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Khrushchyovka (Mayor Sergei Sobyanin told a council meeting on Wednesday that the decision follows a positive review of an earlier, more modest demolition of about 1,700 of the low-rise prefabricated buildings known throughout the former Soviet states as "Khrushchyovkas", Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper reports. They were named after the then Communist leader Nikita Khrushchev, who had millions of the brick or concrete blocks built across the Soviet Union to help overcome the crippling housing shortages of the Stalin era. But buildings designed to last no more than 25 years – a period in which Khrushchev thought full Communism could be achieved – are now showing their age. BBC Alexander Demidov) |
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Khruschev-era house (Anglophile) |
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Khrushchevki (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) |
