Khrushchyovka is a type of low-cost, concrete-paneled or brick apartment building, which was developed in the USSR during the early 1960s, during the time its namesake Nikita Khrushchev directed the Soviet government. These buildings are found in great numbers all over the former Soviet Union (and former communist states in eastern Europe as well).
I went @ flickr and look at photos filtered by "soviet apartment". More colorful than I thought!
© Austronesian Expeditions: Soviet era apartment blocks, Petropavlovsk
© Benjamin Jakabek: Soviet style apartment blocks, North Korea
© chaddm: Soviet era Chelyabinsk apartment block
© Christopher Cote: Cahul apartment, southern Moldova, Romania
© ciasullo: Soviet apartment blocks
© Claire Henry: Soviet block housing units, Kecskemét, Hungaria
© David & Bonnie: Soviet era apartment blocks, Didi Dighomi near Tbilisi, Georgia
© keith mellnick: Soviet apartment, Karaganda, Kazakhstan
© Kel Squire: Soviet style apartment blocks, Beijing
© Knut-Arve Simonsen: Arkhangelsk city, Russia
© Marcus Wong: Five story Soviet apartment block in Чинары
© Ryan Goebel: Soviet era apartment housing blocks in Ulaanbaatar
Ulaanbaatar Rising - An Exploration of the capital city of Mongolia
