EuroVox | 01.12.2008 | 23:30
Communal Living Continues in St Petersburg
The communal apartment is unusual because it brings together families of vastly different backgrounds and life habits.
In the Soviet Union, communal dwelling apartment were common, with as many as 10 families in each building, and in a way they were a symbol of Communism. Since the end of the Soviet Union system, Moscow and other cities have dismantled most of their communal apartments or ‘kommunalki’. Yet these apartments still remain in St Petersburg.
(Report: Tatjana Montik / Cheryl Northey / Catherine Graue)
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