Moscow restores historic Berezovsky mansion and neighbors

In central Moscow, three historic 19th-century mansions are being restored simultaneously on Novokuznetskaya Street. One of these buildings was called the residence of businessman Boris Berezovsky, and recently housed offices and establishments.

Active work is underway. MSK1.RU tells what will appear here after restoration and shows how the buildings look now.

In 2024, West Wind Group announced plans to carry out a large-scale reconstruction of one of the mansions on Novokuznetskaya. The developer had acquired the building in 2021. Initially, the company put it up for sale again, but later decided to convert the mansion into premium offices.

«The mansion is an architectural monument. It is important for us to preserve and restore interior details: silk wallpaper in four offices, a marble staircase with columns, parquet, stucco, and a painted ceiling, stove heating in the offices, and fireplace cladding,» reported Elizaveta Ilyukhina, head of the commercial department at West Wind Group.

According to the information sign on the fence, work began in 2025. That same year, the mansion was declared a cultural heritage monument. This means it is forbidden to demolish it, and any work here cannot be carried out without agreement with the city. Formally, these are three separate buildings adjacent to each other.

The clients for the work are SK Management LLC and Stroyproektrestavratsiya. According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (EGRUL), the main activity of the first company is cargo storage and warehousing. The firm«s revenue at the end of 2025 was 60.2 million rubles ($752,500 at current exchange rates) with a loss of 160.9 million rubles ($2,011,300).

Stroyproektrestavratsiya LLC was registered in 2017; its legal address is on Letchika Babushkina Street. The firm is engaged in architecture. Its revenue at the end of 2025 was 173.1 million rubles ($2,163,800) and net profit was 29.1 million rubles ($363,800).

From government procurement data, the enterprise concluded a single contract in 2019. Its amount was 25.2 million rubles ($315,000). The company was to prepare project documentation and a landscaping concept for Sovetskaya Square in Dmitrov, Moscow Region.

The contractor became Igandika LLC. It has existed in Moscow since 2009 and is engaged in wholesale trade. The company«s revenue at the end of 2025 was 67.7 million rubles ($846,300) with a net profit of 1.5 million rubles ($18,800). The firm participated in government procurement and won one tender worth 535,000 rubles ($6,700) in 2019. The enterprise was to supply restoration materials for the Interregional Scientific and Restoration Art Management JSC.

The restoration project was developed by the architectural bureau 827, according to the state historical and cultural expertise act published on the portal mos.ru. The organization was registered in Tambov in 2020. The bureau«s revenue at the end of 2025 was 171.6 million rubles ($2,145,000) with a net profit of 79.8 million rubles ($997,500).

The company signed six government contracts worth 98 million rubles ($1,225,000). Among the projects are creating a concept for an exhibition at the Polytechnic Museum, surveying for the major overhaul of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN) building on Nakhimovsky Prospekt, and other work.

Completion of the restoration is planned for June 2027.

The mansion itself has been closed off with a metal fence for about a year. Part of the roof has been dismantled and is being repaired. The removed roof sections are covered with tarpaulin to prevent rainwater from getting inside. Workers drain accumulated water downward.

Part of the building«s facade has been repainted, with the same light gray color retained. Up above, cracked plaster is still visible.

The mansion at Novokuznetskaya Street, 40, buildings 1 and 2, was built in the 19th century. In the early 1890s, the estate belonged to the wife of merchant Bachurina-Smirnova. Part of the building was built by architect Sergei Sherwood.

The structure consisted of two one-story buildings. One was residential, built of wood on a stone foundation. The second part served as a shed and was built of stone. In 1913, another one-story stone residential wing was added, completing the overall volume of the estate.

After studying the building, it became known that the facade had not been reconstructed since the original construction. The interior layout changed only slightly, done solely because the building was converted from residential to administrative use.

In the 1990s, businessman Boris Berezovsky and partners opened an office for the company Logovaz in this building. It sold domestic cars that had been recalled from foreign AvtoVAZ dealerships. Logovaz also became the first company to import Mercedes cars to Russia. Later, it opened branches that repaired cars.

It was at this building in 1994 that an assassination attempt was made on Boris Berezovsky. Driver Mikhail Kiryanov was killed, while the businessman and his guard were wounded.

In 2006, Logovaz was liquidated. Since then, various restaurants, a travel agency, and others have rented space in the mansion. Currently, part of the building houses a showroom, but most of it is unused.

The neighboring house at Novokuznetskaya Street, 42, building 1, was built in the 1800s–1830s as the main house of an estate. Later the estate expanded, and the building appeared less significant in comparison.

During the 19th–20th centuries, the house was rebuilt but only slightly. Small extensions appeared next to it. The house remained in its original form until the second half of the 1990s. It was dismantled and a new building was erected, replicating the shape of the previous one. During the reconstruction, stoves and wooden staircases were lost. The building is currently unused, but until 2021, a karaoke bar operated there.

Earlier, MSK1.RU reported on the start of reconstruction of a building on the square between Leningradsky and Yaroslavsky railway stations in Moscow. Once, ticket offices operated there, and for the last 10 years it was abandoned.