Andrey Goncharenko

Andrey Goncharenko (Russian: Андрей Николаевич Гончаренко) is a Russian billionaire businessman, the CEO of a Gazprom subsidiary, and the owner of four central London houses bought for a total of £250 million, including Hanover Lodge, "the UK’s most expensive home", for £120 million.

Hanover Lodge, Regent's Park, London
50 St James's Street
102 Eaton Square

Career

In the 1990s, Goncharenko acquired wealth through his involvement in the Russian property, forestry and haulage sectors, before later becoming the chairman of part of Gazprom, the state-owned energy company.[1]

Goncharenko is the chief executive (CEO) of Gazprom Invest Yug, a subsidiary of Gazprom, Russia's largest gas company. Gazprom Invest Yug builds gas pipelines and other gas transport networks.[2]

London property

Goncharenko is the owner of four houses in central London, acquired at a cost of about £250 million over a three-year period.

In 2012, Goncharenko bought Hanover Lodge, "the UK’s most expensive home", for £120 million from the Conservative peer Lord Bagri.[3] Goncharenko has made a series of planning applications to "further enlarge the basement and to remodel the interior" of the 26,000 sq ft Hanover Lodge. The basement extension would include a new larger pool, sauna and steam room, gym, beauty salon, yoga studio, two massage rooms, a cinema, wine cellar and games room. Above ground, "much of the work appears to involve ripping out large swathes of expensive décor only recently installed by Lord Bagri, including intricate cornicing, decorative wall-frieze paintings and timber and marble floors".[4]

As well as Hanover Lodge, he bought 50 St James's Street, Mayfair for £70 million, a mansion on Lyndhurst Road, Hampstead, for £41 million, and 102 Eaton Square, Belgravia for £15 million.[3][2] The redevelopment of 50 St James's Street, built in 1827 as Crockford's, a gentleman's club, and from 1874 to 1976, the Devonshire Club. In 2011, Westminster City Council approved plans to create a members' club, spa, 14-bed hotel, and two public restaurants.[5] The building can now accommodate 800 people over five different spaces.[6] In January 2017, squatters from the Autonomous Nation of Anarchist Libertarians (ANAL) occupied 102 Eaton Square, which had been empty, and opened it as a "homeless shelter".[2]

References
  1. Vander Weyer, Martin (February 2017). "Our high streets are reviving — don't let bank closures mess them up". The Spectator. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  2. Diane Taylor. "Squatters open oligarch's empty London property as homeless shelter". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
  3. "Revealed: Russian oligarch behind purchase of UK's most expensive home". Rt.com. 14 July 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
  4. Ruth Bloomfield (9 November 2013). "Oligarch buys £120 million Hanover Lodge in Regent's Park – and it's too small". homesandproperty.co.uk. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
  5. "Russians' new club venture that may have tunnel vision". London Evening Standard. 25 November 2011.
  6. "50 St James – Fifty St James – London".
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