On 28 July, the first auction was held at the Moscow office of the Auction House of the Russian Federation. At public auction, a 100% share package in the Baikal Hotel Complex was put up for sale.

The sale was conducted by order of TsentrAtom, a company created within the structure of Rosatom especially for dealing with non-core assets of the atomic industry.

The main asset of the shareholding company is the Moscow hotel Baikal (formerly the department hotel of the Rosatom state corporation. The property is located at the address: Kosmodamianskaya nab., 4/22.

Area of Baikal hotel complex – 3 136.7 sq.m.

Area of land plot – 0.29 hectares.

100% of shares in the Baikal hotel complex were sold for 426.5 billion rubles, which was 42 million more than the starting price of the package – 384.5 million rubles.

The winner of the auction was Mirtek Group 

Andrei Stepanenko, general director of the Auction House of the Russian Federation, commenting on the results of the auction, said:

“We are very satisfied with the result of the auction. Development in the historical center of Moscow is always complex. But despite the lull during the summer period and the limited exposure period, the Baikal hotel was sold with a good increase in the starting price. We expect that this will become a guarantee of future cooperation with TsentrAtom in the sale of non-core assets of the atomic industry, especially as for our partners this was also the first public auction for the sale of property. 

“Today’s auction is also remarkable in that it is the first auction at the Moscow office of the Auction House of the Russian Federation. We are now open for buyers and sellers, and we are waiting for everyone who is interested in cooperating with us in Moscow at 1 Khrustalny Pereulok.”