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How people really live in Saint Petersburg

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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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