Ecologist Suren Ghazaryan talks about “Putin’s palace”, Tkachev’s dacha and the Olympic construction site. Ecologist Suren Ghazaryan – about “Putin’s palace”, Tkachev’s dacha and the Olympic construction site Tkachev’s dacha blue bay on the map

The closed area in the Vyselkovsky district of Kuban near the village of Pervomaisky is heaven on earth, but few people know about it. According to residents of Pervomaisky, Kuban ex-governor and now Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev, along with his brother, State Duma deputy Alexei Tkachev, visit here. The publication yuga.ru, well-known in Kuban, considers this place “one of the alleged personal residences of Alexander Tkachev.” According to our data, this was officially called a recreation center for employees of Agrokompleks CJSC.

The total area of ​​the base is about 500 hectares. Squirrels, hares and other living creatures run around right under your feet. There are also decorative geese, “standing high on their feet,” as the builders who worked on the Tkachev hacienda described them. In addition to geese, six peacocks, white and black swans delight the eye. In order for swans, ducks and geese to live like humans, wooden houses with reed roofs were built on the local pond.

Two cows graze on the heavenly lands, but, again, they are special - hornless. They were brought from Holland. Two ponies and two trained dancing horses are always ready to amuse the soul of the former governor. A hippodrome has been built nearby, where horse races are held periodically. Several times local horses competed with visitors; evil tongues call them “Kadyrov’s”. “Tkachev’s” horses invariably and politically correct lose to “Kadyrov’s”.

Among other entertainments of the local nobility is shooting, for which two firing ranges were built. They shoot like adults, in the sense that they don’t use traumatic guns or small guns. At the entrance to the base there are two tall spruce trees, they were brought from Germany. There are pine trees, cherries brought from Italy, and rose alleys. They look especially beautiful against the backdrop of artificial waterfalls. All these landscape wonders were designed and implemented by Krasnodar LLC Tandem-South Design.

You can isolate yourself from the bustle of the world here for a long time, since the base has its own electrical substation and water tower.

There is only one drawback in the Kuban paradise: the weather does not obey the minister, sometimes pouring rain and falling with snow. For this case, two houses were built, on different banks of the pond. And if Alexander and Alexey Tkachev visit that wonderful place, then I wonder for whom the houses are intended. The mansions were built by the Kuban company Kapitel. Remember the famous “Tkachev’s dacha” on the Black Sea? Looking ahead, I’ll note: when environmentalists damaged the fence there, the company Kapitel-2 was listed as the victim.

The base near Pervomaisky is served by about a hundred people who ride around the territory on adult tricycles. Senior guards use sports bikes. Moreover, they make a detour around the base every 30 minutes. Ordinary security guards travel on electric scooters.

This entire gigantic economy is maintained not only for recreation, but also for their daily bread. There, for example, there are three swimming pools: a large one, a smaller one and the smallest one. Sturgeon is bred in the first pool, trout is bred in the second. At the base there are vineyards, greenhouses, a barn, and a sheep pen. The entire farm is managed by an authoritative person, whom the staff has given the nickname Beard. Periodically, Beard meets a helicopter with milk, fruits, vegetables, and meat. This happens all year round - it’s not for nothing that four helipads were built on the territory. Alexander Tkachev also descends from the sky on a rotorcraft.

Helicopter and yachts

Alexander Tkachev himself came up with the initiative to buy a helicopter in January 2013, and deputies of the regional Legislative Assembly agreed, which is reflected in their corresponding resolution. As indicated on the government procurement website, the order price was 11 million 88 thousand euros. According to the technical specifications, the helicopter has a luxurious carpet, leather-trimmed chairs, a mobile table and a mount for a tablet computer. Kuban Minister of Health Elena Redko spoke honestly and directly on the website of the Kuban Ministry of Health: “This is necessary so that doctors can simultaneously transport several patients from places of mass destruction, as well as send a team of several specialists for on-site consultation.”

In this case, the $25 million Renegade yacht was presumably intended for Kuban teachers. True, the largest portal about yachts Superyachtfan.com, when mentioning this price, for some reason indicates Alexandra Tkacheva as the former owner. This floating luxury, sailing under the flag of the Cayman Islands, is designed for 10 guests and 8 crew members. In 2004, Novaya Gazeta Kuban wrote about this, attaching Tkachev’s decree No. 381/1-r dated 02/01/2004. According to the document, the lessor of the yacht was the Kuban Financial Company, and the monthly rental cost was 880 thousand rubles.

Food for thought: in 2004-2006, a certain Alexander Tkachev was officially listed on the list of affiliated persons of the Krasnodar Krayinvestbank. At the same time, Krayinvestbank was the founder of the same “Kuban Financial Company”, which acted as the lessor of the yacht. It turns out that the regional leadership paid itself budget money for renting a yacht?

Now Renegade has been sold, but there was also a 24-meter yacht Destiny. Its owner was Kuban Cruise LLC, where one of the shareholders was Zhanna Arefieva. In the 90s, this lady was a co-owner of the Exim company, where Alexander Remezkov, the former Kuban vice-governor and now a State Duma deputy from United Russia, worked as the financial director. The yacht Destiny has often been seen in the port of Sochi, where the yachts of the President and Prime Minister of Russia are moored. Now it is being sold by private individuals for 3 million 600 thousand euros.

Cottages and houses

Compared to the “Pervomayskaya” residence, the Black Sea dacha is a mere trifle: a plot of about a hectare. It was rented in favor of Alexander Tkachev, as evidenced by an extract from the Unified State Register of Rights to Real Estate. The residence is located near the village of Bzhid, Tuapse district. The local complex of elite mansions is 70% owned by the same Agrocomplex. In any case, that’s what Tkachev himself said in 2012 at a meeting with bloggers. There is a world famous landmark here - the iron fence. In addition to the dacha, he fences off a large area of ​​public forest, and it was this that was painted and slightly opened by ecologists Suren Ghazaryan and Evgeniy Vitishko in 2010. They were then given three years in a penal colony for these drawings.

Division of land, kickbacks, millions - this dirt does not stick to Minister Tkachev. In these places, a hectare of land, according to the cadastre, costs more than 100 million rubles. But a hectare of the fenced beach of his residence, as indicated on the State Register website, is valued at only one ruble. Miracle.

Alas, from the peace of the Black Sea, Alexander Tkachev was forced every now and then to return to the everyday bustle. The most acute problem in Kuban is the lack of kindergartens, but due to forgetfulness, Tkachev never said that he himself lives on the site of the former kindergarten. In 2001, the Krasnodar mayor's office transferred a plot of almost 20 acres with the building of a kindergarten for the construction of a residential building. In Resolution No. 13-11 dated August 20, 2001, the object was valued at a ridiculous amount - 75,600 rubles. But this is a site in the very center of the city, on Komsomolskaya Street, next to Kraiinvestbank and the building of the regional FSB Directorate.

The site and the building were leased to the Delta-Stroy company from the village of Vyselki, where Tkachev is from. The firm, in turn, hired a construction company. According to the acceptance certificate, the cost of the built house was 9 million 300 thousand rubles. A couple of months later, the Delta-Stroy company sold the house to the general director of the Agrocomplex company, Alexei Nikolaevich Tkachev, the brother of the then governor Tkachev. Moreover, she sold it for 3 million 640 thousand rubles, that is, three times cheaper, as stated in the sale and purchase agreement dated May 15, 2003.

Daughter and son-in-law

Having barely graduated from the Kuban Agrarian University, the daughter of the minister (at that time the governor) Tanya Batalova, according to the SPARK-Interfax system, became the owner of 52% of the shares of the Intercomplex company. This company built the largest shopping center “Gallery Krasnodar”. The founder of Intercomplex, according to the same SPARK, was her talented husband Roman Batalov.

At the age of 23, Roman Batalov became a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the region, the first deputy chairman of the Committee on Property and Land Relations. He started with small projects like Krasnodargorgaz, then grew to the Kuban Development Group company, which established 60 subsidiaries, mainly construction ones. Since May 2015, Kuban Development Group has a new president, and the founder is a certain Basilon Holdings Inc.

Only the power of talent can explain the fact that Batalov joined the board of directors of the Sochi-Park entertainment complex, built for the Olympics. Batalov is also on the board of directors of Agrocomplex, but his main project, as I understand it, is different. In the Sochi village of Krasnaya Polyana they are going to open a gambling zone. It is planned to be developed on the territory of the “Mountain Carousel” - a complex of ski slopes, restaurants and hotels. At the end of 2014, his shares were acquired by the Omega Center enterprise, owned by the administration of the Krasnodar region. And last October, “Mountain Carousel” was suddenly bought by the unknown company “Resort Plus” for 35 billion rubles. It turned out that Resort Plus LLC was registered shortly before the purchase. And its owner, according to SPARK-Interfax, is Business Resort LLC. Moreover, the director of the Business Resort is Vadim Trukshin, who is on the board of directors of Sochi Park and is now on the list of affiliates.

Niece, goddaughter and spouse

Minister Tkachev’s niece, Anastasia, in 2007, while a student, through her representative began to buy land plots in the Dinsky district of Kuban within the boundaries of ZAO Niva, a former local collective farm. According to the purchase and sale agreement dated December 27, 2007, Anastasia Alekseevna Tkacheva, through her representative, bought a plot of 2,415,618 square meters. m. This, for clarity, is 338 football fields. But the governor’s niece paid only 2 million 500 thousand rubles, which at that time was equal to the cost of a two-room apartment in Krasnodar.

Soon she exchanged this plot, and according to the exchange agreement, its cadastral value was 21 million 483 thousand rubles, that is, 10 times more expensive than the purchase price. Under the same agreement, Anastasia also transferred another plot with an area of ​​about 2 million square meters and a cost of more than 17 million rubles, so, frankly speaking, things were going well for the Krasnodar student.

Among other things, Anastasia also turned out to be a co-owner of the Southern Pipe Plant and the Pipe Insulation Plant. And Tkachev’s niece also owned almost a quarter of the shares of the largest poultry farm in the Southern Federal District, Yugptitseprom. Since last year, she has not officially been a co-owner of the poultry farm. But the family business did not suffer from this: in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, Anastasia’s husband, Kirill Crattli, among other things, is listed as the general director of MirTech-Kuban LLC and Agroprime LLC, which conduct wholesale trade in construction and agricultural equipment.

The goddaughter of the Minister of Agriculture, Elena Firstkova, is also an extremely successful businesswoman. Her father Sergei Firstkov, a former shareholder of Agrocomplex, has been heading Tkachev’s native Vyselkovsky district of Kuban for 11 years. Elena Firstkova appeared in business as director of the construction company Inkomkapitallgroup. Further, according to numerous media reports, she noted herself as a co-owner and director of more than two dozen companies included in the Kuban Development Group holding, which was associated with Tkachev’s son-in-law Batalov (we’ll say more about this company). And now, according to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, Elena is listed as a director or co-owner of more than a dozen companies related to construction, investment and catering. For example, opposite the administration of the Krasnodar region there is a Bellini restaurant - next to the monument to commander Zhukov and the memorial arch. Elena is listed as the general director there.

Olga Tkacheva, the minister’s wife, also keeps up with the fast-moving times. According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, it fully owns Chateau de Talue LLC, which nurtures elite grape varieties near Gelendzhik. The company's authorized capital is RUB 23.338 million. Of the entire Tkachev business cohort, Olga Ivanovna is the least public figure, although in 2012 she was among the ten richest governor’s wives in Russia, according to Slon.ru

JSC "Agrokompleks" in Vyselki

According to the business certificate we received, in 2014 the revenue of Agrocomplex amounted to 26 billion 538 million 824 thousand rubles. That is 5 billion more than in the previous year. In total, during Tkachev’s governorship, the company’s revenue increased 33 times. The most effective manager was Tkachev’s dad, the late Nikolai Ivanovich. It was he who headed the Vyselkovsky feed mill in the late 80s. Then the head of the local enterprise “Myasoprom” left his post, which suddenly wanted to merge with a feed mill. This “merger” was called “Agrocomplex”, and then privatization arrived.

Soon, Kuban farms and enterprises suddenly began to join the Agrocomplex. In Vyselki, for example, there was a sugar factory “Crystal” of the Moscow company “Russian Sugar”. In 2005, the Vyselkovsky District Court banned him from working because, as it turned out, the plant violated the environment. The plant's managers were slightly indignant, wrote a couple of letters to Putin and, without waiting for a reaction, sold the enterprise to Agrokompleks.

Then there were JSC named after. Chernyakhovsky, JSC named after. Kalinina, farm "Rassvet". One after another they went bankrupt, joyfully refusing competition and transferring themselves to Agrocomplex. As for the current shareholders, Alexander Tkachev, of course, is not among them, because the law does not allow it.

Is there land? What if I find it?

Vyselki, as the homeland of the Tkachevs, used to be the most popular Kuban village. But when the Tsapkov gang simultaneously killed 12 people in the village of Kushchevskaya, Kushchevka thundered throughout Russia.

Before the massacre, the Tsapki were known in the region as philanthropists and athletes. They also supported the Artex-Agro football team. Its main striking force was the football players from Vyselki. It’s hard to say why the Tsapkas liked the Vyselkovites, but the team fought for the Governor’s Cup. At that time, Tkachev, having forgotten KVN, was fond of football.

The Tsapkov story ended with their imprisonment. And the Sever Kuban group of companies that belonged to them (40,000 hectares of land) was transferred to Agrocomplex in the summer of 2014. As stated on the website of Agrokompleks itself, Sever Kuban owed loans to Rosselkhozbank, and Agrokompleks paid off the debts, taking the debtor’s assets for itself.

Agrokompleks does not disclose the composition of shareholders. As for the founders, according to the business certificate, 29% of them are nine Kuban agricultural enterprises, including Niva CJSC (Anastasia Tkacheva bought land within the boundaries of this CJSC; coincidence?). The remaining 66% is described as “other,” but Tkachev’s son-in-law Roman Batalov is listed first on the list of the board of directors. The wife of the head of the Vyselkovsky district, Nina Firstkova, is also on this list.

In 2014, while the country was chanting “Crimea is ours!” in unison, the Agrokompleks company bought five farms from the Wimm-Bill-Dann company: Atamanskoe, Niva, Trud, For Peace and labor", "Testaments of Ilyich". As a result, Agrocomplex has 30 thousand more hectares.

Around the same time, Agrocomplex bought more than a dozen farms in the Kuban, Stavropol Territory, and also in the Rostov Region from Valinor Group. The owner of Valinor, Kirill Podolsky, was wondering who to sell his troubled asset to. The head of one very large bank strongly recommended Tkachev. As a result, Agrocomplex expanded by another 170 thousand hectares. It turns out that in 2014 alone, Agrocomplex acquired two and a half times more land - that is, 450 thousand hectares. Now it is one of the five largest latifundias in the country.

In 2015, Agrokompleks also did not waste time, purchasing Kuban Bacon LLC. Before this, according to Interfax, this enterprise almost entirely belonged to the daughter of Alexander Tkachev, Tatyana Batalova. The Federal Antimonopoly Service did not find any violations in the transaction.

“Due to the inscriptions, the fence, 104 m long and 2.5 m wide, has lost its aesthetic qualities and can no longer be used as a fence with a light gray color on the front side and khaki color on the back side.”

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© Gazeta.Ru, 06.20.2012, Photo: via club-rf.ru, gazaryan-suren

The court upheld the integrity of the fence

Svetlana Bocharova, Olga Kuzmenkova, Sergei Smirnov

Krasnodar Yabloko members Suren Gaziaryan and Evgeny Vitishko were convicted in the case of damaging the fence of an elite mansion, allegedly belonging to the governor of the Krasnodar Territory Alexander Tkachev. For signs like “This is our forest,” both will not be able to leave their homes at night for three years. The authorities warned the activists before the Olympics, the lawyer interprets the verdict.

Lyubov Chizhova

[…] Immediately after the verdict was pronounced, Suren Ghazaryan told RS that, in his opinion, the verdict came to the court “from above”:

It took the judge 20 minutes to read the verdict. She could have done this yesterday, since it is obvious that he was ready yesterday. How do I rate it? Under the current conditions, I end up in slavery, although I was not deprived of my freedom. The way the trial went is simply a mockery of justice. We had no way to defend ourselves. We were simply thrown into court, the trial went on and on, and then, half an hour later, the court debates, and by the evening, please, it was all over.

- In your opinion, who refused to put pressure on the court?

Obviously, Governor Tkachev himself. Because they specifically emphasize there, even in the verdict, that our actions were caused by hooligan motives - allegedly, while in the forest, we challenged public morality, generally accepted moral standards, and wrote bad inscriptions.

- How can the sentence passed on you affect your future environmental activities?

A suspended sentence means that if, for example, I am detained even on an administrative matter, then the term can turn into a real one. And I'll go to jail.

The lawyer of Suren Ghazaryan and Evgeny Vetishko, Marina Dubrovina, said that the defense intends to appeal the verdict passed by the Tuapse court.

Suren Ghazaryan and Yevgeny Vetishko were accused of “causing significant damage to property for hooligan reasons.” Under this article they faced up to five years in prison. In November last year, environmentalists, as part of an environmental inspection in the Tuapse region, dismantled one of the sections of the fence around the recreation center of Agrocomplex CJSC. They claimed that behind the JSC sign was hiding another residence of the Governor of the Krasnodar Territory, Alexander Tkachev. The fencing of this territory, which belongs to the State Forest Fund, is, according to environmentalists, illegal. During the construction of the governor's dacha, dozens of Red Book trees were cut down. Environmentalists wrote the slogan “This is our forest” on the fence.

In March 2012, Ghazaryan and his lawyer Viktor Dutlov, while inspecting the so-called “governor’s dacha” near Tuapse to prepare for the trial, were detained by local private security officers. Suren Ghazaryan was beaten, his personal belongings were taken from him and he was sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest.

The head of the Russian branch of Greenpeace in Russia, Ivan Blokov, extremely negatively evaluates the guilty verdict against Suren Ghazaryan and Evgeny Vetishko and recalls that environmentalists were punished for their professional activities.

In my opinion, this court decision is an indicator of how crookedly our judicial and legal system works, related to both environmental protection and the real rights of people. What happened to Suren Ghazaryan is a theater of the absurd. A man was convicted of making inscriptions on a legally non-existent object. That is, instead of protecting the environment and fighting unauthorized construction, the court condemns the person who caused minimal damage to the unauthorized construction. At the same time, the system that protects those in power works well, believes the head of the Russian branch of Greenpeace, Ivan Blokov.

Activist of the Ecological Watch for the North Caucasus Olga Noskovets is confident that the sentence imposed on Suren Gazaryan and Evgeniy Vetishko will not prevent Krasnodar environmentalists from continuing to fight against illegal development of the Black Sea coast. The so-called dacha of Alexander Tkachev will also not go unnoticed by environmentalists.

She reminds us that the so-called dacha of Alexander Tkachev has already been practically built. It is located on the vast territory of an agricultural complex, which environmentalists call the Tkachev family business, and is a cultural and recreational complex consisting of several cottages. Environmentalists visited there quite recently - everything is picturesque Blue Bay is practically inaccessible, a huge concrete fence emerges from the rock into the sea; it blocks access not only to the sea, but also to the forest. All this outrages environmentalists, who remind us that, by law, both the sea and the forest in Russia are still public places.

Olga Noskovets says that this problem worries not only a handful of ecologists, but many residents of the Krasnodar Territory, based on whose complaint Gazaryan and Vetishko in March carried out an inspection of what they believed was an illegally built facility. And such facilities, fenced with fences, are now being actively built by Russian officials of various ranks along the entire Black Sea coast. Original of this material
© gazaryan-suren, 06/21/2012

Expert on Tkachev's dacha: cattle should be inside the fence, not outside

At yesterday's trial in the case of damage to the fence around Tkachev's residence, we were able to interrogate only one witness for the defense - the director of the Federal State Institution "Forest Protection Center of the Krasnodar Territory", Candidate of Biological Sciences Valery Ivanovich Shchurov.

Question: Valery Ivanovich, the lease agreement with which you previously became acquainted was announced here. Clause 3.5 states that “the tenant does not have the right to prevent citizens from accessing the leased forest plot; the plot can be fenced only in cases provided for by the Forest Code of the Russian Federation.” Are there such cases in the Dzhubga forestry, are there areas there to which citizens have limited access?

Shchurov's answer: As far as I understand, the lease agreement for this site was concluded for recreational purposes. In that case, the answer to this question is no.

But if this area was provided for agricultural use and would involve grazing cattle, then it should be fenced so that this cattle would not scatter and feed in those forests where it is not allowed to feed.

There is only one clear indication of the construction of a fence in modern forest legislation - grazing. Moreover, the cattle should be inside the fence, and not outside, so that they do not wander off. There are some types of breeds that cannot be kept without a shepherd or without a fence. It is specifically written about them in the Forest Code - these are goats, based on their biological characteristics, that they actually cause harm.

Judge Galina Avdzhi (interrupts): Thank you…

Alexander Tkachev recognized the residence as a recreation center for Agrocomplex workers

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© "Sochi 24", 01/23/2012, Governor Tkachev: a case of so-called lies, Illustrations: via "Sochi 24"

On January 13, the head of the administration of the Krasnodar region, Alexander Tkachev, held a meeting with “Kuban bloggers.”

During the meeting, the governor finally admitted that he had something to do with his residence on the Black Sea, to which he had previously denied belonging. [...]

[Krasnodar.ru, 01/13/2012, “Alexander Tkachev met with bloggers and told them about his “residence” on the coast, the renewal of power and what will happen in Kuban after the Olympics”:
– Yes, I have a “residence” - in Inal Bay. It may not be the most iconic place, of course - there is an overhanging rock and several dry trees. They started building it in the late 90s. And then it took a long time to complete it. 70 percent is property "Agrocomplex" where I worked, - said Tkachev. – And there is not a penny of budget funds there! Now employees of the enterprise, which employs more than 10 thousand people, rest in that “residence”. - Insert K.ru]

“During our close observation of Tkachev’s residence, we did not notice happy machine operators, milkmaids or agronomists swimming in the sea there,” Suren Ghazaryan, a member of the Environmental Watch for the North Caucasus, comments on the governor’s statement. - We came across only policemen, private security guards and people silently swarming in the ground. Perhaps the latter were employees of Agrocomplex CJSC undergoing occupational therapy.”

Moreover, the ecologist received extracts from Rosreestr, which indicate that there are no Agrocomplex lands on the territory of the residence.

Land plots are owned by lease: Alexander Nikolaevich Tkachev himself, his probable relative Sergei Ivanovich Storozhenko, as well as Elena Vladimirovna Krivneva, born in 1975. There are no fences between the Tkachev and Storozhenko sections; they have a common swimming pool.

Finally, the beach, valued by Rosreestr at 1 ruble, is rented by Otdykh LLC, whose founders are the same Storozhenko and Krivneva. More than 5 hectares of forest fund and part of the coast were seized illegally.

Rossrest also reports that over the past year, to Tkachev’s plot of 10 acres (cadastral number 23:33:0102001:18), which he indicated in the declaration for 2010 and which is located in the center of the residence, a plot of about a hectare was added (number 23 :33:0102001:72).

“Tkachev received it in April 2011. Until that time, the site belonged to public lands, that is, it was ownerless, although a large boathouse and many other premises had been built there several years ago. Probably no one paid the rent to the state,” says Ghazaryan.

Now this site is leased from the governor. Information about this should appear in the declaration for 2011.

[gazaryan-suren, 04/06/2012, “30 pieces of silver for Governor Tkachev”: Alexander Nikolaevich declared information about the personal lease of two plots located behind this fence. This is plot 23:33:0102001:18 with an area of ​​999 square meters. meters, which was in his declaration for 2010 and Photo report: Alexander Tkachev’s dacha on the Black Sea coast

Tkachev's dacha has grown with new plots

Governor Tkachev's dacha was illegally expanded with new plots. Governor Tkachev grabbed another piece of territory - for “his dacha” - photo

A new black page has been written in the history of lawlessness happening at the facility built for the recreation of the Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Alexander Tkachev and his family in the Blue Bay (village of Bzhid, Tuapse district) - the so-called “Tkachev’s dacha”.

On July 22, 2014, activists of the Environmental Watch for the North Caucasus conducted another public environmental inspection near the dacha. This inspection revealed why another section of the forest fund and the Black Sea coastline was attached to it.

The fact of fencing a forest plot on the Black Sea coast with an area of ​​about one hectare with a new fence, which is not included in the territory leased by Agrocomplex CJSC or other organizations affiliated with the Kuban governor, was revealed by EcoWakhta activists in early May of this year. In response to EWSK's appeals regarding this fact, officials of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Krasnodar Territory and the Department of Rosprirodnadzor for the Southern Federal District reported that there was allegedly no fence and that this territory was allegedly part of a forest plot previously leased by Agrokompleks CJSC. Another visit to Tkachev’s dacha, carried out in June 2014, showed that large-scale construction had begun on the captured site, during which the coastal waters of the Black Sea were being backfilled.

Tkachev's dacha
"Thorn" goes along the entire perimeter of the dacha

The rest of the area is covered with steelgrid - a metal network, supposedly to strengthen the slopes

At the time of the last inspection, the new construction at Tkachev’s dacha was already completed. The captured section of the coast, which until recently was an area of ​​undisturbed wilderness, has been turned into a stadium. A water park and a volleyball court were also built on it. On the side of Inal Bay, on the border of the occupied area, a concrete fence has grown, from which a jetty with a wooden fence installed on top extends into the sea. To completely protect this section of the coast from ordinary Russian citizens, a security booth with a guard on duty around the clock was also built on the fence line. At the same time, on the steep coastal slope adjacent to the booth, the initially installed fence was dismantled. Instead of a fence, the slope is completely covered with steelgrid - an “anti-erosion” metal mesh reinforced with rings of steel cables. It is impossible to walk along a slope covered with such a net. Steelgrid is installed on slopes where there may be rockfalls, but the forested slope above Tkachev’s dacha is not considered rockfall-hazardous. The net was installed not against rockfalls, but against people. At the same time, on the upper gentle part of the slope, closed from the eyes of the guards, in addition to the steel grid, a fence made of fence and barbed wire is still installed. The “know-how” of covering the slope with steelgrid was introduced for the obvious purpose - so that the control authorities have a formal basis for asserting that “there is no continuous fence around the site.”

Scrap metal dump from Tkachev's dacha

In front of the newly built concrete fence on the seashore, a dump of metal structures thrown out from the territory of Tkachev’s dacha has been organized. And about a hundred meters from the new fence towards Inal Bay on the seaside slope, preparations have been made for the installation of another fence - metal bases for the posts are driven into the ground and concreted. So the seizure that took place in order to expand the territory of the dacha is obviously not the last.

All these facts indicate that the level of lawlessness happening under the cover of the governor of Kuban in Blue Bay is simply off the charts. As well as the level of contempt for respecting the rights of citizens to unhindered access to the shores of the Black Sea and forest lands, which are public property. All this became possible thanks to the cover-up and inaction of various control bodies, whose duty is to combat such violations of the law and the rights of citizens. However, the times of impunity for crimes committed by the “powers of this world” will sooner or later end. And Tkachev, sooner or later, will have to answer for the seizure of public lands, and for illegally built fences, and for the influence on the judicial authorities, as a result of which Ecological Watch activists Evgeniy Vitishko and Suren Ghazaryan were unjustly convicted “for damaging the fence.” One of whom is currently serving time in a colony, and the other was forced to go abroad.

[“Environmental watch in the North Caucasus”, 07/28/2014, “Censorship on the Kuban.Ru forum: the topic of land seizure at Tkachev’s dacha was blocked 4 hours after its appearance”: Today another incident occurred on the popular Kuban forum Kuban.Ru an act of censorship regarding a topic affecting the Governor of the Krasnodar Territory, Alexander Tkachev - the topic “Tkachev’s Dacha.” Continuation” was blocked, in which there was a discussion on the issue of the next seizure of land on the Black Sea coast at the summer residence of the head of the Kuban in Blue Bay. Also, the coordinator of the Environmental Watch for the North Caucasus, Andrei Rudomakha, who started this discussion, was banned from the forum.

The Kuban.Ru forum ceased to exist several years ago as an independent information resource and is currently controlled by the administration of the Krasnodar region through the Limited Liability Company “Special Advertising Technologies” (ORT LLC). - Insert K.ru]

Tkachev's dacha. Results. June 13th, 2011

Today we were able to document that “Tkachev’s dacha” on the Black Sea coast, near which I and my comrades were detained by the police at the end of February this year, actually belongs to the Kuban governor.

We got extract from the state real estate cadastre, from which it follows that Tkachev owns a plot of land located right in the center of this protected estate on the coast.

It is this plot of 999 sq. meters and a mansion located on it with an area of ​​388 square meters. m are mentioned in Tkachev’s declaration for 2011. On the public cadastral map of Rosreestr, the Tkachev site belongs to the lands of specially protected territories and objects.

On February 28, the day after our detention and arrest, the director of a certain Otdykh LLC, Petr Kotov, stated: “Our Otdykh LLC rents a section of the beach for the purpose of its development and subsequent operation. There is no alleged “Tkachev’s dacha” on our territory...”

On March 1, the press service of the regional administration also denied information that environmentalists were detained at a cottage owned by the governor. However, it is now obvious that on February 27 we were detained just 50 meters from Tkachev’s mansion, which is now being renovated (photo by Evgeny Titov).

On May 29, we again conducted a public inspection of Tkachev’s dacha. It turned out that instead of the barbed wire fence that has surrounded the estate since 2006, they are rapidly erecting a new solid metal fence, along the top of which there will be exposed wires. The new fence surrounds twice as much forest as the old one.

According to the public map of Rosreestr, there are three plots of land located inside the fences in the protected area. Directly adjacent to Tkachev’s site is Sergei Storozhenko’s site, and a little further from the sea is Elena Krivneva’s site. Citizens Storozhenko and Krivneva are co-founders of the same Otdykh LLC, on whose territory, allegedly, “there is no Tkachev’s dacha”. However, most of the buildings hidden behind the fences are not located on these three small plots, but on state lands that are not assigned to specific individuals. This means that the buildings shown below were built illegally and the state did not receive a penny of rent for their placement.

"Nobody's" building on public lands

"No man's" building on a publicly accessible shoreline

Buildings without owners on public lands

Undoubtedly, saving on rent allows you to save significant personal funds necessary for Tkachev, Storozhenko and Krivneva to maintain the security guards of the Neva private security company. Which allegedly protect not their personal plots and illegally seized state lands, but the recreation center of Agrocomplex CJSC.

The construction of a fence on the territory of the forest fund, which violates the right of citizens to freely stay in forests as provided for in the Forest Code of the Russian Federation, is obviously illegal. But the summer resident-governor did not limit himself to building fences. Red-listed Pitsunda pines have been illegally cut down on the lands of the state forest fund, and new mansions are also being built illegally. At the same time, the Forestry Department of the Krasnodar Territory, in response to Vakhta’s appeal, indicates that the check did not reveal any facts of tree cutting in this area!
A marina with two breakwaters for the governor’s yachts was built illegally, without mandatory state environmental assessment. Fences have been illegally built on the seashore, blocking access to the publicly accessible shoreline provided for by the Water Code of the Russian Federation.

On June 8, Greenpeace Russia Director Sergei Tsyplenkov handed Dmitry Medvedev a letter from the Environmental Watch, calling on the President to take measures to eliminate violations of environmental legislation related to the construction of Tkachev’s dacha. Handing over the letter, Sergei said: “I will give one example: this is the Tuapse district of the Krasnodar Territory, Agrocomplex. It is clear that the interests of the governor are represented there. Maybe this explains why everything goes so easily for them there. By the way, the local population is sure that this is the dacha of one, I won’t mention his name.”

At that time, we did not yet have at our disposal a document confirming that the dacha on the Black Sea coast was personally owned by Alexander Nikolaevich Tkachev.

Environmentalist Viktor Chirikov, sentenced to fifteen days of arrest, is on a hunger strike in the special detention center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tuapse. On August 27, Chirikov and his comrades were detained in Golubaya Bay near the dacha of the governor of the Krasnodar Territory, Alexander Tkachev.

One of the participants in this action is a member of the board of the Ecological Watch for the North Caucasus Suren Ghazaryan told RS about what worries Black Sea ecologists: the construction of Olympic facilities and luxurious mansions in natural reserves.

– This is not the first time you have held protests at Tkachev’s dacha in the village of Bzhid. Why did ecologists become interested in it?

– Because we saw that there were violations of the Forestry and Water Codes there. There is a continuous fence around a large area of ​​forest with an area of ​​about 10 hectares, and on the Black Sea coast it continues, there is a concrete wall. People can't get through. And behind the fence, two or three hectares of Pitsunda pines, which are listed in the Red Book, have been cut down. All this was done without the projects, public discussions, or environmental assessment required by law. And this is a challenge for society: the governor allows himself to actually commit a criminal offense - cutting down Red Book species.

– When did this construction begin?

– Back in 2005. But they began to actively invade the forest fund and build walls at the end of 2009. At first the forest was fenced with barbed wire, then they began to build a permanent fence and walls on the shore.

– Does Tkachev himself live there?

- He happens there. They say he arrives by helicopter. Now 10 hectares have been captured, and according to an extract from the state land cadastre, Alexander Nikolaevich Tkachev owns 10 hectares. He has this plot of land on lease; he even indicated it in the declaration. And around this site, 10 hectares are simply illegally fenced off, such an estate.

– And you managed to get there?

– We swam on mattresses. They can’t fence off the entire sea. We swam for about an hour, and they couldn’t do anything with us. They were very angry, as eyewitnesses say.

And Viktor Chirikov tried to walk along the river, along the shore to the sea, but he was detained by police officers who are constantly on duty at this dacha. By law, there is a publicly accessible shoreline along the river. But the police and security guards of this dacha were waiting there. It's called "Alpha Neva". One of the guards ran up to Victor and hit him several times. After that, the police attacked Victor, knocked him down, handcuffed him and took him out. Then two more were detained. Everyone was taken to the village police station.

Less than a month ago, when Putin and Medvedev were vacationing in Sochi, the Olympia yacht, which belongs to Vladimir Putin, approached this palace. Someone visited the palace from this yacht

We arrived immediately; his wife and son were there, but they cordoned off the department and did not let anyone into the duty station. We had no way to talk to them. They were taken to Tuapse and tried on the same day; they gave 15 days to Chirikov and five days to two other people. That is, it was impossible to give them a lawyer or invite witnesses, the trial was closed. They were brought in, brought in and the court was closed. Two days later, the appeal court was held according to the same scenario, the lawyer was not allowed in, they told him that the trial would be tomorrow. He came in the morning and was told that the trial took place in the evening. That is, they made it so that neither the witnesses nor the lawyer could get to the trial. Now Victor will be in prison until September 10th. He went on a hunger strike.

– In February, you also tried to enter the territory of “Putin’s palace.” Then, after a statement by businessman Sergei Kolesnikov, Putin’s representatives disowned the building; it was allegedly resold. You were detained then in much the same way as Viktor Chirikov is now, and your personal belongings were taken away. Returned?

Photo from Suren Ghazaryan’s blog

- No, the things were not returned. It is simply impossible to find the ends where our statement ended up. Because the police say that they sent him to the investigative committee, the investigative committee says that they sent him to the military prosecutor's office, since FSO officers were involved there. And the military prosecutor's office is a closed structure, which is not clear how to contact. As a result, the things were not returned to us, and in general there is no progress in this case. And everything connected with this “palace” is tracked by people here. Less than a month ago, when Putin and Medvedev were vacationing in Sochi, the Olympia yacht, which belongs to Vladimir Putin, approached this palace. Someone visited the palace from this yacht, and then this same someone left the palace. We published this, but there were no refutations.

– Is the construction itself still ongoing?

- Finishing work is underway there. In June we went to the shore of this palace, swam demonstratively and saw that the elevator shaft there was being completed, and some kind of shore protection work was being carried out on the shore. I think it's almost finished.

– There is still a property on the coast known as the “patriarch’s dacha”, and, probably, quite a few such buildings belonging to people who would really not want anyone to know about this property of theirs. You even organized a “march along the stolen Black Sea.”

– It was an initiative of the Open Coast movement, but it ended in much the same way as most civil actions. After this march, people approached the gates of the “patriarch’s dacha” and then came to the beach and began to swim. The police arrived and arrested Kirill Goncharov from the youth party Yabloko and Sergei Menzheritsky, the leader of the Open Coast movement. They violated absolutely nothing, but they were written that they did not obey the legal requirements of the police officers. The authorities harshly suppress all these marches; they are afraid that their nests or estates will be taken away, or at least people will find out what is hidden behind these walls.

– Are there many such “nests”?

– About a dozen – that’s what we know.

– Tkachev’s dacha, “Putin’s palace” and “patriarch’s dacha.” What else?

– Patrushev’s dacha, Kazantsev’s dacha... We dealt only with those that are directly related to violations of environmental legislation. Where forests are cut down, valuable ecosystems suffer. We did not set political goals, our goal is to preserve the forest, preserve the sea. It all started with a campaign to fight Medvedev’s residence, which they wanted to build on Utrish right in the center of the reserve. Civil activists blocked this construction, and it has not yet begun, we are holding it back. An environmental post has now been organized there, people constantly live and watch. They have already started building a road there and cut down a lot of Red Book trees. And if they start building a residence there, it will be a disaster. Because this is the most valuable area of ​​the Bolshoy Utrish reserve, which was actually made a nature reserve, but this place was cut out for a residence. Near “Putin’s palace” about 6-7 hectares of Pitsunda pine have already been cut down, of which there is not much on the coast. And with their fence they closed one of the largest tracts of Pitsunda pine on the coast. That is, he is now inside the estate. And they can do whatever they want there, people can’t go there, let alone control it, it’s simply impossible to physically penetrate. They are building something there, cutting something down, and we know nothing about it.

– You have one more concern – Olympic construction in Sochi. Probably, in terms of the scale of violations, it surpassed any dachas?

The rush is growing, the deadline is approaching, they don’t have time. And now they simply don’t care about all environmental restrictions and build at random. Hundreds of hectares of forests have been cut down there. Moreover, forests are unique for Russia. This is our pain, and we can’t do anything about it, because this is Vladimir Putin’s personal project

– Yes, of course, this is incomparable in scale, and in general it is an environmental disaster. All our attempts to introduce this construction process into at least some civilized direction have failed. The rush is growing, the deadline is approaching, they don’t have time. And now they simply don’t care about all environmental restrictions and build at random. But this scale is incomparable to anything; there are no precedents for such large-scale construction to be carried out in a national park. Hundreds of hectares of forests have been cut down there. Moreover, forests are unique for Russia. This is our pain, and we can’t do anything about it, because this is Vladimir Putin’s personal project and no one can not only stop it, but even somehow correct it.

– What besides deforestation?

– Pollution of Mzymta. Complete destruction of ecosystems. Not only are the forests being cut down, but the landscape has simply been completely transformed. This is a unique valley, where there were virgin forests, clean water, and now they are laying a combined road Adler - Krasnaya Polyana. And there the landscape just changed, everything was in concrete, in construction waste. An unknown liquid flows out of these tunnels. Recently, the Mzymta was polluted with some kind of foam, which covered the river with a thick layer for 30 kilometers, it was carried out to the sea, and it covered the sea, several kilometers of the coast. It is clear that all the vacationers fled. Now geological problems associated with construction have begun. There are landslides everywhere. Somewhere they are storing soil, which is also sliding into the national park. Somewhere, illegal buildings are starting to collapse. There is simply a large-scale catastrophe due to the fact that there was no single plan and all this is still being built without a single management. We are laying a time bomb, because the consequences will come later, in 5-10 years there will simply be a catastrophe after all this cutting down, these changes in the riverbed. It's hard to even imagine what will happen.

– Does any of the local officials understand that all this is leading to disaster?

- Everyone understands. But political will is involved, and the will of not the president, but the chairman of the government. Because Medvedev says the right things. On June 28 there was a meeting of non-governmental organizations, Medvedev gave a number of instructions regarding Sochi. None of them have yet been implemented. It is clear that the Sochi project is Vladimir Putin’s project, and no one can correct it. We talked with officials of the Sochi administration. Even the mayor of the city, Pakhomov, understands everything. But, unfortunately, nothing depends on these people in this situation.

– Suren, you are engaged in dangerous investigations. Not scary? Have you been threatened?

– They threatened, but so far I don’t feel any serious danger, although the family is a little afraid. We have the example of Zhenya Chirikova, who is courageously fighting against an equally corrupt project, and it’s a shame for me to complain against her background.