Aug. 19, 2025, 10:05 a.m.
(Oleg Tsarev. PHOTO: From open sources)
In the annexed Crimea, former MP Oleh Tsarev owns 6 sanatoriums, one of which is engaged in the rehabilitation of participants in Russia's war against Ukraine.
This was reported by the Center for Investigative Journalism.
The sanatoriums are a gift from the occupation authorities to Tsarev. Together with his wife Larysa and mother Nina Tsareva, they run resorts in Gaspra, Alushta and Yevpatoria. The Kirov sanatorium in Yalta brings the most profit to the family - 1.8 billion rubles. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, it has become the main base for the rehabilitation of Russian soldiers. Since 2022, aggressors and their families have been receiving free vouchers through the Russian Social Fund.
During the occupation of Crimea, the sanatorium has signed government contracts totaling 655.7 million rubles. Over the last three years of full-scale war, the sanatorium's revenues amounted to almost 200 million rubles. In fact, the family's income from the treatment and rehabilitation of participants in the armed aggression against Ukraine is much higher. Vouchers for the military are purchased not only through the system of public tenders, but also through private and volunteer organizations. In addition, the sanatorium is connected to a special program for the rehabilitation of wounded soldiers, which also operates in Ukrainian military sanatoriums in Saki and Alushta, which were seized by the Russians.
Oleg Tsarev is a former member of the Ukrainian parliament of the IV-VII convocations from the Party of Regions. In 2014, he fled to Russia, and later to the annexed Crimea. In the same year, he was elected speaker of the parliament of the so-called Novorossiya, a union of the Russian-controlled DPR and LPR groups, which the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine classifies as terrorist. He ran for the presidency of Ukraine. He is on the international wanted list and was sentenced in absentia to 12 years in prison in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, the occupiers closed the park of the Gurzufsky sanatorium to Crimean residents. A high and blank brown fence was erected on the waterfront, completely blocking the view of the park. To install the fence, workers cut up greenery that was part of the park. "The Gurzufsky sanatorium belongs to the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation. The territory, along with the park, is federally owned and does not belong to Crimeans," explains one of the Crimean TV channels.
Катерина Глушко