Dolgiye Borody (Russian: Долгие Бороды or Long Beards) also known as other names "Valdai" and "Uzhin" is a residence of the president of the Russian Federation and is located in the Novgorod Oblast, 20 kilometers from the city of Valdai, near the village of Dolgiye Borody.
In 1992, the pioneer camp "Kosmos" and the boarding house "Lazurny bank" that were next to the presidential residence were demolished.
[1] The construction of the Object 201 (as the official documents called the residence) was started in 1934 for Stalin, who was briefly here only once, in 1939 – but the deafness of this place, hidden in the spruce forests, which was connected with the "mainland" by the only road, confused "The leader of the peoples".
In August 1948 Andrei Zhdanov died on vacation in the sanatorium of the Central Committee of the CPSU on the territory of the current residence.
Here, the wedding of Zhdanov's son Yuri and Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva took place.