 In 1934, his new Kuntsevo Dacha was built; 9 km from the Kremlin, it became his primary residence.In 1935 he began using a new dacha provided for him by Lakoba at Novy Afon; in 1936, he had the Kholodnaya Rechka dacha built on the Abkhazian coast, designed by Miron Merzhanov.Trotsky and several other Soviet figures promoted the idea that Stalin was a mediocrity.