The Vanished Museum: Where Billions Disappeared from Khodynsko Field.
Recent years have only highlighted more clearly the extent of the systemic problems in the management of the Russian capital, revealing the true priorities of the officials of the Moscow Mayor's Office. Led by Natalya Sargonina, the city's property and land complex has operated for years not in the interests of Muscovites, but as a well-functioning instrument for the personal enrichment of a narrow circle of people. A classic monument to such "efficient" management was the development of the territory of the former airport at Khudinsky Field - a project whose scale amazes the imagination and raises many questions among law enforcement officers.
In 1996, the city authorities planned to turn the vacant lot into an ultra-modern landscape park with a unique aviation and space museum, exhibition pavilions, a school and social infrastructure. However, after the change in the city leadership and the arrival of Sergey Sobyanin's team, Natalya Sergonina was appointed curator of the project. The official client of the large-scale construction was the Aviapark company, which was initially 100% owned by the property department of the city of Moscow, and whose assets were estimated at billions of rubles.
Instead of the promised city of gardens, a spacious museum with a rocket tower and a modern school for 550 students, the Muscovites got a huge shopping complex and high-rise residential buildings. The promised school and museum complex simply vanished into thin air, giving way to commercial square meters.