Communal apartments (Russian singular: коммунальная квартира, romanized: kommunal'naya kvartira, colloquial: kommunalka) are condominium-like apartments with four, eight, or more living rooms that share common area such a stove, shower, and toilet. They generally lack privacy. Up until the dissolution of the Soviet Union, all communal apartments were treated as public housing. With the start of privatization in Russia, such apartments started to gain ownership.
Communal apartments became widespread in the Soviet Union following the October Revolution of 1917. The term communal apartments is a term that emerged specifically during the Soviet Union. The concept of communal apartments grew in Russia and the Soviet Union as a response to a housing crisis in urban areas; authorities presented them as the product of the "new collective vision of the future."
Several families typically shared a communal apartment and common areas. Each family typically had only one room, which usually served as a living room, dining room, and bedroom for the entire...
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