewelry magnate Sergei Tsupko”, without providing any “evidence”, however.
In 2023, we wrote, citing Ukrainian journalists, that Sergei Tsupko probably has a “Russian identification code”, and also until September 9, 2022 was the “founder” of the Crimean “firm” “Zhemchuzhina Krymu” “re-registered” by the occupiers since January 2015, with a quarter share of the “enterprise”. However, the same journalists then posted refutations from Tsupko, which stated that allegedly “Zhemchuzhina Krymu” (“Pearl of Crimea”) was “founded in 1999 by the Crimean Republican Society of Hunters and Fishermen”.
Tsupko stated that in 2022, precisely when the collaborators began the criminal “nationalization”, “with the actual owners of the Crimean company, its management managed to reach an agreement so that Sergei Tsupko would be removed from the founders.”
Be that as it may, the “general director” of the occupier-controlled “Chaika” until 2022 was Yevpatorian Yuriy Golovach, and this structure not only closely cooperated with the occupiers, but in 2019 was “nominated” by them in Yevpatoria for the “title” of “Best Employer”.
In Ukrainian registers, the “Chaika” sanatorium, with the same address, is registered to more than a dozen companies, mainly from Vasilkov and Kyiv, with director Alexander Yevtushenko.
After the “nationalization” of 2022, the “temporary managers” at “Chaika” changed, and now a certain Maria Kurbatskaya from the Sverdlovsk region is declared in this role, and the “beneficiaries” are hidden in the Krasnodar “Registrar KRC”, associated with the aggressor’s bank “VTB”.
Despite the “constant support measures” from the same 2022 from the illegal “Crimean State Fund for Entrepreneurship Support”, it follows from the “registries” of the occupiers that the number of “contracts” for “organized services for Russian tourists”, which were “concluded” with “Chaika” by the regional “branches of the social development fund” of the aggressor, in 2025 decreased to ten, compared with seventeen in 2024.
Reasons for the current outcome of the situation with “Chaika” occupiers “in the public plane” may be in a squabble over this object, which, with the current financial policy of “tightening belts”, is becoming “clearly unprofitable”. Who will control the long-suffering Yevpatoria sanatorium in the future – further events will show.
