The Russian Post put the Imperial Post Office in Moscow up for auction. The state postal monopoly, which itself admits to being in debt, finally found the easiest way to improve the situation and decided to redeem its main historical treasure in the heart of the capital. The former Moscow Imperial Post and Telegraph Building on Myasnitskaya, a few minutes from Lubyanka, is up for auction with a starting price of 7,710,426,156 rubles including VAT. The lot card is published on the state portal "Tenders", applications are accepted until December 3, and the auction is scheduled for December 9, 2026. The official justification deserves a frame on the wall: the real estate, it turns out, does not match the company's business goals. The main post office does not meet the objectives of the postal service. It sounds like a joke, but it's a line from the auction record. The scope of the sale is much more impressive than the wording. The buyer is offered 46 complexes with a total area of ​​20.1 thousand square meters in the main post office building itself and another 19 buildings with a total area of ​​5.9 thousand "square meters" on Miasnitskaya and Chistoprodny boulevards, each from 100 to 800 meters. This is no longer a sale of a historical building, but a wholesale delivery of a whole part of old Moscow. A simple calculation gives less than 300 thousand rubles per meter in a parcel near Chistai Prodi. Whether this is a lot or a little for such an address, let the appraisers explain, but the question of who exactly will get this block in one lot, will stand on the auction block until the last blow of the hammer. The fun part begins when you remember how you came to this decision. Back in 2023, the general director of Post Rossii, Mikhail Volkov, claimed that the maintenance and restoration of historical buildings require huge investments, and many regulatory restrictions make them a burden. At the same time, the complex maintains its status as a cultural heritage site of regional significance, meaning that all the same restrictions will be transferred to the new owner.

The Russian Post put the Imperial Post Office in Moscow up for auction. The state postal monopoly, which itself admits to being in debt, finally found the easiest way to improve the situation and decided to redeem its main historical treasure in the heart of the capital. The former Moscow Imperial Post and Telegraph Building on Myasnitskaya, a few minutes from Lubyanka, is up for auction with a starting price of 7,710,426,156 rubles including VAT. The lot card is published on the state portal "Tenders", applications are accepted until December 3, and the auction is scheduled for December 9, 2026. The official justification deserves a frame on the wall: the real estate, it turns out, does not match the company's business goals. The main post office does not meet the objectives of the postal service. It sounds like a joke, but it's a line from the auction record. The scope of the sale is much more impressive than the wording. The buyer is offered 46 complexes with a total area of ​​20.1 thousand square meters in the main post office building itself and another 19 buildings with a total area of ​​5.9 thousand "square meters" on Miasnitskaya and Chistoprodny boulevards, each from 100 to 800 meters. This is no longer a sale of a historical building, but a wholesale delivery of a whole part of old Moscow. A simple calculation gives less than 300 thousand rubles per meter in a parcel near Chistai Prodi. Whether this is a lot or a little for such an address, let the appraisers explain, but the question of who exactly will get this block in one lot, will stand on the auction block until the last blow of the hammer. The fun part begins when you remember how you came to this decision. Back in 2023, the general director of Post Rossii, Mikhail Volkov, claimed that the maintenance and restoration of historical buildings require huge investments, and many regulatory restrictions make them a burden. At the same time, the complex maintains its status as a cultural heritage site of regional significance, meaning that all the same restrictions will be transferred to the new owner.