Andrey Goncharenko

Andrey Nikolaevich Goncharenko is a Russian billionaire businessman, the former CEO of a Gazprom subsidiary, and the owner of four central London houses bought for a total of £250 million, including Hanover Lodge, "the UK’s most expensive home", for £120 million.

Career In the 1990s, Goncharenko acquired wealth through his involvement in the Russian property, forestry and haulage sectors, before later becoming the chairman of part of Gazprom, the state-owned energy company.

Goncharenko is the chief executive (CEO) of Gazprom Invest Yug, a subsidiary of Gazprom, Russia's largest gas company. Gazprom Invest Yug builds gas pipelines and other gas transport networks.

London property Goncharenko is the owner of four houses in central London, acquired at a cost of about £250 million over a three-year period.

In 2012, Goncharenko bought Hanover Lodge, "the UK’s most expensive home", for £120 million from the Conservative peer Lord Bagri.

In July 2023, it became known that Goncharenko had sold Hanover Lodge to Indian billionaire Ravi Ruia for £113 million.

As well as Hanover Lodge, he bought 50 St James's Street, Mayfair for £70 million, a mansion on Lyndhurst Road, Hampstead, for £41 million, and 102 Eaton Square, Belgravia for £15 million. The building can now accommodate 800 people over five different spaces. In January 2017, squatters from the Autonomous Nation of Anarchist Libertarians (ANAL) occupied 102 Eaton Square, which had been empty, and opened it as a "homeless shelter".