Lemme know if you want to see how my old apartment looks like! and don't forget to like this video :) if helps my channel to grow. Happy holidays everyone!
Waw, it looks exactly like in Romania. The soviet russian culture influenced us more that I thought. Not really a fan of this kind of architecture and lifestyle... but your nice energy make it look decent.
Well the Soviet style was supposed to house the most people with the least amount of space. The housing might not be beautiful but it is cheap! Seeing those severe Soviet apartment complexes next to the old Romanian homes and buildings is quite something tho. Like the Soviets showed up someplace that hadnt really changed in hundreds of years, dumped some buildings down and then left. And everyone’s like “huh. That was weird.”
The same Slovakia and Czech Republic. For instance in Prague we have 1.1 milion citizens while ~ 30-35 % live in such block of flats either built in early 60s, up to new series built after Velvet revolution in 1989. Some districts are built mostly using only those block of flats like Bohnice, Jižní Město (largest one about 100k people), Sídliště Petřiny / Červený Vrch, Zahradní Město (oldest ones)
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 NOT IT'S NOT LIKE IN ROMANIA AT ALL! 😡😡😡 ROMANIAN COMMIE BLOCKS ARE MUCH MORE DIVERSE AND MUCH MORE SPACIOUS, COMPARED TO SOVIET BLOCKS! WHERE THE F... DID YOU CRAWL OUT OF...??! 😳 GET SOME INFO BEFORE COMMENTING! 🤬🤬🤬🤬 BAGAMI-AS PULAAAAAAAAA...!!!! 😤
It is a treasure to have your first person family connection to older culture. The "young culture" is worldwide, in many respects. When you share your babushka with us, you connect your deep Russian heritage to your video family. Thank you, Niki. 🙂
Really like the new presentation of Russian flashcards in the bottom left, it helps with learning new Russian vocabulary :) Anyway you are right, for central heating and radiators in apartments in China, the territory is divided between northern and southern China along the traditional Qinling-Huaihe line (秦岭淮河), and only northern China gets central heating in their apartments, where the temperature regularly falls below -40C, -30C is not uncommon in Harbin and also below -10C is also common in other regions of China. It has been like that for 60 years, and the reason was because "it is a waste of energy to provide central heating for the south". However most of southern China does get quite cold during the winter too, compared to other areas of the world at similar latitude because of the Siberian anticyclone. Last winter almost all of China fell below 0C except for the southernmost subtropical region like Hainan. There is a joke that southern Chinese are left to freeze in their apartments during the cold winter whereas the northern Chinese are able to enjoy ice cream in the comfortable warmth of their home.
Also I stayed in khrushchyovka twice, once in Kyiv and again in Vladivostok. It was a cool experience for a foreigner 8) Definitely an integral part of getting to know about soviet lifestyle
I remember my first winter is a mid-south city in China. The coldest temperature was about 0 degrees Celsius and I was wearing a sweater and a coat at home to stay warm. I tried to use AC to heat my room, but it barely had any result and cost too much money. Later on I switched to small radiators. It was such a weird experience after Russian winters
When I lived in Beijing, the heat to the radiators would be turned on centrally, and not according to the outside temperatures, but according to the calendar, regardless of the weather. If it was still cold after the date when heat was shut off, you just had to bundle up and hope for spring to come faster! I got used to it after a few years, but when a late snowstorm hit while my Indian friend was visiting, he shivered with disbelief in my cold apartment! Later that week, we visited the apartment of a friend of his, who happened to belong to the CCP and lived in special Party-only housing, and his apartment felt like a sauna, by comparison. He confessed to us that he got two extra weeks of heat as a perk! I think my friend seriously considered joining the party in that moment. :D
Fascinating tour Niki. I was surprised to recognise many things from growing up in the UK in the 1960s/1970s. A small kitchen, with free standing cooker. Cupboards with aluminium extruded handles. Fairy Liquid on the sink. Old enamelware with the rim in a darker colour. And to top it all a rack of utensils on the wall with 2-tone handles - with a potato masher!
I’ve only recently discovered your channel and am enjoying learning about life in your country. It’s fascinating. Thank you so much for sharing your time and efforts with those of us who probably won’t have an opportunity to visit. Best wishes from Alabama USA😊💜
This reminds me a little of the room I stayed in in St Petersburg when going to Smolny for 3 weeks, so it was very cool and nostalgic to see, but also neat to see it more modernized with the wifi and stuff.
My job lets me see many apartment buildings in Germany and in general there are not that different. We also have many of these buildings with 2-3 apartments per floor in various heights. They look a bit more modern for the most time. these quality of squeaky wood floor is also very rare here 😄 But in the case of the electric outlets I can tell u, that this is absolutely a common number here, even in more modern apartments. and we also use a lot of these Multi socket adapter things. I count 10 of these in my apartment 😅 Oh and I have also seen exactly these kind of storage cabinets in more or less the same place over here. can’t say a number but they are really not unusual to see.
Mine doesn't look more modern. 😂 Including squeaky floors and technical installations from the Fifties with only one or two electrical outlets per room. My gas stove is very likely older than me (51). Not complaining, I'm glad to have a place I can call my own, but as everywhere it depends on what you can afford.
Hello again friend 👋✌. Very interesting seeing a typical Russian apartment. I love to see the everyday life in the beautiful country of Russia and you do a fantastic job showing and explaining everything very nicely. Im surprised to hear that certain places in China have no indoor radiators or heat. And the soviet style heaters are very funny looking to me lol. Cant wait for your next video. Until next time friend, much love from Massachusetts USA 👋✌❤
Hello Niki! I am a big fan, following you here, TikTok and Instagram. You answered to some of my comments on RUclips and TikTok but you probably don't remember me. Just wanted to say keep up the amazing work, because I love the content and how much effort you put into the videos. Thanks for recording those, they always make my day. Regards from Poland!
@@NikiProshin Yes, expect me to comment more of your videos, because I will be waiting to watch anything you post. And I noticed that you made a TikTok and livestream in this apartment
Very interesting video, Niki! It was very informative and it gives a good perspective of Russian apartments. This apartment is almost exactly the same as my grandma's apartment in Illichevsk, Ukraine (aka Chornomorsk nowadays).
My babushka also kept frying pans in the oven. Also in those days many homes did not have bedroom closets so they had free standing "wardrobes" for storing clothes & linens. They are still available in antique furniture shops and are very expensive. I love radiator heat, so warm & cozy but now only used in much older buildings in U.S. Everything now is electric or natural gas forced air heating...not cozy, not as efficient. We call those curtains "Sheers" (Pron: Sheerz) because they are thin and allow sunlight in. I cannot use them because my cats like to climb. 😸 I like the Japanese practice of showering off the dirt & oils from your skin first before relaxing in a nice warm bath. That way you don't end up soaking in dirty water. My family has a tradition of always buying a "hostess" gift when staying in a rental. Just some small useful item we purchase and donate to the apartment as a thank you gift for the owners & future rentors. Not a very common practice in U.S. but I think very considerate. Love your videos 😊
We use surge protectors as we have too few outlets too. My house was built in 1972. You get 6 to 8 outlets in each room. My dad is upgrading his house and putting quad outlets on each wall instead. We have so many electrical things these days! Great video.
The kitchen part real hits me. Individual Kitchen is really the big innovation of Khrushchev building. It is only with family kitchen each family started to have privacy. Family members started to feel safe to speak about their true feeling without worrying about KGB spies or ear drop from neighbors
Niki, I hope you have a Merry Christmas. Of course it is over here in America and I think it comes in January in Russia. Last night we had a TV show Christmas All Over The World. While many countries were represented, Moscow was the most beautiful city represented anywhere! It stole the show. The apartment in this video looked very livable for one or two people. I see it is snowing tonight in Moscow while we have temperatures of 23°C and we ate outside. I miss having snow for Christmas.
Moscow is a very beautiful place in winter, indeed. They improve the decorations every year, and it looks so so so good! Especially around the Red Square. Happy holidays to you!
Hi Niki! I’m watching this video nearly two years after it was posted and have to say You’ve come a LONG way baby! Audio is poor but video is okay. 😂 It’s good to see one of your old haunts but I’m glad you are able to upgrade now. Keep up the good work!
This looks so cozy and your presentation is truly inspiring! In Bulgaria we have very similar buildings. I absolutely love the one I grew up in. Those buildings were affordable to my grandparents and parents. I can tell you that in British Columbia, Canada were I live apartments or any kind of accommodations are not affordable. There are many homeless people because the people born in Canada can’t afford their living anymore! Young people can never buy a place!
The kitchen looks very similar in style to my grandparents' and great aunt's homes that I remember in my childhood. Their homes would probably have been built in the 1930s to 1940s. Their homes had the mesh or lace curtains, and, instead of the radiator, there was an electric wall heater. They lived in Los Angeles
Thank you for the tour. It was graceouse to invite us into your home. The essentials are their and some minimitist in the U.S. are acturally going in your direction. Of course, the obition to go back and forth makes all the difference. I wish you could visit us. We are a mixed bag, be it in living styles or politocal choices. Thanks for your videos. I do hope you see ours.
Late, but: The “boiler” in the toilet room in that apartment is called a “hot water heater” in the US. Everyone has one in their house / apartment because our cities don’t provide us with hot water. We just get a cold water line in from the city (or a well in rural areas) and we branch off of that pipe to a hot water heater. That device that connects to the TV is what we Americans call a “cable box”. In the US, we have “antenna TV” and “cable TV”. Antenna TV used to come through an analog antenna but it is digital now, and it’s always free. Just need a TV and a digital antenna. Some modern TVs have the antenna built in even. Cable TV comes through a coaxial cable and is a service you have to pay for through a cable company. Used to, the coaxial cable hooked directly to the TV but people figured out how to steal cable TV from the utility poles, so they gave us the cable boxes like you showed here. Those have some kind of a chip in them that prevents theft of cable service.
They call them net curtains in the UK, they have been popular a long time ago, and gone out of fashion more like in 80s-90s, but still can find them in asian shops, and what i noticed, there is a lot in common things between russia and asia - like floral patterns, net curtains, Asian style rugs etc). x
It's so interesting, it looks almost exactly like my old home (flat from the 50s I think) which is based in Warsaw, Poland. I didn't have a boiler cause the water was from heat and power station located in the city, but overall it looks the same!
This is why I always choose airbnb over hotels while travelling. Only way to truly experience a country is to live among the population instead of staying in some kind of a Hotel bubble that looks the same regardless where you happen to be. Love this apartment!
Good video Niki. Very interesting and informative. I see you are from Siberia. My neighbors in Canada she is Russian from Siberia and he is Ukrainian. The wife's parents have visited before and say our climate/trees/land reminds them quite a bit of home which makes some sense as similar latitudes. I'm in Calgary in Canada for reference.
@@NikiProshin Such water heaters are so common here, I can't imagine how else one would get hot water. :D That's why I'm so fascinated with Russian central boiler systems. Watch out--if you use all the hot water in the tank, your shower will suddenly turn cold!
I think those curtains are called "sheers" in USA. They are very old style, some still use. I have not seen curtains or sheers in our home since I was a baby...we use blinds/shades, there are many styles. The look is sleek and modern. Makes a HUGE difference in home decor.
The “teapot” is actually called kettle. Я постоянно ошибку в английском делаю, путая kettle и teapot. Потому что на русском оба чайники. Teapot это без электричества и не идет на плиту. Kettle нагревается, либо элементом внутри, либо ставится на плитку для нагревания. You’re welcome! 😉
I always am amazed at Russian apartments. In North America we do not separate toilet from bathtub/shower and sink. To me, this gives a feeling of more space. Plus, we use them together. Your kitchen seems good but the living room feels claustrophobic (as well the toilet). I understand that in Vancouver CANADA the apartments are getting very claustrophobic as well. People accept that because there is nothing else to rent. Thx for giving us a bird's eye view.
Hi Niki - I think I saw you with Konstantin last night with Inside Russia? This video was a year ago. Whoever would have thought such changes would have happened in such a short space of time. Blessings, dear boy! 🎉
In Japan, you have a shower and a tub. Japanese people usually take a bath before a shower. The tub is usually heated too. I thought that was interesting since I am part Japanese.
The curtain is called Lace curtains in English. The layout and some of the things in this apartment, like the weird pipe radiator in the bathroom are very familiar to me. i've played 2 horror games set in an old Russian apartment. I thought the bathroom radiator was a towel rack lol
Wow it's so clean in that apartment. I like your videos. I enjoy watching them all. I'm just amazed at how clean everything is kind of here in the United States where I live you just don't see that kind of stuff everything is usually dirty and filthy. I'm kind of a clean fanatic so that's what I really noticed most about that apartment tour you guys how clean the hallways in the building were and how clean that apartment was
Oh my goodness ... where do you live? I've lived in 3 states and even where I visited, the apartments and homes are neat and clean. More like what you see in the majority of tv shows.
I think this video is fascinating! I was fun to imagine living in that apartment--well, not fun exactly, but thought-provoking. It looked very cramped and dreary. I also wondered how noise-insulated the apartment was. Could you hear everything that went on next-door?
Я выросла в трехкомнатной хрущевке. Звукоизоляция хорошая. И ещё, эти квартиры оооочень оооочень тёплые. В морозы часто открывали и открываем форточки. Чугунные батареи прекрасно отдают тепло .
The cabinet in the bedroom is called a wardrobe. The see through curtains are called net curtains and the additional electrical sockets on a wire, are called extension leads. The folding tables were common in my parents time, and their modern equivalent can still be found today in smaller flats. In the UK, apartments are called flats.
Looks just like houses in India except the bathtub and that instrument for TV is called Set top box in India. So much similarities between India and Russia.
For $14, this would be a FAR more better housing option than 75% of what's in the world. It's kind of sad we don't see such a good priced option in most parts of the world.
Love the videos, NIiki! In the US at least we call that fabric of curtain, sheer. The word is also used pretty often with makeup such lipsticks and eyeshadow. I know every country has its quirks.
there are similar appartments in Pärnu but they are litter bigger and when you walk on the floor they dont make noise they are quite nice i have only seen three appartments in pärnu my cousins family apparments and two of my aunts and theyr families
I hate when people store extra pots/pans in the oven.. My wife used to do this until I got her to stop. If i'm going to cook something in the oven, the first thing I usually do is preheat it. And I don't usually look inside of it first, becasue I assume it's going to be empty.
Boiler at 40???? WHAT!!! We keep it at 75 due to bacteria and hot water last longer before it's cold. Also, I remember our apartments having radiators in the -70s. "This thing bringing TV channels..", can be called the decoder.
hehehe, yeah i remember winter in China and no radiator.... 🥶 which part of China did u visit Niki? ^^😊... oh and yeah, I still remember the bathtub which i miraculously had, but like I stepped into it and it was ... how should I say it? ... kinda wobbly and not firm like you'd expect a bathtub to be lol
I hear wild animals passing my house every night. Also those attacked by other wildlife. Are usually indoors before sunset. Haven't had time for Russia tours as are changing my indoor conditions from summer to winter. Clean gas heating system, filters, drains, and firearms.
I’m Swedish so have radiators at home and also have my hot water coming from the same central facility that heats up the buildings, so I do not have a boiler at home. I have visited China as well, my ex husband is originally from China so I went there to visit my then in-laws a few times, and my first visit was in wintertime over the holidays. I was in the Shanghai area so pretty south and no central heating, but I honestly didn’t have a problem with it because the air conditioner was very effective at heating up a room within minutes of starting the unit, and I am someone who does tend to feel cold a lot. Even here at home in Sweden I’m often found under two blankets even though I’m only about a meter away from my big radiator that’s probably about 2 meters long and is actually double as well so it’s two long radiators together with some space between them and a grid on top that is like 10cm wide. My building was originally built in the first half of the 1970’s but was completely renovated and modernized a few years ago (finished in late 2019) I lived in another identical building before the renovations and there I only had one of the long radiators instead of like here with two, but even the one radiator worked pretty well at keeping the room warm. One thing I find pretty interesting with Soviet style apartments has to be the claustrophobic toilets in many of them, it would just be so much easier to knock down the wall and have one big bathroom with the toilet in the same room. In my bathroom here at home I have the shower in left corner, then the sink and toilet next to the sink, one room for all the hygiene needs! I have lived in buildings with Soviet style kitchens though, Denmark are the same, I don’t know what’s with Denmark and their obsession with only having one sink in the kitchen! Any proper kitchen should have two sinks so you can both wash your dishes and rinse them at the same time! I have two large sinks in my kitchen and that’s even though I have a full size dish washer. The one thing I don’t have at home is my own washing machine and dryer, there is just not space for it as I live in a 42m2 one room apartment, but at least I have a very big kitchen in relation to the overall size of my home, my kitchen alone is about 12m2, living room/bedroom is about 20m2 and the remaining is divided between bathroom, entrance area and a walk in closet. Totally loving my kitchen because I have so much counter space and storage, and enough room for a large dining table that can easily and comfortably fit 4 people around it by default, but up to 6 people if using extra chairs and pulling the table out from the wall a bit, 5 if just using an extra chair without moving the table
@@sodinc Yeah, makes manual dishwashing so much easier. Or use one side for putting away dirty dishes while cooking and the other for rinsing off veggies or peeling potatoes etc all without having to find counter space for any extra containers
@@sodinc Convenience. Heck, I felt lost in Denmark with just one sink, and ended up washing dishes under running water because of it. If washing dishes with two sinks there’s one side for the dishwater and the other side to quickly rinse off dishes to get rid of any dishwashing soap
Not gonna lie, I kinda like the idea of living in an apartment that size, is it affordable? The small features of the apartment make it feel somewhat homey!
The electric is very wasteful. In New York City, that's a blimp hangar compared to many apartments. There's a lot of compartmentation with the wasteful halls and rooms. An apartment with one of room is a studio. Dutch style houses have no halls.
this appartment look like a lot the one i used to live in france, it was "HLM" that mean cheap socialist french appartment, but all the furniture and everything was brought from where my family used to live, soviet armenia, its funny how i have the same old dlink wifi router and i got it by a friend from belarus that send it to me as present for my birthday
Lemme know if you want to see how my old apartment looks like! and don't forget to like this video :) if helps my channel to grow.
Happy holidays everyone!
Yess
Yes please
XDD THATS NOT A RADIATOR!!?!?? XDXD thats a RADI....thats an R at best....XD its THREE little thingies? :P how does that qualify for anything XDDD
you look rich, what do you work??
Heck yeah, son !
Waw, it looks exactly like in Romania. The soviet russian culture influenced us more that I thought. Not really a fan of this kind of architecture and lifestyle... but your nice energy make it look decent.
Well the Soviet style was supposed to house the most people with the least amount of space. The housing might not be beautiful but it is cheap!
Seeing those severe Soviet apartment complexes next to the old Romanian homes and buildings is quite something tho. Like the Soviets showed up someplace that hadnt really changed in hundreds of years, dumped some buildings down and then left. And everyone’s like “huh. That was weird.”
The same Slovakia and Czech Republic. For instance in Prague we have 1.1 milion citizens while ~ 30-35 % live in such block of flats either built in early 60s, up to new series built after Velvet revolution in 1989. Some districts are built mostly using only those block of flats like Bohnice, Jižní Město (largest one about 100k people), Sídliště Petřiny / Červený Vrch, Zahradní Město (oldest ones)
Yeah it is true
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
NOT IT'S NOT LIKE IN ROMANIA AT ALL! 😡😡😡 ROMANIAN COMMIE BLOCKS ARE MUCH MORE DIVERSE AND MUCH MORE SPACIOUS, COMPARED TO SOVIET BLOCKS!
WHERE THE F... DID YOU CRAWL OUT OF...??! 😳
GET SOME INFO BEFORE COMMENTING! 🤬🤬🤬🤬
BAGAMI-AS PULAAAAAAAAA...!!!! 😤
Looks OK to me
It is a treasure to have your first person family connection to older culture. The "young culture" is worldwide, in many respects. When you share your babushka with us, you connect your deep Russian heritage to your video family. Thank you, Niki. 🙂
A fun fact: when I filmed my babushka, I learned a lot from and about her. It's also interesting for me :) thanks. Steven, and happy new year!
Really like the new presentation of Russian flashcards in the bottom left, it helps with learning new Russian vocabulary :) Anyway you are right, for central heating and radiators in apartments in China, the territory is divided between northern and southern China along the traditional Qinling-Huaihe line (秦岭淮河), and only northern China gets central heating in their apartments, where the temperature regularly falls below -40C, -30C is not uncommon in Harbin and also below -10C is also common in other regions of China. It has been like that for 60 years, and the reason was because "it is a waste of energy to provide central heating for the south". However most of southern China does get quite cold during the winter too, compared to other areas of the world at similar latitude because of the Siberian anticyclone. Last winter almost all of China fell below 0C except for the southernmost subtropical region like Hainan. There is a joke that southern Chinese are left to freeze in their apartments during the cold winter whereas the northern Chinese are able to enjoy ice cream in the comfortable warmth of their home.
Also I stayed in khrushchyovka twice, once in Kyiv and again in Vladivostok. It was a cool experience for a foreigner 8) Definitely an integral part of getting to know about soviet lifestyle
I remember my first winter is a mid-south city in China. The coldest temperature was about 0 degrees Celsius and I was wearing a sweater and a coat at home to stay warm. I tried to use AC to heat my room, but it barely had any result and cost too much money. Later on I switched to small radiators. It was such a weird experience after Russian winters
When I lived in Beijing, the heat to the radiators would be turned on centrally, and not according to the outside temperatures, but according to the calendar, regardless of the weather. If it was still cold after the date when heat was shut off, you just had to bundle up and hope for spring to come faster! I got used to it after a few years, but when a late snowstorm hit while my Indian friend was visiting, he shivered with disbelief in my cold apartment! Later that week, we visited the apartment of a friend of his, who happened to belong to the CCP and lived in special Party-only housing, and his apartment felt like a sauna, by comparison. He confessed to us that he got two extra weeks of heat as a perk! I think my friend seriously considered joining the party in that moment. :D
Fascinating tour Niki. I was surprised to recognise many things from growing up in the UK in the 1960s/1970s. A small kitchen, with free standing cooker. Cupboards with aluminium extruded handles. Fairy Liquid on the sink. Old enamelware with the rim in a darker colour. And to top it all a rack of utensils on the wall with 2-tone handles - with a potato masher!
My aunt's apartment had exactly this layout. It seemed to be bigger when I was a child. We managed to feed up to 5 people in that tiny kitchen. 😜
I enjoyed seeing Mr. TV and His Majesty the Balcony..very cute Niki! 😊❤🎉
Thanks for sharing. May we all live in peace together! 🙂
This one is one of my favorites. And I learned a lot of new words in Russian while watching it, which I especially appreciate.
I’ve only recently discovered your channel and am enjoying learning about life in your country. It’s fascinating. Thank you so much for sharing your time and efforts with those of us who probably won’t have an opportunity to visit. Best wishes from Alabama USA😊💜
I found you in my feed . I really enjoy seeing your country. I hope we all find our way to peace. Good luck 🍀
This reminds me a little of the room I stayed in in St Petersburg when going to Smolny for 3 weeks, so it was very cool and nostalgic to see, but also neat to see it more modernized with the wifi and stuff.
I find your videos so interesting! I love getting to see more of Russian culture and daily life. Thank you 😊
My job lets me see many apartment buildings in Germany and in general there are not that different.
We also have many of these buildings with 2-3 apartments per floor in various heights.
They look a bit more modern for the most time.
these quality of squeaky wood floor is also very rare here 😄
But in the case of the electric outlets I can tell u, that this is absolutely a common number here, even in more modern apartments. and we also use a lot of these Multi socket adapter things.
I count 10 of these in my apartment 😅
Oh and I have also seen exactly these kind of storage cabinets in more or less the same place over here. can’t say a number but they are really not unusual to see.
Mine doesn't look more modern. 😂 Including squeaky floors and technical installations from the Fifties with only one or two electrical outlets per room. My gas stove is very likely older than me (51). Not complaining, I'm glad to have a place I can call my own, but as everywhere it depends on what you can afford.
My apt in East Berlin looked pretty similar to this except the living room was converted to a bedroom since it was student accommodation
Merry Christmas, Niki!
Lovely video! I love the cosy, friendly, and welcoming atmosphere you create no matter the topic. =)
Happy holidays, Adrian! Thank you :)
The sound when you film from the front camera is a little bit low, but everything else is perfect! That apartment really look like yours :)
Aha, you still remember that! I wish to see my apartment in a better shape next year!
Hello again friend 👋✌. Very interesting seeing a typical Russian apartment. I love to see the everyday life in the beautiful country of Russia and you do a fantastic job showing and explaining everything very nicely. Im surprised to hear that certain places in China have no indoor radiators or heat. And the soviet style heaters are very funny looking to me lol. Cant wait for your next video. Until next time friend, much love from Massachusetts USA 👋✌❤
Thank you! Glad to be such a window for you to life in Russia :)
A language lesson combined with an apartment tour...cool cool! )))
Did you learn any new words? :)
@@NikiProshin да конечно, много новые слова
Hello Niki! I am a big fan, following you here, TikTok and Instagram. You answered to some of my comments on RUclips and TikTok but you probably don't remember me. Just wanted to say keep up the amazing work, because I love the content and how much effort you put into the videos. Thanks for recording those, they always make my day. Regards from Poland!
Thank you for being everywhere :D So glad that you enjoy watching the stuff I film. Greetings from Russia!
@@NikiProshin Yes, expect me to comment more of your videos, because I will be waiting to watch anything you post. And I noticed that you made a TikTok and livestream in this apartment
Very interesting video, Niki! It was very informative and it gives a good perspective of Russian apartments. This apartment is almost exactly the same as my grandma's apartment in Illichevsk, Ukraine (aka Chornomorsk nowadays).
My babushka also kept frying pans in the oven. Also in those days many homes did not have bedroom closets so they had free standing "wardrobes" for storing clothes & linens. They are still available in antique furniture shops and are very expensive. I love radiator heat, so warm & cozy but now only used in much older buildings in U.S. Everything now is electric or natural gas forced air heating...not cozy, not as efficient. We call those curtains "Sheers" (Pron: Sheerz) because they are thin and allow sunlight in. I cannot use them because my cats like to climb. 😸 I like the Japanese practice of showering off the dirt & oils from your skin first before relaxing in a nice warm bath. That way you don't end up soaking in dirty water. My family has a tradition of always buying a "hostess" gift when staying in a rental. Just some small useful item we purchase and donate to the apartment as a thank you gift for the owners & future rentors. Not a very common practice in U.S. but I think very considerate. Love your videos 😊
We use surge protectors as we have too few outlets too. My house was built in 1972. You get 6 to 8 outlets in each room. My dad is upgrading his house and putting quad outlets on each wall instead. We have so many electrical things these days! Great video.
I love this post!! I like to learn how other people around the world live. You have a great sense of humor, as well.
The kitchen part real hits me. Individual Kitchen is really the big innovation of Khrushchev building. It is only with family kitchen each family started to have privacy. Family members started to feel safe to speak about their true feeling without worrying about KGB spies or ear drop from neighbors
Шпионов КГБ боялись только евреи,русских это не касалось,в 90 е годы они разрушили СССР и настал ад в стране.
Niki, I hope you have a Merry Christmas. Of course it is over here in America and I think it comes in January in Russia. Last night we had a TV show Christmas All Over The World. While many countries were represented, Moscow was the most beautiful city represented anywhere! It stole the show. The apartment in this video looked very livable for one or two people. I see it is snowing tonight in Moscow while we have temperatures of 23°C and we ate outside. I miss having snow for Christmas.
Moscow is a very beautiful place in winter, indeed. They improve the decorations every year, and it looks so so so good! Especially around the Red Square. Happy holidays to you!
Cool video. I also like the flash Clare on the side 👏🏼
This was fascinating. Thank you for that!
This video was really educational thank you and i look forward to more
Nice video Niki (Nikita?). Placeba. You are a personable young man. When you move the camera, do slowly, otherwise things blur. Hope you do more.
Hi Niki! I’m watching this video nearly two years after it was posted and have to say You’ve come a LONG way baby!
Audio is poor but video is okay. 😂
It’s good to see one of your old haunts but I’m glad you are able to upgrade now.
Keep up the good work!
ahahah love the location of the washing machine! it is artistically brilliant :D
Very nice! Everything a "civilized person" needs to live in comfortable style...
Thanks for yet annother nice video. :)
My pleasure!
This looks so cozy and your presentation is truly inspiring! In Bulgaria we have very similar buildings. I absolutely love the one I grew up in. Those buildings were affordable to my grandparents and parents. I can tell you that in British Columbia, Canada were I live apartments or any kind of accommodations are not affordable. There are many homeless people because the people born in Canada can’t afford their living anymore! Young people can never buy a place!
I think I have seen this apartment before haha, in a different city though!
I lived in this apartment before, in different different city :)
The kitchen looks very similar in style to my grandparents' and great aunt's homes that I remember in my childhood. Their homes would probably have been built in the 1930s to 1940s. Their homes had the mesh or lace curtains, and, instead of the radiator, there was an electric wall heater. They lived in Los Angeles
Just discovered your channel and love all your videos!! Greetings from Spain!
Nikki, i enjoy your vlog. You are a nice amiable person😊
Thank you for the tour. It was graceouse to invite us into your home. The essentials are their and some minimitist in the U.S. are acturally going in your direction. Of course, the obition to go back and forth makes all the difference. I wish you could visit us. We are a mixed bag, be it in living styles or politocal choices. Thanks for your videos. I do hope you see ours.
Late, but:
The “boiler” in the toilet room in that apartment is called a “hot water heater” in the US. Everyone has one in their house / apartment because our cities don’t provide us with hot water. We just get a cold water line in from the city (or a well in rural areas) and we branch off of that pipe to a hot water heater.
That device that connects to the TV is what we Americans call a “cable box”. In the US, we have “antenna TV” and “cable TV”. Antenna TV used to come through an analog antenna but it is digital now, and it’s always free. Just need a TV and a digital antenna. Some modern TVs have the antenna built in even. Cable TV comes through a coaxial cable and is a service you have to pay for through a cable company. Used to, the coaxial cable hooked directly to the TV but people figured out how to steal cable TV from the utility poles, so they gave us the cable boxes like you showed here. Those have some kind of a chip in them that prevents theft of cable service.
They call them net curtains in the UK, they have been popular a long time ago, and gone out of fashion more like in 80s-90s, but still can find them in asian shops, and what i noticed, there is a lot in common things between russia and asia - like floral patterns, net curtains, Asian style rugs etc). x
my mom just bought a NEW net curtain yesterday, lol
In the US we call such sheer curtains "sheers." Not very imaginative but it works!
@@mmw55122 As well in Canada
Тюль это уютно и красиво! Турция поставляет прекрасные тюли в Россию. Мы, русские покупаем эту красоту. Это вне моды! Это уют.
It's so interesting, it looks almost exactly like my old home (flat from the 50s I think) which is based in Warsaw, Poland. I didn't have a boiler cause the water was from heat and power station located in the city, but overall it looks the same!
i lovvee your videos on tiktok, amazing tour
This is why I always choose airbnb over hotels while travelling. Only way to truly experience a country is to live among the population instead of staying in some kind of a Hotel bubble that looks the same regardless where you happen to be. Love this apartment!
Thank you for sharing 🙏
in germany we have the same appartments as well. and they are good.
Good video Niki. Very interesting and informative. I see you are from Siberia. My neighbors in Canada she is Russian from Siberia and he is Ukrainian. The wife's parents have visited before and say our climate/trees/land reminds them quite a bit of home which makes some sense as similar latitudes. I'm in Calgary in Canada for reference.
Boiler: A pressure vessel, it turns water to steam. There is one connected to your radiator.
Water heater: Makes hot tap water ))
I haven't seen such a water heater in my life! (the one that makes hot tap water)
@@NikiProshin Such water heaters are so common here, I can't imagine how else one would get hot water. :D That's why I'm so fascinated with Russian central boiler systems. Watch out--if you use all the hot water in the tank, your shower will suddenly turn cold!
I think those curtains are called "sheers" in USA.
They are very old style, some still use.
I have not seen curtains or sheers in our home since I was a baby...we use blinds/shades, there are many styles. The look is sleek and modern. Makes a HUGE difference in home decor.
Very good video
The “teapot” is actually called kettle. Я постоянно ошибку в английском делаю, путая kettle и teapot. Потому что на русском оба чайники. Teapot это без электричества и не идет на плиту. Kettle нагревается, либо элементом внутри, либо ставится на плитку для нагревания. You’re welcome! 😉
I always am amazed at Russian apartments. In North America we do not separate toilet from bathtub/shower and sink. To me, this gives a feeling of more space. Plus, we use them together. Your kitchen seems good but the living room feels claustrophobic (as well the toilet). I understand that in Vancouver CANADA the apartments are getting very claustrophobic as well. People accept that because there is nothing else to rent. Thx for giving us a bird's eye view.
В квартире ГАЗ! ПОЭТОМУ КУХНЯ ОТДЕЛЬНО! ЭТО ТЕХНИКА БЕЗОПАСНОСТИ!
Hi Niki - I think I saw you with Konstantin last night with Inside Russia? This video was a year ago. Whoever would have thought such changes would have happened in such a short space of time. Blessings, dear boy! 🎉
In Japan, you have a shower and a tub. Japanese people usually take a bath before a shower. The tub is usually heated too. I thought that was interesting since I am part Japanese.
The curtain is called Lace curtains in English. The layout and some of the things in this apartment, like the weird pipe radiator in the bathroom are very familiar to me. i've played 2 horror games set in an old Russian apartment. I thought the bathroom radiator was a towel rack lol
6:40 - in the UK we call them net curtains - or for short, nets
We call those sheer curtains and if they have a pattern in them, embroided sheers.
How on earth am I nostalgic for a place I’ve never been?
Wow it's so clean in that apartment. I like your videos. I enjoy watching them all. I'm just amazed at how clean everything is kind of here in the United States where I live you just don't see that kind of stuff everything is usually dirty and filthy. I'm kind of a clean fanatic so that's what I really noticed most about that apartment tour you guys how clean the hallways in the building were and how clean that apartment was
It's janitors job to clean buildings inside.
Oh my goodness ... where do you live? I've lived in 3 states and even where I visited, the apartments and homes are neat and clean. More like what you see in the majority of tv shows.
I have exactly the same magnet from Moscow on my fridge, I got it in 2006 when I lived there for a year.
I think this video is fascinating! I was fun to imagine living in that apartment--well, not fun exactly, but thought-provoking. It looked very cramped and dreary. I also wondered how noise-insulated the apartment was. Could you hear everything that went on next-door?
Я выросла в трехкомнатной хрущевке. Звукоизоляция хорошая. И ещё, эти квартиры оооочень оооочень тёплые. В морозы часто открывали и открываем форточки. Чугунные батареи прекрасно отдают тепло .
Looks comfy
In Latvia we have lots of those kind of homes and some of them is in great condition
My grandmas apartment doesn’t have the little hallway thing, surprisingly.
One thing I immediately noticed, is how every apartment has put different kind of front door. Something that would never happen in Finland
The cabinet in the bedroom is called a wardrobe. The see through curtains are called net curtains and the additional electrical sockets on a wire, are called extension leads. The folding tables were common in my parents time, and their modern equivalent can still be found today in smaller flats. In the UK, apartments are called flats.
В России эти шторы, называются - тюль.
The device at TV is a set-top box (STB).
the curtain is called sheer curtain, the boiler is called Hot water tank in USA
Hello, thank you for sharing some vocabulary in Russian 😊
Looks just like houses in India except the bathtub and that instrument for TV is called Set top box in India. So much similarities between India and Russia.
In the u s, dont usually have a place to sit in the hall! Some houses have a so called mudroom to store coats, boots, etc, but not many have it.
In spain old blocks from 60s to 90s are really similar, almost exactly the same.
Your English is very good.
Hugs from USA 🇺🇲
Terrifying to see the net curtains, almost touching the cooker😮
Dawn from Australia Im old enough to be your nanna, but Im enjoying your post
Cute socks!
For $14, this would be a FAR more better housing option than 75% of what's in the world. It's kind of sad we don't see such a good priced option in most parts of the world.
Love the videos, NIiki! In the US at least we call that fabric of curtain, sheer. The word is also used pretty often with makeup such lipsticks and eyeshadow. I know every country has its quirks.
Looks like the east end of Glasgow around 1972
there are similar appartments in Pärnu but they are litter bigger and when you walk on the floor they dont make noise they are quite nice i have only seen three appartments in pärnu my cousins family apparments and two of my aunts and theyr families
Well that was depressing. I would like to see what typical hotels look like.
I hate when people store extra pots/pans in the oven.. My wife used to do this until I got her to stop. If i'm going to cook something in the oven, the first thing I usually do is preheat it. And I don't usually look inside of it first, becasue I assume it's going to be empty.
Cute apartment. 😊
Boiler at 40???? WHAT!!!
We keep it at 75 due to bacteria and hot water last longer before it's cold.
Also, I remember our apartments having radiators in the -70s.
"This thing bringing TV channels..", can be called the decoder.
Thats 100 years back...OmG...poor people
I kept thinking the stove is too close to the kitchen. The curtains will catch fire.
hehehe, yeah i remember winter in China and no radiator.... 🥶 which part of China did u visit Niki? ^^😊... oh and yeah, I still remember the bathtub which i miraculously had, but like I stepped into it and it was ... how should I say it? ... kinda wobbly and not firm like you'd expect a bathtub to be lol
I hear wild animals passing my house every night. Also those attacked by other wildlife.
Are usually indoors before sunset. Haven't had time for Russia tours as are changing my
indoor conditions from summer to winter. Clean gas heating system, filters, drains, and
firearms.
I’m Swedish so have radiators at home and also have my hot water coming from the same central facility that heats up the buildings, so I do not have a boiler at home. I have visited China as well, my ex husband is originally from China so I went there to visit my then in-laws a few times, and my first visit was in wintertime over the holidays. I was in the Shanghai area so pretty south and no central heating, but I honestly didn’t have a problem with it because the air conditioner was very effective at heating up a room within minutes of starting the unit, and I am someone who does tend to feel cold a lot. Even here at home in Sweden I’m often found under two blankets even though I’m only about a meter away from my big radiator that’s probably about 2 meters long and is actually double as well so it’s two long radiators together with some space between them and a grid on top that is like 10cm wide. My building was originally built in the first half of the 1970’s but was completely renovated and modernized a few years ago (finished in late 2019) I lived in another identical building before the renovations and there I only had one of the long radiators instead of like here with two, but even the one radiator worked pretty well at keeping the room warm.
One thing I find pretty interesting with Soviet style apartments has to be the claustrophobic toilets in many of them, it would just be so much easier to knock down the wall and have one big bathroom with the toilet in the same room. In my bathroom here at home I have the shower in left corner, then the sink and toilet next to the sink, one room for all the hygiene needs!
I have lived in buildings with Soviet style kitchens though, Denmark are the same, I don’t know what’s with Denmark and their obsession with only having one sink in the kitchen! Any proper kitchen should have two sinks so you can both wash your dishes and rinse them at the same time! I have two large sinks in my kitchen and that’s even though I have a full size dish washer. The one thing I don’t have at home is my own washing machine and dryer, there is just not space for it as I live in a 42m2 one room apartment, but at least I have a very big kitchen in relation to the overall size of my home, my kitchen alone is about 12m2, living room/bedroom is about 20m2 and the remaining is divided between bathroom, entrance area and a walk in closet. Totally loving my kitchen because I have so much counter space and storage, and enough room for a large dining table that can easily and comfortably fit 4 people around it by default, but up to 6 people if using extra chairs and pulling the table out from the wall a bit, 5 if just using an extra chair without moving the table
Why do you need to have 2 sinks to wash and rinse dishes at the same time?
@@sodinc Yeah, makes manual dishwashing so much easier. Or use one side for putting away dirty dishes while cooking and the other for rinsing off veggies or peeling potatoes etc all without having to find counter space for any extra containers
@@ReyOfLight my question was "why?"
@@sodinc Convenience. Heck, I felt lost in Denmark with just one sink, and ended up washing dishes under running water because of it. If washing dishes with two sinks there’s one side for the dishwater and the other side to quickly rinse off dishes to get rid of any dishwashing soap
@@ReyOfLight ahhh, now i understand. I always wash everything under running water, it is cleaner that way
Not gonna lie, I kinda like the idea of living in an apartment that size, is it affordable? The small features of the apartment make it feel somewhat homey!
Great content! So its not true what propaganda news are saying about outdoor toilets and sewage system? Please let me know!
No we are not in Africa 😁😆
Wow it's interesting how eastern European apartments are so similar I'm Romanian and my apartment is basically the same as this one
Eastern Germany has similar concrete buildings, the layout is a little bit different though.
The host watching this video 👁👄👁
Haha, hope she won't
Americans have no idea how good we have it lol wowwwwwww
Wonder how they'd get the washer machine out when it breaks 🤔
Sheer curtain. If you open the widow it keeps the bugs out. They had in US too.
Can we just say his English accent is so good
The electric is very wasteful. In New York City, that's a blimp hangar compared to many apartments. There's a lot of compartmentation with the wasteful halls and rooms. An apartment with one of room is a studio. Dutch style houses have no halls.
this appartment look like a lot the one i used to live in france, it was "HLM" that mean cheap socialist french appartment, but all the furniture and everything was brought from where my family used to live, soviet armenia, its funny how i have the same old dlink wifi router and i got it by a friend from belarus that send it to me as present for my birthday