Talk:Khrushchyovka

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[edit] Elevators

Don't most of these buildings have elevators nowadays? If so, this should be mentioned in the article. Esn 01:16, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

no. YOu cannot retrofit elevator into a khruschovka. And 5-storeyed buildings were not supposed to have one. `'Miikka 01:26, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

O' YES, actually they tried several upgraded versions of khrushchevkas with outside elevators, albeit mainly to serve the more livable part, the added "penthouse" atop of an older building, which had to be seriously reinforced to hold the additional weight. Steveshelokhonov 23:56, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Hehe: I was writing "into" not "onto". Anyway, your observation is interesting and certainly deserves some text added (do you have references?). Now that you mentioned it I do remember various attempts to "upgrade" khrushchovkas, but after "evroremont" (Евроремонт, euro-remodelling, article about a notable phenomenon is missing!) and other things they are ain't khrushchovkas no more. `'Míkka 00:46, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cause of "housing crises"?

Isn't it the case that this type of quick-build was necessitated by the dreadful destruction caused by WW2? Shouldn't the article say something about this? Camillus (talk) 23:10, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Not just the WWII destruction, but even more so, the fact that not all that much housing (in term of apartment count) was built under Stalin. During Stalin's era, mostly two kind of apartments were built: (1) large, high-quality apartments (some even with a servant's room) for the high-ranking civil servants, executives, and professionals; (2) shared apartments (kommunal'naya kvartira) for the masses, where an apartment could have 5 or more bedrooms and just one kitchen and bathroom, typically with a separate family living in each bedroom. Khrushev's housing construction drive aimed at providing a separate apartment (either a "council flat" from the state, or one provided by the employer, or a family-owned unit in a housing co-op) to each family, by means of drastically reducing construction costs and getting rid of all non-essentials. It still took until the late 1970s or even 1980s to mostly fulfill this vision. Vmenkov (talk) 03:57, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

I am afraid your simplistic version is quite mistaken about what was actually with Soviet housing. I will try to write an article on this topic. `'Míkka>t 17:00, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Such an article would indeed be very welcome! Vmenkov (talk) 09:31, 24 April 2008 (UTC)