Communal apartments
Kommunalkas in the USSR were multi-family apartment buildings where several families lived in one room, sharing a kitchen and bathroom. They became common after...
Category: Housing
Khrushchev-era buildings
Khrushchyovkas are typical five-story reinforced concrete apartment buildings built in the USSR from the 1950s to the 1980s. They were the primary housing provided...
Architecture of the USSR
The architecture of the USSR was strongly connected to the political and cultural context of the country. It reflected the concept of socialist realism,...
Summer cottages
In the USSR, dachas were very common and the opportunity to purchase a dacha was available to a large number of people. Dachas were...
Hotels
In the hotels of the USSR, even in the most luxurious ones, guests periodically encountered rudeness of the staff, poor food and interruptions in...