Alisher Usmanov has been considered the richest man in Russia for many years. His fortune, according to various sources, is estimated at 18-20 billion US dollars. He owns shares in many Russian high-tech companies, including Euroset and Megafon. I wonder what conditions the famous entrepreneur lives in?
Hall of the huge mansion of Alisher Usmanov
Recently, the network exploded with a video of Alisher Usmanov’s luxurious mansion in Tashkent.
A huge house was built in European style and is decorated with ancient national ornaments, which were used mainly in the buildings of ancient Bukhara.
Spacious living room with fireplace in the house of Alisher Usmanov
The mansion has 6 bedrooms and 10 reception rooms. The entire house is furnished with expensive furniture, and paintings by iconic artists hang on the walls.
One of the luxurious bedrooms in the house of Alisher Usmanov
Every detail in the house - from an expensive sofa to a small decorative box - simply screams of luxury. For example, on the ceiling of one of the rooms, which is made in the national style - wood carvings - you can see the initials of a Russian billionaire.
Another living room in the house of Alisher Usmanov
The house also has a huge swimming pool, a jacuzzi, a massage room - everything you need for a luxurious life.
Forbes magazine has compiled a list of the most expensive London real estate owned by Russians. On the first line is the mansion of the most famous Russian in England (of course, after Sergei Skripal) - Roman Abramovich. The house he bought for £90 million in 2011 is now valued at almost twice as much - £170 million. He also owns an apartment and a parking space for £85,000.
Our compatriots owned houses in which many prominent personalities lived: American tycoon Jean Paul Getty, Guy Ritchie and Madonna, writer Bernard Shaw. Because Foggy Albion More than once it became a refuge for disgraced Russian oligarchs; dubious millions were often invested in London real estate. For example, one of the most expensive estates in the country - Park Place with an area of 80 hectares with a 300-year-old estate was bought by the ex-head of the Bank of Moscow Andrei Borodin in 2011.
Almost all the real estate of Russian oligarchs has increased significantly in price since the moment of purchase. The most profitable investment was the purchase of a house by Olga Slutsker and her ex-husband for 6 million pounds in 2000. After the divorce, the property went to Olga, and now its price is at least 70 million pounds.
Roman Abramovich Cost of the mansion: £170 million The mansion is located on the famous “billionaires' street” of Kensington Palace Gardens. In 2014, the house was ranked 9th among the most expensive mansions in the world according to CompareCamp.
Apartment cost: £30 million In addition, the owner of Chelsea owns an apartment with an area of 557 square meters with panoramic view to the Thames. The building houses Abramovich's £85,000 parking space.
Andrey Guryev Cost of the mansion: £150 million The Witanhurst estate was built at the beginning of the 20th century, its area is about 8,000 square meters, which makes it the second largest palace in London after Buckingham.
Penthouse cost: £60 million Senator Guryev also owns a five-story penthouse in a 181-meter skyscraper. According to The Guardian, the oligarch planned to place an Orthodox chapel in the apartment.
Andrei Borodin Cost of the mansion: £150 million In 2016, the Tver court decided that one of the most expensive houses in Great Britain was bought with money illegally withdrawn from the Bank of Moscow by its then head, Andrei Borodin.
Cost of the mansion: £105 million He also owns a mansion in central London, built in 1827. In this building, Goncharenko plans to open a club with paid membership, a spa, a hotel and two restaurants.
Cost of the mansion: £25 million Another Goncharenko property included in the Forbes list is a mansion from 1825. He bought it in 2014, and three years later activists took it over and planned to turn it into a shelter for the homeless.
Olga Slutsker Cost of the mansion: £70 million Not only Joseph Bezos’ wife had a successful divorce. The owner of World Class clubs Olga Slutsker received a mansion in London after her divorce from businessman Vladimir Slutsker.
Alexander Lebedev Cost of the mansion: £20 million Elena Perminova's husband Alexander Lebedev bought the Stud House estate in 2007 for $16 million. Now his son Evgeniy lives in the house, actively leading a social life in London.
Alisher Usmanov Cost of the mansion: £60 million Alisher Usmanov bought the mansion from 1840 from the former emir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani.
Cost of the mansion: £50 million Another mansion of the owner of the Mail Group in Surrey previously belonged to one of the most famous tycoons in the world - Jean Paul Getty.
Mikhail Fridman Cost of the mansion: £65 million The owner of a 15-billion-dollar fortune plans to spend 80 million pounds on the reconstruction of a 19th-century mansion. The Victorian estate Athlone House is located next to Hampstead Heath Park.
Igor Shuvalov Apartment cost: £10 million Former Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov owns a 500-meter apartment near the Palace of Westminster. The famous playwright Bernard Shaw lived in this house and was also the headquarters of the British intelligence service MI6.
On the site of the former building of the Kommersant publishing house, Vrubel 4 CJSC (the name coincides with the address of the house) will build a residential complex with an underground parking lot, said two brokers who worked with him and an employee of the Moscow mayor’s office. According to the latter, at the end of November the company received a certificate of approval of the architectural and urban planning solution for this project. Yesterday part of the building was demolished.
Vrubel 4 is now the owner of the building that was occupied by Kommersant, a representative of Moskomstroyinvest said. This company, according to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, was founded by the owner of the publishing house Alisher Usmanov. His representative declined to comment.
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On the street Vrubel, a multifunctional complex of 30,000 square meters will be built. m, which will include offices (including the publishing house itself) and housing, two people close to Kommersant said in 2015. Now, apparently, they have decided to abandon offices. The website of the Sibzarubezhstroy company, which developed the project concept, only talks about a residential complex with an underground parking lot with total area 32,754 sq. m.
A representative of Kommersant refused to comment on plans to return the publishing house to its original location. Employees at the Publishing House told Vedomosti that various options are being discussed, but there is no final decision. Now the editorial office, together with Usmanov’s other companies, is located in the Profiko business center on Rublevskoye Shosse.
On Vrubel, 4, it is logical to build a residential complex, not offices, says managing partner of Metrium, Maria Litinetskaya. “The site is located in the prestigious Sokol district with convenient access to Leningradsky Prospekt,” she says. Due to its proximity to the center and abundance of green spaces, the Sokol area has been extremely popular among home buyers for several decades, adds Litinetskaya.
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In addition, the economic return from the sale of apartments today is much higher than from the sale of offices, adds Irina Dobrokhotova, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Best-Novostroy. Investments in construction residential complex on the site of the former Kommersant building, she estimates it at 1.7 billion rubles, while the minimum revenue from the sale of apartments in a business class facility will be 6.4 billion rubles.
“The initial average price in such a project can be 250,000 rubles. for 1 sq. m", and by the end of construction it can increase to 300,000 rubles. for 1 sq. m in ordinary apartments and up to 400,000 rubles. for 1 sq. m in views (penthouses), says leading CIAN analyst Alexander Pypin. In his opinion, if there are about 400 apartments in the complex, the company can fully sell them in three years - but with a competent pricing policy. The fact is that in the nearby Marshal complex on the street. Marshal Rybalko still has about 250 apartments and apartments for sale, he explains.
