коммунальная квартира, romanized: kommunal'naya kvartira, colloquial: kommunalka) are apartments in which several unrelated persons or families live in...

the end of World War II, the side wing was converted to multi-family kommunalka housing, in contrast to the planned elite status of the central tower...

numerous families were assigned to what were called "communal" apartments (kommunalkas). By the 1930s, 68% of the population lived in such housing under very...

However, very soon after construction, units were converted to multi-family kommunalka (communal apartments). Its design was neo-gothic, though it also drew...

and many were forced to share their apartments as communal apartments (kommunalkas) with other residents of the city. In the 1930s, some 68 percent of the...

floorplan that discouraged conversion of single-family units to multi-family kommunalka. Externally, it's a flat slab with modest decorations based on Zholtovsky's...

with more than one room would eventually be converted to a multi-family kommunalka. Apartments could retain the single-family status if, and only if, they...

Messana, Paola (2011), Soviet Communal Living: An Oral History of the Kommunalka, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-230-11016-8 Bagley, Tennent...

buildings were sealed, they were hooked by new tenants. The so-called kommunalka became the most common type of accommodation for the residents of large...

Role) First Malaysian Actor to portray gay person in the media 2008 "Kommunalka" (documentary) Self 2008 Digi "Friends & Family" (commercial) Singing...