Typical Soviet Apartment in Kazakhstan | After Russian Sanction Back to USSR | 2022

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Ever wonder what an old Soviet apartment is like?
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Hi guys, here is a tour of a typical Soviet apartment in the center of Almaty (Kazakhstan). The Soviet building is called Khrushchyovka, that is, a five-story building. The playground and the surrounding area have already been upgraded, but the apartment itself looks very old and needs additional repairs. This video is a clear idea of Soviet apartment things, starting with kitchen equipment and ending with balcony things.
In truth, the rise in price may lead to people starting to move into apartments like this, because they are cheaper than others. I hope you enjoyed watching this video.

[@CrazyRussianSergey]

I’m an expert is Soviet Apartments and I give this apartment 9/10.

[@TheDoomFan2004]

I give 9/11

[@leroyleach7581]

sweet girl...pleasant personality...that's the good part of this video...the apt is BLAH(American expression for ugly)...honestly, this apartment and building would bring on MASSIVE depression in 5 minutes.

[@fortyfour6626]

Apartment? I got mesmerized by the girl for some reason.

[@teresaromero8655]

Really ???

[@joeysasscheeks5215]

@@leroyleach7581Americans when they realize other countries have different styles 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@alimay1011]

I loved this peak into the Soviet-era apartment. Fantastic to see everything as it was. Also great time to produce this video. I felt sorry for the lady who could not fly back to Leningrad but she seemed quite happy to stay in Kazakhstan for a while. Your presenting skills are fantastic. Great idea to trace the patterns on the walls to get to sleep & so cute to interview the cats. I would choose the old Soviet apartment and redecorate it and dust it. The balcony would be a great place to have an indoor garden.

[@CesaresChannel]

Great video! I done a similar Soviet apartment tour on my channel in Belarus 🇧🇾 I find it fascinating how every ex Soviet country have identical apartment blocks. Strangely I am a huge fan of Soviet architecture 😍

[@mantasalgorythm4809]

i live in a soviet aprtment just like that

[@leannevuellon5963]

Greetings from Suriname in South America . . . It's interesting to know more about the life of other countries and their culture

[@SoloSailing77]

New subscriber from Michigan, USA. I love learning about different cultures. Looking forward to watching more video's! Glad to meet you!

[@albin2232]

A lovely trip down memory lane 😍. One could easily make an apartment like that cosy and homely, even though it is not modern. Best wishes from Colin in Edinburgh 🇬🇧

[@notoriousfly9260]

Not sure if that’s the case in a communist world.

[@HoBoeBpeM9l]

​@@notoriousfly9260 не уверен, что это так в капиталистическом мире

[@jcben]

Great video. Nice to see a KZbinr from Kazakhstan, I wish you great success

[@maurizioo.9655]

Nice video, keep going ! The ladies you interviewed are very sweet and one of them gave you a smart advice about the mortage

[@htpesetes8574]

I am from romania and the flats look the same

[@001looker]

In US that mop is called cuban mop. The reason why it's called Cuban mop is cubans in Florida often use it to clean the floor. You were looking for a word rag to put on the stick. Hispanics also tend to use this type of mop.

[@muratomar6502]

Usually old people are living in such kind of apartment...

[@wiv2631]

You are a pleasant and interesting hostess. Thank you for the tour of both apartments and the explanation of how the household items are used.

[@danielwonderley6817]

That’s very interesting like stepping back in time!

[@GabrielTheGlobalCitizen]

Great video! Great presentation and video quality. It is entertaining to watch, and very informative. Thank you for the video. The cat 😆😆

[@Spanish_Patriot]

I had never seen what Soviet apartments look like. They are modest but decent provided they are modernized and well maintained. In my country they take months to build apartments, maybe they should take in some Soviet advisors? 😂 Thanks for the tour!

[@jjhonecker7644]

👀👀👀👀ВИЛКИ

[@maetube2486]

i like your vlogs.... congratulations !

[@j.b.4340]

It’s like a museum tour. I enjoyed it.

[@j.b.4340]

@8:10😁

[@HeavenlyRainPath]

I love these videos. I live in America but I feel if I had lived in Russia I would have been surrounded by love and acceptance. I would be ok living in an apt like that. So many people living in close proximity. So many people to meet. It gives me warm cozy feelings.

[@zulfaalfa222]

Idk why, but i had little bit obsession on this kind of building. Like old Soviet stuffs is always cool

[@maccrafting3935]

nice video mate, many of those things where used also in Italy by italian babusca. My grandma was not exception.

[@SRFMLY1975]

Videos are great, really interesting to watch. I was in an apartment for many years, moved to the house for my youngest son, he is autistic so too much noise etc bothered him, he settled well into the house with the garden, I have a few close neighbours here who all look out for each other but I do miss my apartment at times, lots of neighbours and children playing all the time :)

[@michaelwilson2419]

Thank you for the most outstanding documentary and history I have seen in a long time. I could really feel all the history and culture in those lovely vintage apartments. I would love living there rather than modern apartments. Can you "own" an apartment like that or just rent? If you can own it I think here we call it a condominium. Right now here in NY /US housing costs have increased a lot this past year...both homes and apartments. Gas has skyrocketed. Food prices going up. Everything going up. The US is becoming very difficult with all the high prices. You are better off in Kazakhstan. Just my opinion. I think you should be a real estate agent...you will become a millionaire! Have a nice day and thanks again.

[@Dion-us4de]

I love your chanel. Lots of love from Australia

[@online2000.]

I had that same exact elephant picture and that fruit square cable cloth in my old childhood house 🤯🤯 I live in Canada! Crazy! Maybe it belonged to my family

[@juztnlast953]

The apartment looks like it can be easily refurbished if you sanded the wood window frames and wood trims and repainted, a little patience and care. The outside of the building the apartment renters can organize themselves to take care of the grass and pick up the litter and plant small decorative plantings that would help the place. I would love to live in a restored older building in the center of the city for sure, not in the suburbs. So long as the area is safe and has no problems with infestations.

[@aighali8662]

Who has counted how many times the word “kind of” was repeated ?

[@Jesusandbible]

I enjoyed this. so homey. Thanks !

[@JAMESHANGLUNG-km4ru]

I really love the soviet style, cute thank you.

[@lukasj.800]

In Czech republic are plastic bottle caps (from PET bottles) gathered for charity. People can gather a huge amount of this material, but purchase price for this material isn't high (approx. 7 CZK/1kg -> 0,31 USD/1kg).

[@meralodem]

In Turkey they buy wheelchairs with those caps

[@blueseaev]

Beautiful and cozy apartment!

[@Alin-yb1zl]

In Romania this was a typical kitchen in 90' and first years in 2000, exactly the same 😊

[@terrylynn9984]

So basically this was a tour of an apartment with vintage items, much of which is probably better made then the mass produced items of today. I am a Gen Xer who loves any and all vintage. The oldest item in my home is a family photo album from the 1860s and a quilt made by my great great grandmother who died in 1934. My kitchen is decorated with chrome chairs from the 1950s, curtains from the 1970s, my canister set and bread box were my mothers from the 1970s. Rest of my decor is definitely 1950s to 1960s for knick knacks. Very cool apartment looks affordable, and warm. Many in Canada who cannot find affordable living spaces, many who are homeless would love this small apartment . Ooh and the violet blanket in the living room looks similar in style to the one my grandfather made in the 1940s when he worked at a Woolen mill in Ontario, Canada. The blanket is most likely made of wool as well. I have the blanket displayed on a quilt rack in my bedroom. If a russian grandma lives there, I noticed her fridge was empty of food, I hope that is not a sign she is struggling to afford food😥

[@travelwithbalnur]

Thank you for your comment, Russian babushka owns this flat and only gives for renting, while she lives with her son.

[@terrylynn9984]

@@travelwithbalnur one smart lady, ❤, sadly we have alot of homeless in Canada, these small apartments would be like a dream come true for them.

[@ironmikemaline]

@@travelwithbalnur Are you chinese living in Russia? You look chinese but you don't sound chinese.

[@gianttommi1]

Thank you and well done. I live in Germany in a House from 1938. After the renovation of the flat in 2013 it costs me the same amount of money like you in Almaty. 429 Euro for 46 m2 without gas and energy. I think it is to much for everyday kazakh people, isnt it.

[@DoubleDogDare54]

Had to laugh at the old analog TV. "Very difficult"? I remember when that was ALL anyone here in the US had. You had an antenna on the house and got one (rural area) channel or maybe 3 to 5 channels (in city or suburbs). That was it. I never saw color TV until the mid '60s or a remote until the early '80s. Otherwise if you wanted to change channels, you got off your butt, walked to the TV and changed the channel manually. Nobody thought that was "difficult"! 🙂

[@Night1]

Я как будто к себе в квартиру зашёл 😁😁😁 Классное видео)

[@Kof_Believer]

Just subscribed from Toronto Canada

[@user-gm2cl8mq4w]

У меня кухня новая, но все так же есть место где держу всякую мелочь в виде крышечек, пакетов и ТД . И ещё была в гостях у людей с идентичной обстановкой как на видео.

[@georgemoore4504]

Very good loved it

[@billb945]

Your English phonetics are pretty good. (analogue)TV appears to be from 1960/70 era. I have some very old wool blankets that were my grandparents/great-grandparents.

[@vitomessina3784]

in a Soviet system where everyone has the exact same product, then it will be easy to repair them, change the parts, .... in a capitalist system where there are a thousand models of cars, if you need a few dollars' bargain, you will have to pay dearly for it. import it from far away, or rather, change the whole car! Pure madness!

[@MeganSaidThis]

Is there an elderly person still living in this apartment? It's like a museum.

[@brandydinsmore8214]

I thought she lived there but she acts like she is as surprised as we are what is in the drawers.

[@lorraineforrest5266]

And the wall unit is a kitchen cabinet we had them in uk too long ago but with glass doors to display nice cups

[@raphaellall6270]

Very good Soviet apartment. Millions of people in the world these days are poor and homeless. Even in the United States which is crumbling into poverty. It shows how the Soviets were ahead of their time by building cheap and basic apartments for everyone. Nice video and I love your English!...

[@Desert-edDave]

Wonder why that 'experiment' failed... 🤣 They must have ran out of other people's money.

[@seanwfindley]

Well said. Soviet Union had a lot of good ideas.I live in the USA and it is getting really bad here. Homeless tent cities everywhere. Even with a good job you can't afford to buy a house. USA is a sick country and needs help.

[@IvanIvanov-gu6mw]

Most of the homeless people in USA choose this style of life by themselfs.USA have tons of jobs and aportunitys and the homeless dont want this cuz why they should work if the goverment will pay them and people will give them food for free xDDD Homeless in Russia are toothless alcoholics and they didnt survive long unlike in USA where they live in nice climate and having new iphones

[@jjhonecker7644]

ЭТО АБСОЛЮТНО ПРАВИЛЬНЫЕ ФАКТЫ!!!!!

[@timbollinger4494]

Poor young child you don’t understand the old ways. Thank you for reminding me of my youth! People are not that much different in America. I like to explore the world on KZbin! We don’t appreciate what an easy life we have!

[@dorotheaduwel587]

Danke für das Video. Der Bautyp mit den Wohnungen war in der DDR überall zu finden. Nach der Wende hat man mit Rückbau oder Modernisierung begonnen. Die Haushaltsgeräte und andere Küchenutensilien kenne ich auch noch. Aber ich habe sie nicht mehr. Die Möbelierung war ähnlich in den 50 - ziger Jahren. Es ist schön, dass die Wohnung als Museum erhalten wird. Wir haben hier auch solche Wohnungen, die nach verschiedenen Zeitaltern eingerichtet sind. Es haben sich Vereine gegründet, die das bewahren. Haushaltsauflösungen sind da oft eine Fundgrube. Für Schulkinder und interessierte Erwachsene werden Führungen angeboten. Liebe Grüße und viel Freude auf weiteren Entdeckungsreisen durch die Zeiten.

[@Emraz]

Don't think much of this Air BnB promo but would give it a go if its cheap.

[@robertjosephbussiere3888]

I like how when you made a mess or moved something, you cleaned it up or put things back the way you found it.

[@prosto_pro_financy]

Really old apartment! So good condition! My aunt had absolutely the same things in her apartment . So this is very nostalgic. Good video!!!👍👍👍👍

[@mjames978]

It would be nice to see the village/ town and ask people what they like and what they would like to change. Also if there is a market that would be very interesting too.

[@travelwithbalnur]

Thanks for ideas soon I will travel to village to film videos

[@nikolaybondarev7407]

This is nice because if my own kazakh people are ever able to accept me and I can live in peace then I'd love to return home

[@barsbay7598]

Why wouldn't they accept you?

[@omyasniko]

Wasnt know that in Kazakhstan you count kitchen as room. In Russia we are usaly dont count like this. I mean i live in similar apartment with 2 rooms( one biger and one small) + kitchen and we call this 2 room apartment

[@jjhonecker7644]

ХОРОШО ЭФФЕКТИВНО, ТАК РАЗРУШАЕТ ОЖИДАНИЯ!!!!!!!

[@mjames978]

I was surprised with the bed why there's no big fluffy duvet which we see more in the West but instead materials like wool with many layers to keep warm in the winter.

[@travelwithbalnur]

You’re right, even Kazakh people sometimes put those wool blankets on the floor

[@istvanvilmos8400]

I used to spend a lot of time staying in an apartment in a so-called commie block on the outskirts of Budapest and it was a nice place to live/stay.

[@fadojutimikayode13]

Nice of you,you good 👍 I'm soon relocate

[@glennzac63]

Thank you so much for a very thorough and detailed view of a Soviet era apartment. Very interesting to see how people from other parts of the world live especially coming from such a beautiful and friendly hostess.

[@draxosplace4845]

Very nice

[@Bodine-ec8ms]

The Sharpening File in the Kitchen Drawer is called a > in U.S.A.

[@milekrizman]

Do you know Bald and Bankrupt? This video should have been made with him.

[@ondrejjaluvka6766]

Interesting video, the apartment looks just like any other concrete panel house in warsaw pact countries, just a bit on the older side nowadays. When the old lady were really shocked by the 200000, thats price for rent? But how big is average salary from which would be such rent paid? I guess it would be a bigger apartment around 80 squared meters.

[@AnneBlack-uc7cj]

every details on these apartments are similar to Chinese apartments in 1990s

[@talldave7799]

Kitchen is counted as a "ROOM"! When you say 2 rooms in other parts of the world, that means 2 bedrooms!

[@andreyiforoff8891]

No. Counting only living room. The soviet flat never had union kitchen with other rooms. Kitchen is totally separated in every krushevka in soviet era.

[@nsaspdin]

In England we call the knife sharpener a "steel" but what you took from the drawer we call a "file", A file is an engineer's metal working tool, not for sharpening a knife, A steel would be round not triangular, but in truth you can sharpen a knife on everything from stone to leather if you don't have the best steel.

[@phamtrannhungoc8875]

10:16 is actual a Vietnamese temple located in Viet Nam

[@j.b.4340]

I love that thumbnail. 🙂

[@MadWolf.]

Gracias por ser agradecido por lo que tengo en mi país 😊, un saludo 🖐

[@kingcountrykiwi7429]

Great video. But me personally I could not live here due to size and the concrete jungle outside. It’s awesome your love for Kazak. Seems like a great tourist location for me. How well known is the English Language in Kazakhstan?

[@travelwithbalnur]

It depends on the area, if it’s megapolis like Almaty, majority of people understand English but struggle during speaking. But in my hometown, there are only 10% knows English I guess.

[@kingcountrykiwi7429]

@@travelwithbalnur thank you. I Have just become a Patreon for the channel as I find this part of the unknown world for me, really interesting. Good luck from New Zealand.

[@travelwithbalnur]

@@kingcountrykiwi7429 oh I’m thankful, I will try to make more incredible and insightful videos 🇰🇿😁

[@Galidorquest]

It's kind of similar to Chicago & NYC apartments.

[@Bodine-ec8ms]

42 Square Meters is 452 Square Feet for anyone interested.

[@DoubleDogDare54]

My living room is bigger than that....🙄

[@fdoguerrasanles]

Borges once said that the worst kind of nostalgia was the nostalgia of that you never had lived. I was just a kid when a USA supported military strike opened the road to a bloody ultra rightist dictatorship in my country, Chile. Then, everything that smelled communist or soviet was persecuted and considered evil. Such a bloody persecution and the fact that 50 years after that we are still living under the same ultra capitalist regime makes me feel an intense nostalgia for what I had never had the opportunity to ive. Now, I'm old, sick and recently widowed, and I'm thinking seriously of leaving all this neoliberal crap and to resettle down In Russia or in a former USSR republic. I have fell in love with this apartment just the way it is shown in the vídeo. I would not change anything in it. It's a perfect place to retire and to live far out yankee style crappy way of living ar least for the few years that rest of my life

[@Oblivion5367]

so sad to hear. sad to hear that you prefer a country that's worse than the one you live in. communism was crap and evil.

[@solanjedere]

Those kind of apartaments are very expensive here in Brazil, actually luxurious nowa days cuz it has to be functional not good looking. And this got nothing to do with the government, but the Brazilian bad taste itself 😂😂😂😂. I actually found the building very interesting hahahahah. Nice channel!!!

[@georgemoore4504]

Very nicely done. Alan U.K.

[@coffeepeachesplans]

Love the 1st😮

[@22News22]

Як називається село і в якій губернії чи місті?

[@dyske]

Note about the word “stuff”: it’s an uncountable noun. So, you don’t say “stuffs”. Always just “stuff.” You could use “things” instead.

[@TheeHoneyBadger7093]

5:29 I love how she says “Soviet Times”…

[@sandor7594]

I would definitely choose a bigger apartment if it costs the same.

[@karr777sk]

اذا كنتم لا تريدون او لا تعجبكم هذه البيوت ..... فان السورين مستعدين ان يعيشوا في هذه البيوت .... ارجوكم اعطونا هذه البيوت 🤔 و شكرا

[@silviuradu4847]

It is exactly like in Romania, incredible!

[@Jmfufghf]

I would rather live downtown in an older apartment but in a more interesting neighborhood where I can walk to more things than a newer apartment in the suburbs with nothing to do around it

[@gingerhammond6446]

The fridge and stove are very small...

[@oraz.]

This is nice

[@draxosplace4845]

Interesting

[@block_hacks]

Let's strive to the modern future!!))

[@thomasprince4992]

look like very warm coats

[@soeren72]

Is Kazakhstan open for tourists now ?

[@Biskawow]

13:35 rag is the word you looking for

[@AnneBlack-uc7cj]

It's like going back to the 1990s in China.Make me recall my childhood

[@austin12ascot]

Is it a museum? Do you live there?

[@iainsanders4775]

I wish I had a glass-fronted tv, they give far better, glowing reality pics than plastic & goo.

[@wendeldtaveri2590]

These apartments are interesting and fatastics for the time they were made, I believe this saved Eastern Europe and the entire Soviet Union from having slums and favelas like we have in Latin America.

[@DemCrumblies]

I'd consider moving there to play with the cats.

[@Crocs4cats]

Was this just to practice your English? ‘Here’s a rolling pin. Here’s a picture. Here’s a table…’🤦🏽‍♀️ You forgot to mention the mouse turds in the kitchen draw though…

[@idontwanttobefound8776]

7:16 we just call it a "knife sharpener"

[@Melthornal]

The tool you could not name in the drawer is called a rasp in english.

[@prosto_pro_financy]

Where is it? I mean the city. So expensive rent - like in the capital of Kazakhstan😬

[@stevewilliam6852]

Very detailed, and a very pretty and sweet girl.

[@fuuz642]

There was that guy from Kazakhstan who made a few movies a while ago. He was funny, he said ‘very nice’ in a funny way and he wanted to high five people all the time

[@danielambrosio6134]

Bubek washing machine? Is this a name?

[@mathiasniemeier4359]

In reality I would love ❤ to have the metal plates and pots! YOXSA