How Does The Housing That Former Lukashenko's Prime Minister Is Selling Look Like?
14- 16.10.2025, 9:56
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Three-level cottage with a total area of 757 square meters.
A cottage for $4.5 million was put up for sale in Minsk neighborhood Drozdry, writes "Zerkalo". The house is located on Rechnaya Street, where top officials and people close to the authorities have found housing. The cottage from the ad was apparently built by the former Prime Minister of Belarus Gennady Novitsky.
The house for sale in Drozdakh in Minsk on Rechnaya Street. All photos were posted on the website realt.by.
What kind of house is being offered
A three-level cottage with a total area of 757 square meters is being sold on Rechnaya Street in Drozdakh. It was built in 2015.
"The residential part is two self-contained floors with 5 rooms, two master bedrooms, a spacious kitchen, dressing rooms and a modern living-dining room-kitchen with panoramic windows. Four bathrooms: one VIP with bathtub, bidet and shower. Two with bathtubs and bidet. One with shower cubicle", - stated in the announcement.
"Modern accommodation with two master bedrooms, five rooms, four dressing rooms, spacious kitchen, four bathrooms and living-dining-room-kitchen with panoramic windows. The chalet is 80 m², with terrace and fireplace," the ad reads. - Business space - with reception, eight offices, pool area and parking for eight cars."
Interiors are decorated with Italian and German materials.
"Tiles, wallpaper, carpet tiles, crystal chandeliers and modern lighting create an atmosphere of coziness and respectability," according to the ad.
"Perfect climate all year round. There are 17 Mitsubishi Electric air conditioners installed. For fresh air are responsible 6 supply and exhaust systems with recovery, water heating and flexible adjustment. In addition, 4 hoods are installed, including one with power regulation", - add the authors of the announcement.
As for security, there are 16 CCTV cameras, "Ajax system with anti-leakage in the boiler room and pool area".
The house is located on a plot of 17 hectares.
The cost of housing is $4.5 million, or 13 million 348.3 thousand rubles.
Who built this property
The house now for sale looks similar to the one that was built, as "Nasha Niva" wrote in 2013, by former Prime Minister of Belarus Gennady Novitsky. As noted, the official took a soft loan for this purpose.
According to the National Cadastral Agency, provided to "Nasha Niva" in 2013, Novitsky took the money at half of the refinancing rate - at that time 5.5%. According to the agreement, it had to be repaid by 2018. Such large loans were not granted to people of pre-retirement age, but an exception was made for Novitsky.
The size of the house, which was described in the press in 2013, is almost identical to the area of the cottage currently for sale (almost 550 "squares" versus 757).
And this is what the house now for sale looks like.
Gennady Novitsky took over as premier in October 2001. He was a civil engineer by education and made a career in the party organs. Under Lukashenko he was Minister of Architecture, then Deputy Prime Minister.
Novitsky didn't stay as Prime Minister for long. The reason for his resignation was a major scandal with "additions" in agriculture: it turned out that the agrarians had not been paid wages and had not settled with them for the delivered products. Lukashenko threatened all the guilty with terrible punishment - and on July 10, 2003 Novitsky was dismissed from the post of prime minister.
Lukashenko then appointed the scandalized official as chairman of the Council of the Republic. He was later demoted to a member of the so-called Council of the Republic.
After leaving this state structure, the former prime minister led a non-public life. He rarely spoke to the press and did not appear at diplomatic receptions.
He reportedly had job offers, but Novitsky deliberately retired at the age of 65. It is not known what Novitsky's future fate was.
By the way, already being a pensioner, Novitsky threw a phrase: "I have seen all those Politburo members, who were almost taken to the podium by hand, and I believe that you should leave any position in time.
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