On April 11, Vladimir Putin met with Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer in Novo-Ogarevo. We have collected for you some interesting facts about the residence of the President of the Russian Federation near Moscow

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The President of the Russian Federation has several official residences located in different parts of Russia. These are, first of all, “Bocharov Creek” (Sochi, Krasnodar Territory), “Shuiskaya Chupa” (Republic of Karelia), “Long Brody” (Valdai, Novgorod region), “Rus” (Zavidovo), the Moscow Kremlin (Moscow), “Konstantinovsky Palace” (Strelna, St. Petersburg), “Novo-Ogarevo” (Odintsovo district, Moscow region). The latter is considered the main and favorite patrimony of Vladimir Putin.

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Novo-Ogarevo became the official residence of Vladimir Putin in 2000, that is, he has been living here for 22 years. The estate is located in an area protected by the Federal Security Service between Rublevo-Uspensky highway and the Moscow River and is surrounded by a high stone fence with video surveillance around the perimeter. It was this place that Putin chose as his main place of residence when he left the post of President of the Russian Federation in 2008 (according to the law “On guarantees to the President of Russia, who ceased to exercise his powers, and his family members”, he was entitled to real estate for indefinite use).

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Novo-Ogarevo is a manor with a rich history. The main house was built in the XIX century by order of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, brother of Emperor Alexander III, and is surrounded by a large park in the English style. Although, according to environmentalists, a significant part of the green spaces (about 170 hectares) was cut down in 2014 — including the Podushkinsky forest, which partially entered the territory of the estate, fell under distribution.

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Novo-Ogarevo became the state residence under the Soviet Union, in the first half of the 1950s. By order of the then leader of the country, Georgy Malenkov. The reconstruction and modernization of the estate was carried out by his daughter Volya (Valentina), who was an architect by profession. However, he did not manage to live here. After Malenkov’s resignation in 1955, Novo-Ogarevo began to be used as a guest house for foreign official guests and a country house for receptions of the Central Committee of the CPSU.

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In 1991, Novo-Ogarevo (at that time the residence of Mikhail Gorbachev) went down in history as the scene of the Novoogarevsky trial. The heads of the republics of the USSR met here for negotiations in order to jointly develop a new Union Treaty (which was never formed and signed due to the August coup).

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For Vladimir Putin, the estate was thoroughly rebuilt. There is a swimming pool, a gym, a church, a helipad, a guest house with a cinema hall, a separate house for official receptions and meetings, as well as a stable, greenhouses and a chicken coop.

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Novo-Ogarevo is a real “Forbidden City”, closed to the public: only Vladimir Putin’s confidants and elected officials can visit here (and even then only after a mandatory two—week quarantine). Since the beginning of the pandemic, the president has sharply limited communication “in real life” and holds many meetings remotely. In his residence, he has an office for video conferences and online meetings with all the necessary equipment. That’s what he looks like.

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