Khrushchevkas (Russian: хрущёвка, romanized: khrushchyovka, IPA: [xrʊˈɕːɵfkə]) are a type of low-cost, concrete-paneled or brick three- to five-storied apartment buildings (and apartments in these buildings) which were designed and constructed in the Soviet Union since the early 1960s (when their namesake, Nikita Khrushchev, was ...

The garage is a huge fragment of Soviet culture that has survived in the modern-day Russian city. It is the most important element of a so-called dispersed way of life. Like the dacha, the garage divided the household between several living quarters.

May 23, 2022 · Soviet-era housing estates of Central and Eastern Europe have been dismissed as eyesores and viewed as monolithic. Their legacy is more complicated than that.

Jul 26, 2022 · Across the former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc, huge concrete complexes stand as testament to Europe’s post-war housing drive. Constructed en masse in the second half of the 20th century, their...

Dec 3, 2013 · The architecture of Soviet times is not just a monument to the epoch, but also an illustration of the social ideals of the Kremlin’s former leaders.

There is nothing remarkable about the ubiquitous Soviet housing blocks in Arseniy Kotov’s photographs. These buildings were replicated throughout the Soviet Union to redress the housing crisis of the 1950s.

May 12, 2019 · One architectural historian has estimated that 170 million people around the world live in Soviet-style mass housing today. Now, these buildings — which can be found in virtually every country...

Aug 28, 2019 · The chapter starts by portraying the roots of the endemic Soviet housing shortage, including the radical suppression of market forces and the housing nationalisation shock of the post-WWII years (earlier elsewhere in the Soviet Union).

Sep 28, 2020 · While neither prefabricated nor panel housing was ever a uniquely Soviet phenomenon, the USSR is a perfect site to study the rise and stagnation of prefabricated concrete panel housing in the 20th century.

Sep 6, 2023 · the dacha book explores the photographic history of dachas in the soviet union dating back to the 17th century.