The gostinka or Soviet hotel dwelling (Russian: Гостинка), is a word widely used in modern lexical usage and used in colloquial speech as a substitute for a bulky, uncommon and inaccurate “official” legal design “hotel room.” A gostinka is a type of living quarters that is either a small one-room apartment or a room with a kitchenette and a bathroom. Also, a hotel is called a building consisting of such apartments or rooms – a hotel-type house.

Description
The hotel is usually a multi-storey (from 3 to 16 floors) panel or brick building. On the floor is usually located a large number of apartments – from 10 to 40 (in the illustration to article 44 rooms); The hotels usually consist of one section, although there are also frequent multi-section hotels, usually 5-storey. Similar houses were built for workers in industrial enterprises, large industries as temporary housing in the chain “hostel – hotel – full-length apartment.”

Mass construction of houses with apartments and rooms of the hotel type in the USSR began in the 1960s – 70s. There are two types of lodges – apartment and room. The apartment hotel includes a living room (12-18 m 2 ), a small kitchen (4-6 m 2 ), an entrance hall and a bathroom. Such houses can be divided into two types, depending on the area of the living room. Often in such apartments there is also a balcony ( loggia ) for the whole apartment. The second type of hotel is a hotel with rooms of hotel type. These houses are not made up of apartments, but from rooms with a kitchen niche in the hallway and a combined bathroom with a seated bathroom.

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