English Explanatory Dictionary

khrushchevka

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A kind of low-cost apartment building constructed in the Soviet Union since the early 1960s.
  2. An individual apartment in such a building.

Word forms

khrushchevka khrushchevkas

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian хрущёвка (xruščóvka), named after Nikita Khrushchev, former leader of the Soviet Union.

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