They try to evict the Ural protege of Putin from the "Buckingham Palace"

Ex-head of the Uralvagonzavod workshop Igor Kholmansky,
appointed by Vladimir Putin Presidential envoy to the Ural Federal District, they want to evict from the residence in Yekaterinburg. According to critics, a luxurious mansion, popularly nicknamed the "Buckingham Palace", the representative of the head of state must give to children.

The relevant requests were prepared by the deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Construction Vadim Solovyov in the name of the Kholmansky himself and the head of the presidential administration Sergei Ivanov, Izvestia write. Also, in a request addressed to the Chairman of the Accounts Chamber Sergei Stepashin Soloviev, he insists on checking the use of funds for the construction of a residence. Recall that the construction of the residence under official figures cost the budget of 40 billion rubles .

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“I was interested in the information in the media that such a huge building is used for the needs of the embassy. Given the fact that we have huge problems with the placement of children's and social institutions, I decided to send such requests,” Solovyov explained. “In addition, President Putin recently set the task of paying more attention to the social sphere, especially childhood problems.”

The three -story mansion of the embassy is the building is almost legendary. Residence with an area of ​​12 thousand square meters. Petr Latyshev began to build meters with his own park. Peter Latyshev.

“He wanted to receive a Palace of Pioneers under the envoy, which was located in the former estate of the Kharitonov merchants. The president’s appropriate order was already signed, but the townspeople went out into the streets in protest against the transfer of the monument of culture. Then the president’s order was canceled and began to build the current building,” says the State Duma deputy from the Sverdlovsk Region Alexander Burkov.

The proposal of communist Solovyov to transfer the “palace” to the socially significant objects of Socialist -Revolutionary Eser considers Burkov reasonable: “But the result will be simple: Kholmansky will not move anywhere - this is a fact.”

The head of the City without drugs, Evgeny Roizman, offers to place a powerful center of children's creativity in the residence of the Polong -Chairman:
"We can allocate a place and budget financing for all the circles that can be. Any embassy that would do this would go down in history. Because in fact the building is pompous, it looks like Egyptian pyramids. In order to oversee the governors, such rooms do not need to be."

Recall, before the "star" purpose of Kholmanski with his family lived in a panel typical nine -story building in Nizhny Tagil - in an ordinary three -room apartment with an area of ​​about 70 square meters. meters.