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noun
A kind of low-cost apartment building constructed in the Soviet Union since the early 1960s.
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noun
An individual apartment in such a building.
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History
Borrowed from Russian хрущёвка (xruščóvka), named after Nikita Khrushchev, former leader of the Soviet Union.
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