Exclusive | Russian billionaire Valery Kogan has sold his Versailles-style NYC condo to another wealthy Russian

A prominent Russian banker is the buyer of Russian airport billionaire Valery Kogan’s palatial spread — a residence ornately dressed in a Versailles style — at New York’s famed Plaza, Gimme Shelter can reveal.Vladimir Stolyarenko who once chaired one of Russia’s largest commercial banks, Evrofinance Mosnarbank, paid $21 million for two units — 1007 and 1009 — at the famed Central Park-facing edifice.The over-the-top lair — with trimmings including 24-karat gold and Venetian plaster — first asked $50 million following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Listing broker Charlie Attias, of Compass, declined to comment.Stolyarenko’s new dwelling spans 5,302 square feet and features Central Park views. Its foyer spills into a great room with high ceilings and paneled walls — while the main bedroom suite has a bathroom clad in floor-to-ceiling onyx.At the same time, Stolyaranko and his wife, Alfiya, have listed another unit in the Plaza for $10.49 million.What’s more: Their brokers, Jessica and Burt Savitsky, of Brown Harris Stevens, are offering a $7,500 American Express gift card to any broker who brings in a buyer to unit 1503, according to the listing.

The Savitskys also declined to comment.That unit, as of press time, has been on and off the market for more than 2,000 days.

The couple purchased it for $10.37 million back in 2007.They first listed it for $12.8 million in 2008, according to StreetEasy.Come 2019, Vladimir sold a Plaza unit, No.

1903, to Alfiya for $10 million, according to property records.The Stolyarenkos are also the owners of a now-dilapidated Palm Beach property that they bought from fashion titan Tommy Hilfiger and Dee Ocleppo for $35 million in 2018 — when Christian Angle, of Christian Angle Real Estate, had the listing.At that time, the mansion, at 100 Casa Bendita, looked good but needed a renovation, sources told Gimme.Last summer, the Palm Beach Daily News published shocking photos showing the ...