An 850-square-metre estate in the village of Ivankivychi near Kyiv has been put up for sale, belonging to a former top manager of Russian Gazprom. Journalists identified the owner as Valeriy Kanyuka, whose son is developing a business in Ukraine.
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In the village of Ivankivychi, known for its premium-class residences, an advertisement for the sale of a massive estate has appeared. The building area is 850 square metres, adjacent to a plot of 70 sotkas (7,000 square metres). In addition to the main building, the territory includes a guest house and a security facility. The property is priced at $4 million. The residence is also offered for rent at $7,500 per month.
The estate's infrastructure includes two pools (indoor and outdoor), a sauna, a billiard table, an armory, a wine tasting room, and a private park. The interior is executed in a luxury style: the master bedroom features a "king-size" bed, the children's rooms have leather furniture, and the leisure area boasts a huge onyx table. The house also has a library, bathrooms with armchairs, and living rooms with luxurious sofas.
The sale advertisement appeared on real estate websites several months ago. Realtor Oleksandr Petrenko actively promoted the property, publishing four video clips on his social media. In them, he addressed potential buyers: "If you have a family, staff, and security, you will have enough space." After touring the house, he noted: "Wood, velvet, leather… Such houses are truly incredible."
When journalists from Slidstvo.Info called Petrenko to find out the owner's name, he refused to disclose the information: "Even if I knew who the owner was, I wouldn't say it over the phone." The realtor assured that he is not actually selling the estate, and the video was shot for marketing and to attract subscribers: "So that there are subscribers, so that people contact me about the house. Look at how many views and comments it has. It's marketing, I understood there would be a fuss."
Despite the realtor's refusal, journalists managed to establish that the house and land plot belong to 72-year-old Valeriy Kanyuka, a Russian citizen. According to the state register of property rights, he became the owner of the real estate in 2009. Images from Google Earth confirm that active construction and landscaping of the territory began during this period.
Valeriy Kanyuka is a former top manager of Russian Gazprom. From 1999 to 2002, he worked at the subsidiary Gazprom Dobycha Yamburg, which is engaged in oil and gas extraction in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Since June 2024, this company has been under Ukrainian sanctions.
In 2002, Kanyuka moved to Gazkomplektimpex (renamed Gazprom Komplektatsiya in 2009), where he worked for 15 years until his resignation in 2017. Gazprom Komplektatsiya is responsible for organising the supply of material and technical resources for Gazprom and its subsidiaries. This company also came under sanctions by a decree of the President of Ukraine in June 2024.
In 2008, during the signing of a contract between Gazkomplektimpex and Rolls-Royce, Kanyuka was listed as the acting general director. In 2010, he was titled as one of two deputy general directors and a mechanical engineer. In 2011, a news item appeared on the official Gazprom website about the signing of a contract by First Deputy General Director Valeriy Kanyuka in the presence of Vladimir Putin.
According to unofficial data, Kanyuka's annual salary at Gazprom in 2015 exceeded 17 million rubles (approximately $277,000), and in 2016 it was 19 million rubles (approximately $283,000). After his dismissal in 2017, he worked as an advisor at private companies in the oil and gas sector until 2024. Two years ago, he left his position and is presumably retired.
Until 2022, Valeriy Kanyuka regularly visited Ukraine. According to border crossing data from 2015 to 2022, he was in the country 26 times. He last left Ukraine a month before the full-scale invasion, having stayed there for about 2.5 weeks during the New Year period. Journalists found photos from 2017 from a luxury restaurant near Kyiv, where Kanyuka, his wife Halyna, and their adult sons were celebrating an event.
Kanyuka's sons work in Ukraine and are developing their businesses. One of them owns a share of the land plot on which the estate stands. When journalists called his son to find out who manages the residence, he replied: "Why do you need to know that? Everything is legal there, everything is normal. That's all you need to know. Goodbye."
Since 24 February 2022, information about Kanyuka's movements has been limited. In 2025, according to open sources, he took 4th place in a billiards tournament among guests of the Sakropol sanatorium in Crimea, indicating his presence in the occupied region. Attempts to contact Valeriy Kanyuka himself yielded no results.
Valeriy Kanyuka is a Russian citizen. Journalists obtained data from his Russian passport, issued in 2003 by the internal affairs department of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. The real estate sale advertisement listed the details of his Ukrainian passport, which, according to the State Migration Service, is currently invalid. Kanyuka is also a tax payer in Russia, confirmed by a valid tax identification number.
Valeriy's wife, Halyna, also owns a significant amount of real estate in Russia: a house in Tsarskoye Selo, two apartments, a parking space, and premises in Moscow, as well as property in Yalta. In the early 2000s, she also worked at Gazkomplektimpex.
A lawyer from the real estate agency The Capital, which handled the estate's rental, explained to the journalist: "First, we do not cooperate with individuals or legal entities who are citizens of the aggressor country. This is a principled position. It is simply a human stance, it is our company's overall position. Second, you know, I do not rule out that this object slipped through somewhere in the messages without some prior verification."
Tetyana Khutor, head of the analytical centre of the Institute of Legislative Initiatives, commented on the possibility of asset confiscation: "In the context of this specific person, if he is already in Russia, if he was carrying out active activities that could create negative consequences for the country's economic security, then grounds for imposing sanctions on him could have been found. It is mainly about blocking assets, which is what has the most painful impact on sanctioned individuals."
At the time of publication of this material, the advertisement for the estate's rental had been removed from real estate sales websites.
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