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How people really live in Saint Petersburg

Juri ReschetoSeptember 13, 2016

Communal apartments were billed as the solution to the housing shortage in the USSR. The idea was to save space by accommodating several families in a single space. To this day, such dwellings remain an integral part of life in Saint Petersburg.

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