Novo-Ogaryovo (russian: Ново-Огарёво), also transliterated as ''Novo-Ogarevo'', is an estate in the

Odintsovsky District Odintsovsky District (russian: Одинцо́вский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #11/2013-OZ and municipalLaw #64/2005-OZ district ( raion), one of the thirty-six in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located in the western central part of ...

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, located by the

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west of the city of

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. It operates as the suburban residence of the

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, officially recognized as such in 2000, although, throughout

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's second tenure, he has spent progressively more time at Novo-Ogaryovo, so much so that it has been unofficially termed the ''de facto'' residence of the head of state. Novo-Ogaryovo was constructed in the first half of the 1950s on the foundation of a 19th-century

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, at the behest of

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, using his architect daughter's design. Construction work was under way when Malenkov was removed from his position of

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in 1955, and the place was then used as a '' gosdacha'', a "state ''

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''", or vacation retreat for housing guests, for receptions, and as a workplace for various government committees. Since 1991, Novo-Ogaryovo has been reserved as a government residence, mostly unused until Russian President

(in office from 31 December 1999) had it renovated in 2000. A six-meter-high wall surrounds the Presidential residence. In October 2012, Putin announced his intention to work at Novo-Ogaryovo to avoid

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into Moscow, due to the city's extensive

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congestion. In April 2020, Putin self-isolated at Novo-Ogaryovo after meeting with the head doctor of City Clinical Hospital No. 40, Moscow, who later tested positive for

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