Khrushchev's Soviet Housing Programme

Witness History

BBC

History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2017

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In the 1960s, millions of Soviet families were able for the first time to move to a flat of their own. This was due to a mass construction programme of standardized housing. Dina Newman speaks to a resident of one of the first five storey apartment blocks, and to Clem Cecil, a campaigner for preserving architecture.

Photo: a five-storey building dating from the 1960s in western Moscow on June 11, 2017. Credit: AFP/Getty Images

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0:35.4	Sounds.
0:36.4	Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.
0:40.9	My name's Linda Davies and I commissioned
0:43.0	podcast for BBC Sounds.
0:45.0	As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality,
0:49.0	featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely engaging voices.
0:54.4	What you may not know is that the BBC makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars,
1:00.9	poltergeist, cricket and conspiracy theories, and that's just a few examples.
1:06.4	If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over at BBC
1:11.6	Sounds. Hello, you're listening to the Witness Podcast.
1:15.0	History as told by the people who were there,
1:17.0	with me, Gina Newman.
1:19.0	Today I'm taking you back to Moscow in the 1960s
1:22.0	when the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev started a large-scale social
1:26.7	housing program, building thousands of apartment blocks.
1:30.6	Until the 1960s, most Moscow residents lived in very overcrowded conditions in
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