Satellite Image Shows Putin's 'New Black Sea Palace'
Journalists found the classified contract covered 2023-2027 and was awarded without bidding, while job postings showed budgets up to 500 million rubles.
- Construction of a new Bocharov Ruchey residence for Vladimir Putin is nearing completion in Sochi, with new buildings replacing structures demolished in 2024.
- A classified state defense contract covers the reconstruction, awarded without competitive bidding to the Crimea-based Transstroyinvest Group, linked by media to Arkady Rotenberg and Alexei Fomenko.
- Job postings recruited workers via social media, describing the site as a "strategic facility" and warning of strict background checks; subcontracts listed work budgets up to 500 million rubles.
- Transstroyinvest Group previously constructed dachas in occupied Crimea for Vladimir Putin and Federal Security Service Director Alexander Bortnikov, establishing its pattern of state-linked work.
- Financial Times calculations show Vladimir Putin's visits dropped from 24 pre-war to twice annually, as Ukrainian drones increasingly reached the Black Sea coast during the full-scale war.
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A new residence for Vladimir Putin is being completed in Sochi under a state defense order, and the construction work is being carried out by a company affiliated with a friend of the Russian president, the BBC Russian Service reports.
The Russian dictator is being built a new palace by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin's residence in Sochi. However, a large-scale construction of a new one is being completed at the site, as reported by RBK-Ukraine, with reference to the Russian service BBC. A new residence in Sochi has revealed that in the territory of Sochi's "Bocharov creek" there is a secret construction of the new residence of the ruler of the Kremlin. The work is being carr…
Putin’s Sochi residence was demolished and rebuilt from scratch. A contractor linked to his friend Arkady Rotenberg is behind the project, BBC’s Russian Service reports.
Construction of a new Bocharov Ruchey residence for Vladimir Putin is nearing completion in Sochi: the old buildings there were demolished in 2024, and by the fall of 2026 new ones had already gone up in their place. The general contractor for the construction is the Crimea-based Transstroyinvest Group of Companies, which is tied to Putin’s friend Arkady Rotenberg, BBC Russia reports.
The reconstruction of dictator Vladimir Putin's residence is nearing completion in Sochi, southern Russia. The contract, without a competitive tender, was awarded to a company connected to his friend, which has also built for the Kremlin boss in occupied Crimea in the past. However, due to Ukrainian attacks in the area, Putin's residence has recently ceased to be used.
Vladimir Putin's official Sochi residence, Bocharov Ruchei, is slowly disappearing - but only in its original form. Satellite images show new buildings occupying a much larger area than the former residence. However, the purpose of many of the buildings in the complex is unknown to the public.
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