Why Soviet kitchens are SO SMALL? | My Russian Apartment Tour
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- čas přidán 6. 05. 2024
- Have you ever wondered why there are so many grey buildings in Russia? Let's have a look inside my Khrushchevka apartment and a Soviet kitchen .
All these Soviet buildings have their own story, from when they were built to their unique features. Almost every Soviet leader tried to solve the housing issue, that’s why these building are named after the leaders that built them: Stalinka, Khrushevka, Brezhnevka. I'll explain how they are different and the story behind each of them.
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Try an average Japanese kitchen and you won’t think the old Soviet ones are that small!
💯sooo true!! My kitchen in Japan is so small I don't understand. It's a large house with the smallest kitchen.
Try the Indonesian one 😂😂
Japan had the same problem; after the war, it was necessary to restore the destroyed housing stock. And the methods in construction were absolutely the same.
Paris entered the chat…
Foodies deserve to have the space for gourmet food
I live in a 1906 appartement in France. Same small kitchen, same window to the bathroom. I guess it's no because of KGB, rather to get light from the kitchen to the bathroom.
Ventilation as well.
You Scotts can always be trusted with the truth
Where I come from, average apartment kitchens are in most cases, smaller than the one in this video.
As for surveillance....we all are living in a capitalist distopia all over the world.
I live in Australia since 1980, born in Argentina. Enough said.
it somehow grosses me out
Because the Soviet Union stole the idea of building houses, their designs, from France. The Soviet Union generally stole a lot of things from what was considered to be the “decaying West,” for example, car designs, from design to how they were generally built.
@@user-wb4ez9gu2o exactly. The whole concept of those buildings comes from the european architectural movements of the beginning of the XX century. Same things for their cars, a lot of them were based on the Fiat models for instance. In both cases they copied the concepts thought for the lower classes in Europe. Easy cheap practical buildings, and easy to build small cars.
Housing is a human right. In Soviet Russia they gave these houses for free for the working class if they can’t afford renting or buying a house. You can’t pass it to your children but it’s a very good idea to provide free housing for their citizens.
You have Windows between bathroom and kitchens in old buildings in Norway aswell, it was for lighting, electricity was not something to waste back in the day
Yes anytime a govt screws you THEY are helping you somehow
For a working class Spanish worker in the 50s that house would have felt like a palace ---- for thousands today too
We have those to let steam out of windowless bathrooms.
My kitchen isn't that much larger
@@Zapata1848I lived in one this apartments, and visited many in the Eastern Bloc. 67m2, 2 bedrooms, 2 balconies, and an thermal isolated so that you can walk around naked while snow is falling outside. Nowadays not cheaper than 80k euros. The random couple in their thirties would required a 15,20 year's old mortgage for paying that.
Balconies were for freezing extra food.
We just used our unheated back porch.
It was completely enclosed.
same in northern China😂
@@user-dh6bj2me5pwhat do you mean unheated backporch??? Do people heat the outside?
You enclose the balcony and gain an extra room.
what extra food?! 😂
My friends from Moscow tells me that the real reason is not for spying (window too high to see people easily) but because they did not build lighting in the bathroom to save money. Light came from the kitchen.
Exactly.
I've never seen a bathroom without electric lights but the windows does provide a natural source of light in the daytime.
Soviet bathrooms almost never had street facing windows.
And you can air it out from the steam 😊
Nope. It’s a safety feature preventing wall damage in case of gas explosion.
I live in uk and my bathroom has window above the door
They may be small, but at least they are a separate room. In modern architecture the living room and the kitchen are often combined. All the grease from cooking ends up on your nice furniture and you can't leave dishes for later.
There are no living rooms in sovietic appart normally is the kitchen, toilet and a room multifunction. Modern ones have living room but just rich people can afford that even today
I don't know how anyone could like an open kitchen.
Thank you I thought I am alone in hating the open floor plan, I call it architectural pornography 😂
Exactly,!!! And all the noise of clattering pans etc
@@diploll depends, i live in a 1960s soviet era flat and we do have a living room.
still bigger than $2000/month New York apartments
I mean sure, compare a rural area of Russia to a city that contributes almost 1% to the worlds gdp
@@saberur66 Yes, but nothing of actual value, just consumption
No wonder little john need those galvanized square steels
Russia is so great that their population decreases annually.
just the same as united states ☝️?@@del-see-oh
My grandpa built a lot of those apartment buildings in 60's all over the Balkans. As I remember, he told me that they have a very small kitchens or sometimes even one kitchen per floor, because they cooked just a little bit or did not cook at all.They used it only to make coffee, tea or soup. People had one meal at factory restaurant, and for the others they had a lot of goverment owned restaurants all around the city wher they could eat fresh cooked meal for a very low price.
Thus socializing the work that would be done mostly by women, liberating more of their time to participate in politics, study or simply enjoy themselves... think about what a single mom that works two jobs would give for something like that. Oh, yeah, the apartment's rent was about 5% of the minimum wage, and they had State run schools and kindergartens. Terrible, right?
@@LoganMaclarenhow is this terrible??
@@kafkaesque_f well, can you imagine how bad that was for the economy? Like, giving people shelter, food, education, culture, enjoyment, political participation? That should be reserved only to people with generational wealth, the best of us, the ones at the pinacle of human kind, the millionaries and billionaires, not to common folk. The place to common folk is at work, carrying society forward on their broken backs. They enjoy working 16 hours a day, 6 or 7 days per week, they feel productive and motivated. They don't need comfort, like rich people do. And, yes, there was deep, heavy sarcasm in everything that I just said, @kafkaesque_f.
@@LoganMaclaren ohhhh I'm sorry my bad , I thought you were for real bc English is not my first language that's why I didn't catch the sarcasm .
I'm glad we both agree that today's politics around the world is nonsense ,proletariats have no rights or life anymore just slaving for the upper class .
Yes it was heaven, wasnt it? No one wanted to migrate 😂😂😂
That kitchen is massive! ! Have you been in a flat in London? When I lived in London I would have fallen on my knees and thanked every god for a kitchen that gorgeous!
This kitchen its the double size of my Dutch kitchen...do you want to know what a small kitchen is? Go Dutch...
Yes, because even to Russian standards it’s a relatively big kitchen. Usual Soviet kitchen is like 4-6 m2, if I remember correctly
Russia is a State of Mind🙁
See , Russia is a huge country, they do have space for roads and expansions unlike many European countries , also Britain which is technically small, so thus space is definitely an issue for housing in these countries at least in cities like London I’d assume
@@user-ep1tg8jr6obuilt QUICKLY after WW2. Many millions were HOUSELESS!!!! 😢
The window is there because bathrooms have no window so during the day you get a bit of daylight.
And to vent steam.
No
In this type of buildings there were gas systems for heating water. And in case of explosion of this equipment this window decrease blast wave.
@@OlgaProkofyeva-gk4sk steam from the sink or shower in the bathroom. It probably doesn't have a steam vent to the outside.
@@Moonsfire62 No this building on video was built in 60s and there were no central water heating in that time. So every apartment has individual gas water boiler and it was located in the kitchen so to decrease blast wave in case of explosion engineers made these windows in the kitchen.
Gas individual boiler is only the reason for this window. In original version it’s not possible to open this window
Rubbish. Window to kitchen from bathroom, has nothing to to with surveillance! But with Flat and house design.
You guys, that was a joke 🤦♀️
Она пошутила))
We need apartments like that in America. We have a lot of homeless people and your apartments very nice. Doesn’t matter what size it is as long as you’re comfortable and warm.
Well said, my friend @tinytinabigpunch
And in big cities, the entire apartment would fit in that kitchen.
Have you seen NY city apartments?
Many homeless cannot maintain a home
@edwinamendelssohn5129 They would also need a case worker, mental health services, and addiction services available to them at levels that just aren't accommodateable for the vast majority of them. Those apartments would get destroyed more quickly than people imagine.
I live in Scotland and your kitchen is bigger than mine! We have surveillance cameras on every street corner. 💜
That's because the English do not trust you
Seriously stresses me how small the kitchens are in Scotland. Our lives have gotten so much bigger with appliances, yet they keep building tiddly little spaces that can barely fit a fridge freezer. >:(
That's because the English need to keep an eye on you.... 😜
In CALIFORNIA we have License Plate readers. Under the pretense of looking for stolen cars.
I live in Glasgow and you can fit approximately 10 soviet kitchens in my tenement kitchen 😂😂😂 btw she mentioned something called a window, what are those 😂
Only Soviet Kitchens? Have you been in apartments in Barcelona owned or inhabited by working class people?
No.Is there any difference in.size?
They want to save time in cooking by eliminating 500 steps? Meanwhile, the dictator lives in a huge palace with 1000 steps from his bedroom to his shower.
Jeff Bezos?
Perfect answer for an uninformed person.
Thats how dictatorships work 😅 tactical truth for citizens
I'm from Portugal, and my bathroom also has a high glass window towards the kitchen, altough it is bigger than that one (and has the shape of a rectangle). Its a sort of tangled glass, it allows light to pass through but we can't see through it.
I think the reason is to allow for daylight to enter the bathroom. Otherwise the bathroom would be a very dark division of the house, only possible to iluminate with electricity.
Regarding the size of your soviet kitchen, in a way i think it is also a good way to get the best out of cooking heat during winter. A smaller kitchen needs less heating, that way it allows for families to stay warmer more easily during meals.
The heat coming from the oven probably feels really nice and cozy during the harsh russian winters. 😊 I think it's a really nice concept.
In the harsh Russian winters in these apartments the temperature is +25° C. ;))) on the contrary, the kitchen is hot and stuffy. The window is always open even if it's -25 outside ;))
Those apartments had boilers and they were set to one temperature which could be very warm. Lots opened windows because of the heat
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In Russia, all apartment buildings have always been built since the war and are being built with a central heating system, so this has never been a problem. In hot countries, apparently, yes, there is a heating problem in winter.
they build apartments that small in Toronto and they cost a fortune
Amazing... well, @thomasprince4992, in the USSR the apartments were government-owned, but the rent was extremely cheap, just about 5% of the minimum wage of the time.
Well in the EU west countries some people are living much smaller and expensive appartments as well.
I saw a youtube video of an apartment in Italy and the kitchen was incredibly small. I was actually shocked.
Russian tradition is permanent complaining)))))
I hope you know that English-speaking people do not understand that you are joking about big brother 😅 for them this is the future))
Yeah because the KGB definitely didn’t spy on people 😂 oh wait.
@@leeshepherd6512most definitely didn't spy on you poop, but everyone speaks from their own experience. Sorry for your lack of personal safety.
Окно между кухней и ванной делалось для возможности света днём. Кстати, нормы инсоляции были приняты именно в СССР : они запрещали к строительству дома с квартирами без попадания света в течение суток. А вот на западе таких норм не было и нет, оттуда и темные квартиры, влажные углы и тд.
Вот именно, эти окна для солнечного света и минимального использования электричества днём…. просто девчуля юная, неумная и не учится… мозги промыты антикоммунизмом, вероятно ее родителей лично Сталин расстреливал в 38 году прости господи..
I'm from Canada and my city is the oldest in Canada. Every bathroom has to have a way to vent and windows were the norm. Also most buildings here from mid to late 1700s to 1960s our windows in most residential homes and apartments are really big some so big they have built in pullie systems to open them.
I'm an Aussie and (just like my Canadian friend) we've always had mandatory requirements/codes for natural lighting in habitable rooms....
Вот зачем вводить людей в заблуждение и ломать вековые стереотипы о тирании и несвободе😀
I would imagine that the screen between the bathroom and kitchen is for air to circulate. Bathrooms get humid easily and will mold if they don't ventilate. Water those plants!
No it is not a window, just glass in concrete, for more light. For air in bathroom there is a ventilation inside.
It's just a safety measure.
In Soviet apartments these windows are sealed. You can't open them.
And light from the kitchen was just an afterthought.
They were installed to reduce the force of the blast wave and keep whole section from collapsing in the case of kitchen gas explosion.
@@nataliepodgainova6582Thank God, nothing like bathroom smells wafting into your kitchen while you cook dinner.
Yeah... and make refubishment
That’s what much of city life in eastern Europe looks like.
No, especially this brick facade is special to russia, also the iron curtain on the ground floor.
In other easter Europe, style of building is similiar, but more build in the 1970ies from concrete, not from bricks.
Also the habit of painting the staircase in dark colors is very strange and unique to russia.
How would a window help to government spy on you in the bathroom?
Been Asking that myself as well. I'd rather say it's just a way to give some natural light to the bathroom which might be useful during power outages + air ventilation.
She was joking......
I've noticed that in many videos of Russian interiors, there is always this beautiful Victorian style wallpaper throughout. The wallpaper is always in wild, bold, unusual colors like pink, teal, purple, etc. In Communist Russia, where things are built dull and utilitarian, the vivid wallpaper always makes me think that they are trying to add a little color and rebellion to their lives.
I'm sure, after WWII, they didnt have a lot of wallpaper options and that style was the cheapest. But I still like the fantasy of it being something more personal. 😊
It was literally whatever wallpaper was available where you live. 😂
These days when people have much more choice, most people opt for light colours with subtle patterns.
BTW here in Australia people used those bold patterned Victorian-styled wallpapers a lot until 1990s. Commonly seen homes that temporarily go on rental market after the older owner dies and before the heirs renovate for sale. Also flower patterned carpets and pastel coloured bathtubs were in vogue.
never noticed that. I thought everybody had this type of wallpapers all over the world )
Just looked around... I have yellow wallpapers with flowers pattern :D
And where do you think rebellious people bought the wallpaper? In rebellious state shops and the wallpaper was produced in rebellious state owned and ran factories.
Wallpaper is a necessity, without it it is too cold in winter. Also, the walls of reinforced concrete panels were not very smooth or pleasant to look at. Wallpaper also provided sound insulation, since audibility in such panel houses was a problem. The wallpaper was glued to a layer of old newspapers, or sometimes even to a layer of old wallpaper - the old wallpaper was light, which made it possible to do this. So under the layer of fresh wallpaper in such houses there is often a whole history hidden, almost like layers of old plaster with old paintings in churches.
@@barbthegreat586 LOL, they don't get it😂
Soviet bloc citizen here, I have the same window between the bathroom and the kitchen, the house i live in is older than communism. I was told there were laws that required these windows whenever the area of bathroom was below a certain limit, it is that simple. Where i live, bathrooms are nowadays much smaller, no windows though, regulations must have changed.
I live in the US and my kitchen is about the same size but with maybe 1 extra counter. But we don't have as much room to walk around because it's a very narrow space between two counters facing each other to cook in, so it can really only fit one person at a time. The building was built in 1996, so there really aren't any excuses except to maximize the number of apartments they could fit on the property.
Small is acceptable but why so outdated and dirty😂
I really enjoy the insight you provide into everyday life in Russia. It's always a pleasure.
Bigger than my kitchen in Vancouver.
Also in Germany, in Berlin sometimes i can see a window between the kitchen and the bathroom 💀
The layout kind of reminds of some Indian flats honestly
Kruschevska? Was this named after some Nikita Kruschev post war building drive? Just wondering 🙏
Народное название жилья, которое безплатно давало государство. По фамилии. руководителя. ❤
Yes, this is an unofficial name in honor of Khrushchev. By the way, there are also “Stalinkas”, houses named after Stalin that were built from 1933 to 1963, they were larger and better than Khrushchevkas.
@@LongMax Thank you. I love learning about Russia and find this fascinating 🙏
😊even in Uk years ago,always had small kitchens,strange as people cooked more years ago....❤Your kitchen.
Small? Compared to some super expensive apartments here in berlin… thats big. 😂 here its be like 1 room apartment, two kitchen cabinets in the living room that for 900 - 1.100 per months 👽
One would assume that the bathroom window was there to allow steam to leave the room faster, but i suppose every apartment was assigned its own NKVD agent who lived in the bathroom...
All joking aside, the Soviet government was not as totalitarian or deeply entrenched as many who are poorly informed on the topic may believe.
Many academics have written about the Soviet government's relationship with people's daily lives and contrary Western and Liberal portrayals, the scholarly conclusion is a far cry from what many people believe.
Useful references:
"Urban Planning and Housing in the Soviet Union" by G. Andrusz
"Stalin's Constitution" by S. Lomb
"The Shortest History of the Soviet Union" by S. Fitzpatrick
"The Origin of the Great Purges" by A. Getty
"The History of the Gulag" by O. Khlevniuk
Misinformation is easy to spread. It is much more difficult (and not as fun for some) to actually engage with scholarly works.
Came here to make a very similar comment, though with much less in the way of citations. Thanks for the reading material!
thank u ☝️
It was not fot the steam. Each apartament has own gas water heater in bathroom. In case of explosion glass window will allow quick escape of pressure and dont damage the building construction
The thing is, the governement was the only one doing the planning and delivering the design.
nobody could design anything themselves, that's what people partially did in their Datchas.
But then, there was no supply with materials or tools, so it's all kind of improvised.
It's not just going to the home depot and by a drilling machine.
Lots of this type of housing was built everywhere in europe after the wae, especially in uk where bimbs were dripped but even in areas that just neede houses as the population started to grow.
That kitchen is not small...it's perfect...I used it a lot, since I grew up in one like that
Because you were used to that. I am Italian and I lived in different countries. For me that kitchen is very small and the window is disgusting. The apartment is very old. I would never rent an apartment like that one. But in Italy we do have smaller kitchens and older apartments 😅 (without the window 😂). it depends if you have money or not.
@@kolise_kollgenau so ist es
Я итальянец, и моя кухня тоже из 1950-х годов. Вы не поверите, но она меньше вашей. Советы делали хорошие вещи. Большой привет из маленькой деревни в центральной Италии.
Пиздишь?
Thanks for educating us about Russian life. I've always been interested in your culture and history.
This could have been used in 1959 for the Kitchen Debates between Nixon and Khrushchev. Khrushchev was trying to make the point that bigger American kitchens were full of junk housewives didn't really need, and Nixon was making the point that Americans were better off because capitalism was producing goods better than communism, even in the kitchen. Each predicted his country's system would best the other by the time there were grandchildren..
Both kitchen systems each have their advantages and disadvantages.
Especially when from the kitchen the KGB can spy and make sure nobody is stealing the toilet paper. And from the bathroom they can spy and make sure nobody is putting poison in the borscht. In luxury housing for Party members only there were two windows with one-way mirrors, so two KGB agents could spy on one another at the same time.@@Fenrir.Lokisson
I imagine Eli would rather have the American kitchen of the 1950s.
@@Moksha-Raver Don't be too sure, but only she can speak for herself.
@@Moksha-RaverWho will cleaning that( big kitchen)?
so much was destroyed after WWII it made sense they wanted to stabilize and grow things to recover from the war. but its true smaller is more efficent when you scale that across large numbers of people it creates efficiencies, the soviet union grew a lot over this period.
You really mean this is small? Idk, for me this feels alright for most housing in European countries.
I don’t mind small kitchens. How do you decorate eggs like that? They’re so pretty.
These are the special Easter stickers for eggs.
Just a sticker on a regular chicken egg.
This reminds me of many buildings/ apartments in Cuba !!
you still have big brother today .very sad !!!
You mean, our cell phones?
Here in usa soo many have no home,laying on sidewalks.i think that would be fine for most ppl here.we have tiny studio apts even one bedroom that dont have bathrooms.you go down hall to shared
What do you mean, capitalism doesn't work for you? What happened? Who does it work for then if not for you?
You have to remember that Soviet Union was totally destroyed and wanted to provide homes for as many people as fast as possible. Now how do you think people live in New York and how large their apartments are? Obviously, you have paper on you walls which is bad. My parents had paint on the walls and everything was painted every year.
That's cool, but what about other countries *totally destroyed* after WW2? 😂
Isn't it just an excuse for treating people like animals in the soviet union?😂
@@user-pv2pd3ws5u I don't know how you were treated but have you seen where people live in Germany or in Austria or in Holland, France. I can't imagine to live in such a small accommodation.
@@user-pv2pd3ws5u I was shocked when I realized that all people in Paris don't have water in their units. Before rubbishing your own, you should know that grass in the neighbourhood always appears to be greener.
Painted walls are not suitable for Russia, it will be too cold in winter, all houses and apartments have paper wallpaper. Moreover, modern wallpapers with modern adhesives and on pre-leveled walls last for decades. Previously, when I lived in a house similar to the one in the video and with the wallpaper available at that time, of course I had to re-glue the wallpaper, but not every year.
They are all over the former Soviet Union and Mongolia too. Hehe.
When I see Ukraine war coverage oh crap that looks like the town I grew up in up in.
Well atleast they solved the housing crisis.
Other systems should follow.
Based comment, based name, based pfp
they didnt solve housing crisis, they lied that they will make better comfortable apartment's , instead of that they created compact , budget , poor , with minimal costs cheap buildings advertising it like perfect apartments
You had to wait 9 years to get an apartment.
@@aceracer4419 I live in one, 2 bedrooms, living room, bathroom and a toilet, rent: 20 euro a month. I pay internet more than rent.
I call that solved housing crisis.
Croatia still uses old Yugoslav system of housing bcs switching back to capitalist one would cause housing problems.
@@synewparadigm More like 3-6 months.
Your kitchen looks authentic and beautiful, never change it 💕.
I am living in Munich with a window exactly like that in a much smaller kitchen and super expensive...
1. У вас огромная кухня, вы не видели кухни, например, в Канаде, где я живу. В тот раза меньше. 2. Такие окна - это для безопасности. Так как устанавливали газовые колонки. Ещё по инструкции в двери должни быть отверстия, для поступления воздуха, который необходим для сжигания газа. Это тоже для безопасности. Вообще, не понятно почему люди всегда не довольны своими домами, городами, странами. Всё внутри вас. Если вы несчастны здесь, то переезжая в другое место вы перевозите свои внутренние проблемы. И опять не счастливы. Наслаждайтесь жизнью и благодарите за каждое мгновенье. Да , ещё про коммунизм. Я молодой был тоже антисоветчик и жил при СССР. Но сейчас, проживя жизнь и пожив в разных странах скажу так: никто так не заботился о своих гражданах, как так не любимые вами коммунисты. Хотя вы и не жили в союзе и мозги сейчас промывают людям будь здоров. Эти хрущёвки раздовали людям бесплатно и потом, более позднее жильё тоже было бесплатно. О таком никто в мире и не мечтает. И бездомные, и преступность из-за бездомности, просто зашкаливает. Так что благодарите своих предков и не поливайте их грязью. Удачи!
много воды мало смысла давайте как-нибудь без бубнёжки про старые добрые времена
@@fluttermorpНаше советское прошлое для тунеядцев и спекулянтов действует как крест на вурдалака.
Thanks for saying all that about the USSR. Only those who never lived under a poor capitalist regime (or in the US) can't realise how much the USSR did for its citizens. Thank you for not giving in to the anti-communist propaganda and being fair.
@@LoganMaclarentrue that. My friends in the US couldn't grasp how as a child and high-school, I could go and enroll into several educational programs, whatever interested me, like art, theater, chess, any science, sports - all for free. Watching them spend a small fortune on their child makes me appreciate it even more.
This makes me cry. 😢 they were like "see, its better" but they were really just trying to hurry up and provide while attempting to make better housing, but the whole thing just crapped out b4 anything got better.
I would remove the settee and add a table the same height and depth as the counter for the full length of the wall. Prepare food on top, small appliances, and storage underneath. If you need the settee for company sitting, get several folding chairs and make the table short enough that you can store them folded against the sliding glass door, or store under your new 'counter' table. Also, frame the bathroom window with 1×4 or 3s and install several 1×4 or 3 shelves to store spices, small containers and knick knacks. 😊
Ikea ;)
Cozy place. Of course a place is what you make it. The only thing is I don’t want someone snooping on me❤.
Crazy anti communist propaganda....damn I wish I had an affordable apartment......
Go try NK then red hair regard
Girl 💀
The design flaw?
Anticipating "the rise of communism".
The size of the kitchen is a regular and normal size kitchen for most Asian houses.
Mine Is smaller. Less than 2x2. I love It! I put myself in the centre with a sponge, I spin on my feet a couple of time and everything it's clean! 😂
😂
Люблю тебя 🇷🇺
You need to video that!😁
@@turkhon 🌿❤️🌹💙🌷🧡🌺💚🌸💜🏵️🤎🌼♥️💮🌿
@@JamieSuzanne. no way! I love my privacy 😊
So do you know this Version of
Den - Pobedy Soviet Victory Day Song - With Lyrics
available in youtube...One of my favorite
Итак, вы знаете эту версию «Дня» - «Победы, советская песня ко Дню Победы» - текст которой доступен на CZcams…Одна из моих любимых (?)
The "propaganda" of kitchen efficiency was evident also in western Europe, notably with the so-called Frankfurt Kitchen, built in the social housing in Frankfurt and elsewhere in Germany. It was designed by Margarete Schutte-Lihotzky in 1926. It was based on the principle of limiting walking distances between the sink, cooker and cupboards.
What kind of anticoommunist propaganda is this lmao
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Adoro seu senso de humor!!!!. Simples, mas inteligente!!!!.
I agree.
Eli is a bunch of good things.
Eli your amusing. Your window of Russia and world
Eli, I have a topic for a video. I learned part from the guy from the Survival Russia Channel. He is Danish I believe, came to Siberia and married a Russian woman. But the video.
He showed us the traditional Russian stove. It was a big stone thing in the kitchen, but it's walls provide the walls to other rooms. It is tricky to light. First you open a vent at the back of the stove at the chimney, and you burn, say newspaper. The purpose is to get heat into the chimney shaft to cause the stove to begin to draft. Once that is achieved, you can light your wood in the stove and smoke won't come back into the room. Drafting is 8mportant.it takes a long time to heat up, but once it is hot, you could remove all the wood and it would stay warm for a long time. Not just the kitchen and adjoining room. The bulky chimney goes through multiple rooms upstairs. The bulk of the bricks heats slowly and holds heat for a very long time.
I suppose one of two things, either they don't use it in the Summer, or they use it for short periods to cook, and then put the fire out before the stove gets hot.
This is a classic design throughout Europe, but it didn't make it to the United States until recently. American culture came mainly from England. There, they had plenty of coal, and stoves went a different direction. Benjamin Franklin invented the Franklin stove, mostly for heating. There were big iron stoves that were log fed. The Amish make and use these today.
There is a simple design used by "homesteaders," (homsteads were ended in 1973, where land was given to people who contractually had to develop the land, houses, roads, etc.). People buy property, often live off grid without supplied electricity or water, using Solar panels and we'll or rainwater.
This Simple stove is called a Rocket Mass Heater. There is a small intake, and the stove is constantly fed small pieces of wood, into the base of a flue that goes straight up about 3 1/2 feet, (about 1 meter). The Insulated flue is inside an overturned 55 gallon, (208 liters) steel barrel. The hot air drafts, and rises very fast, (thus the rocket in the name), and creates a Vortex at the top of the barrel, creating temperatures in the range of 1400 degrees Fahrenheit, (760 Celsius), then moves down the sides of the barrel, to the opening, which is completely sealed off except for a vent. The vent is connected to metal ducting, that typically goes out 8 feet, then returns to the stove, and rises to the ceiling, and typically is routed through the wall and out the building towering up to the prescribed height above the roof. There is engineering data that can tell you how high based on your roof.
Now the duct going 8 feet to and from seems odd, but it is encased in a large bit of masonry. The favored masonry 8s called mud & wattle, a mixture of sand, clay, and straw. It is built into a piece of furniture you can sit or lay on. This is the mass of the rocket mass heater. It may take 8 hours to completely heat up, but if you cut it off at 8 hours, the room will stay warm for 24 hours.
So these simple stoves function similarly as the traditional stoves in Russia. You wouldn't find them in efficiency Soviet apartment buildings, you wouldn't find them in dachas, (or could you?), but in traditional free standing homes.
That is the Crux of the video I will make when I get my channel going. Imagine when I make it, "Oh Tom, You copied Eli's video idea." ciao Bella. Tom
Your kitchen's twice the size of mine lol (I love mine, though, so I'm not offering to swap. 🙃) Handy tip: The trick with sharing a tiny kitchen is to enforce a kitchen rule where only 1 person is allowed inside at a time. Best way to keep the harmony and minimise constant butt-bumping.
Home is what you make it...
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. John Milton, Paradise Lost
@@jackieow That's bad advice by the way.
@@vitordelima Depending on how miserable you want to be.
@@jackieow Or how disconnected from reality you are.
@@vitordelima Assuming you know what reality is.
The time has come to convert two units into one. It would revive that housing stock across the country. Families or even childless couples would invest money into the units and local economy.
Argentinian here, having lived in 4 countries in the Americas and 3 in Europe. We in the Americas have our bathroom equipped with windows (something I rarely see in Europe), looking out to the streets (nobody from the outside can look inside), primarily for natural ventilation purposes (and avoid mold build up from steam from hot showers) and also natural daylight. Super simple, super practical, and super healthy = super smart.
It's super weird to me, as a 3rd Worlder, that over here in the 1st World super rich Western Europe where I have been living for years many modern apartment buildings are NOT built like that. My current apartment in Paris, France is built with the bathroom inside the bedroom and no windows. When it stinks in the bathroom, it will also sometimes stink in the bedroom. And steam stays a long time, I must clean the ceiling and walls regularly from humidity traces to avoid mold. I had another apartment in Paris, also built inside the bedroom, where I had to go up 3 stair steps to get in the shower, WTF? And as always, NO window, WTF? I've stayed at friends' houses +/- the same in Italy, Ireland, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Portugal; only in Spain did I find windows in bathroom (but I guess I was just lucky).
They are not that small but being a fact that same room is used as a kitchen and a sleeping room - that is a problem.
Window between bathroom and kitchen is for natural light to come in
Man i know how bad communism can be and all. But i also know how bad capatilism can be. Atleast they had some type of housing and food in horrible times. Id take that than capatalism being like "ok youll die now"
I don't think that Matters if you get deported to central asia like the chechens were
Do you think being homeless is worse than being deported in soviet concentration camps??????????
Then you're plain dumb. I'm sorry if this statement hurts your feelings, but it's true.
There're things worse than dying alone on the streets, man. Remember that the next time you praise communism
Still larger than kitchens from comfort 2 and 3 Romanian apartments
It gets cold that makes sense it would be smaller less waste
It’s bigger than mine. my “apartment” is only a full bathroom with a bedroom with a counter and a sink that costs $1400/month in Southern California, USA
Soviet and ginger, I'm in love
ЧеГо? Окно там, чтоб при отключеном свете, смог помыться. Отдельная кухня для некоторых - роскошь. Потому что, не мешая другим спать, можно приготовить еды и поесть.
Это вам не студия.😂
Нет окно там из-за газовой колонки, которая по проекту должна стоять на кухне . И если чего то с газом случится и будет взрыв это окно уменьшит повреждения стен
Инженеры в СССР не просто так деньги получали. 😂
Когда в 70 к годы уже началось центральное горячее водоснабжение и эти окна убрали
@@OlgaProkofyeva-gk4sk Скорее к 70-м кончились перебои с электричеством
@@LongMax не скорее - а точно, это именно из-за колонки.
Окна в ванную только в тех квартирах, где колонка стояла. В Питере много таких квартир с колонками на кухне и там всегда окно. Это уже потом делались перепланировки и жильцы переносили эти колонки кто куда. И дверь, кстати, во всех советских домах на кухню с газовой плитой со стеклом по этой же причине : взрыв газа сделает меньше разрушений.
@@OlgaProkofyeva-gk4sk Дверные полотна со стеклом выглядят более элегантно и привлекательно, чем глухие варианты. Они делают интерьерное решение визуально легче и служат источником дневного освещения для коридора и прихожей.
Подобные решения применялись и дореволюционной архитектуре, когда никаким газом в домах и не пахло. Если во времена хрущевок могли быть просто перебои с электричеством, то до революции приходилось бы точно зажигать свечу или керосиновую лампу каждый раз, чтобы днем помыть руки.
Можете распинаться дальше про газ, мое мнение в этом вопросе не измените.
You should see the tiny but very expensive American appartments today. A tiny, cheaply built one bedroom efficiency in my city, and not in a good area, averages about $2,000 per month! And the prices are still rising!
Thank you for showing Russia. This is what the Internet is for. Real people and real places. Love your channel.
Haha I wandered why there's a bloody window going from my bathroom to kitchen..... I'll fill it in during renos
Love me some Eli
“Soviet kitchens are so small!”
Japanese: “You are rich and don’t know it”.
Looks like nothing has changed in that apartment since the 50s..
No no and no 😢
It’s all you need. I live in a 36 foot motor home, and that’s enough for me. My daughter and son in law with two children live in a 5,000 square foot house six bedrooms four baths two-story ! I think it’s excessive but that’s the American Way I guess . Thanks for sharing this video with us out here in Southeast Alabama USA ☮️❤️
There is a house Restore , i'm watching and they have a window like Like that in the bathroom it was to let Let in light and the house was built in the mid 1800s in St Louis, Missouri
That's actually a bigger kitchen, mine is two times smaller, with total capacity of like 4 people barely fitring inside. And that's after fridge were moved into the wall, with drywall "box" around it's back now taking a good chunk of the adjacent living room.
That last part is straight propoganda
I like them!!!
That's not small in Latin America. You people need to STOP comparing everything with the USA.
Bizarrely,though they are known for great cuisine, France and Italy have a tradition of small kitchens too.
I mean they were ahead of their time. Many people are going to tiny homes, vans etc due to rising costs. This is a great option that we should pursue in America
I never thought they were tiny, i always thought they are dirty.
How did the Soviet Government wanted to know what Russian families were doing into their own homes? And why did the Soviet government wanted to what people were doing in the bathroom? Was the window between the kitchen and bathroom more of a feature used as a psychological effect on the mind to keep Russians in line.
The window between bathroom and kitchen was made because in 60s the gas equipment for heating water was individual in each apartment and was located on the kitchen so this window was made to decrease the blast wave in case of explosion. Nothing else only physics and safety. 😁😁😁
I also live in a 9-storey building built in Soviet times. They usually say that the window between the bathroom and the kitchen is used to save light during the day.
still better that a any place that you can get in mexico city
Where divers swim in raw sewage 24 hrs a day to fish out junk that shouldn't be tossed into sewers.
Communist propaganda telling you that living in a shoe box is good for your health.
All humans need a roof over their heads and food in their bellies. It's better than living homeless on the streets or living in your car.
@@melinaesposito3434 so what?
I live in Melbourne and if you know anything about our SERIOUS housing crisis youll know we need this. Our minimum house price is around 900 - 1,000,000 mil aud@tiburonsaanz
@@randomideas7799 what you need is a better government. The 2030 agenda lovers follow the “you’ll have nothing and be happy”. It doesn’t apply to them, of course.
My parents were teenagers in the Soviet times. When they start to talk about their childhood or teenagerhood memories it always gives the feeling of novel 1984.
Thanks for sharing! I find that old video clip interesting. Where can we watch the full version?
Im a builder , that kitchen is unaceptable