Figures

Figure 0.1 Apartment in an “84” apartment building series

Figure 0.2. Enclosed and open post-Soviet balconies

Figure 1.1. Plans of two typical early Khrushchev-era apartments

Figure 2.1. Architectural projects from a competition catalogue, 1987

Figure 2.2. An illustration from Boris Merzhanov’s Inter’er zhilishcha book

Figure 2.3. Typical Khrushchev-era apartment plan transformations from Soviet to post-Soviet versions

Figure 2.4. A room in a typical Khrushchev-era apartment

Figure 2.5. Before and after apartment plans redrawn from plans in Idei vashego doma magazine

Figure 2.6. A plan of a two-room apartment (I-515/5 series) before remodeling and replanning and plans of two post-replanning options

Figure 3.1. Archival photographs of domestic space and furniture use in the 1940s and 1950s

Figure 3.2. “Kitchen fixtures” illustration from Boris Merzhanov’s book Inter’er zhilishcha

Figure 3.3. A New Year’s celebration at home, late 1990s

Figure 3.4. A 1990s kitchen setup

Figure 3.5. 1–447 series apartment plan transformations from Soviet to post-Soviet period

Figure 3.6. A two-room apartment plan transformation

Figure 3.7. Remodeling plan of a four-room apartment suggested by Idei vashego doma

Figure 3.8. A kitchen bench (miagkii ugolok) purchased as a luxury item in the late 1980s

Figure 4.1. 111–78 series according to Boris Merzhanov’s book Sovremennaia kvartira

Figure 4.2. An example of an individually designed apartment building with four-room apartments containing one sanitary block

Figure 4.3. Individually designed post-Soviet apartment building home with two bathrooms, blueprints developed in 2002

Figure 4.4. “Mounting washing machines” in bathrooms of different configurations, an illustration from a 1988 Soviet book on apartment interiors

Figure 4.5. A plan of a replanned Khrushchev-era apartment

Figure 4.6. A combined sanitary block in Kyiv containing a bathtub, a sink, a toilet, a bidet, and a washing machine

Figure 5.1. Khrushchevka apartment with a walk-through room and a stalinka apartment with a hallway

Figure 5.2. A bulletproof metal door and a faux leather-sheathed metal door in a post-Soviet apartment building stairwell