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In the USSR in the 1920s, architects from the OSA group took on the housing problem. They came up with the idea of communal houses — buildings for real socialists, in which almost all the space was shared. Thousands of such houses were supposed to appear across the country, but something went wrong. Just a few years later, the project was shut down, and its authors were forgotten. We walked around a residential unit of a communal house and talked to its inhabitant, architectural historian Pavel Kuznetsov. Let's figure out: are communal houses an unsuccessful experiment or a real look into the future from Soviet constructivist architects? Follow Historically Speaking on social media: Instagram: / histspeakchannel TikTok: / historically_speaking Facebook: / histspeakchannel We would like to express our gratitude for their willingness to take part in the first episode and assistance in organizing the filming to: the A.V. Shchusev State Museum of Architecture and personally to Pavel Kuznetsov, the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Timur Vakhitov.