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| хрущобы (The more than 4,500 apartment blocks slated for destruction were built under Nikita Khrushchev in the communist 1950s and 60s. Mostly five-storeys high, they were designed to be functional rather than fashionable. The Khrushchevki, as they were known, allowed millions of Soviet citizens to escape communal flats, for a space of their own. BBC Alexander Demidov) | |||