Beslan Kvitsinia, head of Abkhazia’s state dacha office, said that a national treasure such as Joseph Stalin’s former dacha on the shores of Lake Ritsa cannot be sold into private hands. The official shared the information with the institution “Apsadgyl information”.
Kvitsinia commented on a video in the media in which a certain person claimed to have bought a summer house at auction for 850 thousand rubles. and there he will build a resort for Moscow VIP clients.
The president of the summer houses noted that this information is not true and that the spread of rumors around this summer house is not a new story.
The object is located on the northern shore of Lake Ritsa, on the territory of the Ritsa relic national park in the Gudauta region of Abkhazia.
The Abkhazian authorities decided to open for tourists five state dachas built in 1935-1947 for the rest of high-ranking officials of the USSR.
In addition to the dacha on the shores of Lake Ritsa, these are dachas on the Kholodnaya River (Gagrsky district), in the city of New Athos, in the village of Myussera and in Sukhumi. In December 2023, the Abkhazian Parliament approved an agreement on the transfer of a state lodge in Pitsunda to Russia.
According to the document, the object is transferred to the ownership of Russia free of charge, and a land plot of more than 180 hectares is leased for 49 years with a payment of 1 ruble per year for each plot of land.
It was also reported that Joseph Stalin’s grandson Selim Bensaad died in November. delighted Sale of the Lipki-Alekseevskoye estate, where his great-grandfather lived in the early 1930s. Bensaad’s press attache Vadim Gorzhankin reported this to socialbites.ca.
According to him, Bensaad hopes that the new owners of the property will preserve the Stalin brand.
Previously at Stalin’s dacha discovered two corpses.