Youth Residential Complexes () were

housing projects Public housing, also known as social housing, refers to subsidized or affordable housing provided in buildings that are usually owned and managed by local government, central government, nonprofit organizations or a combination thereof ...

intended for young families and constructed by their future tenants themselves, subsidized by industrial enterprises. This approach existed since 1971 and it was a mass movement until the

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. It was an attempt to alleviate the residential construction crisis in the late

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. Construction of Youth Residential Complexes continued in modern

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, although based on a different business model, based on a

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."Russia's Youth and Its Culture, by Hilary Pilkington, 1994,
p. 98
/ref> The first complex was built in

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, one of Russian's

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s (science cities). MZzhK1 Nameboard 001

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Economy of the Soviet Union Youth organizations based in the Soviet Union {{youth-org-stub

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