Coastal land next to Soviet pop star Alla Pugacheva's estate in Solnechnogorsk has been sold at auction for just over 14,000 rubles.
The Federal Agency for Water Resources put two plots totaling 1,700 square meters up for open auction at the beginning of August 2026. The auction was declared invalid after only one applicant, local entrepreneur Gleb Ryskov, submitted a bid, resulting in a contract for water use rights being signed directly with him.
Under the terms of the agreement, Ryskov will hold rights until 2036 to 2,552 square meters along the bank of the Istra River. The property includes 862 square meters of coastal land alongside 1,600 square meters designated as a water protection zone.
Ryskov plans to open a small yacht club with free admission for the public on the acquired site. He also intends to construct a bathhouse situated on a floating pontoon at the waterfront location.
Illegal pier and water rights
Under current Russian legislation, water in the Istra Reservoir cannot be privately owned by the singer, despite a pier that she previously constructed along the shoreline. An official inspection carried out by Rosvodresurs concluded that Pugacheva was using the coastal area adjacent to her estate without legal authorization.
Rosvodresurs, formally known as the Federal Agency for Water Resources, is the state agency responsible for overseeing public water bodies and managing shoreline access across Russia.
Pugacheva, one of the most celebrated performers in Russian popular music, built the extensive country estate decades ago in Solnechnogorsk, a town located northwest of Moscow along the Istra Reservoir. Details of the land auction were first reported by the Telegram news channel Mash on August 19, 2026.
Potential loss of Baltic summer home
The auction of the Solnechnogorsk land comes as Pugacheva faces the potential loss of another long-held residence in Latvia. She risks losing a house in the Baltic resort town of Jurmala that she has rented every summer for the past 10 years.
The owner of the Jurmala property, a former co-owner of the defunct Latvian lender Parex Banka, has placed the residence up for sale and plans to close a transaction in the near future. Parex Banka was formerly one of Latvia's major commercial banking institutions before its nationalization and restructuring during the late 2000s financial crisis.
