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An izba (Russian: изба́, IPA: ⓘ) is a traditional Russian countryside dwelling. Often a log house, it forms the living quarters of a conventional Russian farmstead. It is generally built close to the road and inside a yard, which also encloses a kitchen garden, hay shed, and barn within a simple woven stick fence. Traditional, old-style ...
There are several major types of apartment blocks common in Russia. A Khrushchyovka is probably the most popular type. Usually it is a 4 or 5-storied concrete-paneled or brick apartment building with notoriously small apartments, extensively constructed in the 1960s and 1970s to solve the housing problem.
A house in a typical Russian Village. This is a high-resolution picture showing the typical house in a Russian Village. This picture is well-shot and neutral, and is well used in articles. It will also tell people about the Russian culture if it becomes a featured picture. Nominate and support. - GoOdCoNtEnT 18:25, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
A dacha (Belarusian, Ukrainian and Russian: дача, IPA: ⓘ) is a seasonal or year-round second home, often located in the exurbs of post-Soviet countries, including Russia. [1] A cottage ( коттедж , kottedzh ) or shack serving as a family's main or only home, or an outbuilding, is not considered a dacha, [ 1 ] although some dachas ...
Panel khrushchevka in Tomsk. Khrushchevkas (Russian: хрущёвка, romanized: khrushchyovka, IPA: [xrʊˈɕːɵfkə]) are a type of low-cost, concrete-paneled or brick three- to five-storied apartment buildings (and apartments in these buildings) which were designed and constructed in the Soviet Union since the early 1960s (when their namesake, Nikita Khrushchev, was leader of the Soviet ...
Campbell's billionaire boyfriend, Vladislav Doronin, is building the dream home of sci-fi nerds, dubbed the "Capital Hill Residence," in a forest near Moscow, Russia.
The two younger architects, Stamo and Markelov wanted to design their own housing project to diversify from the typical Soviet planned architecture. The main communist architectural authority and the Moscow Mosproject-1 institute let them step out from the standard solutions and make a round building. [12] [13]
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