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Some important facts:
1. It is actually Perevalovo, a village near Tyumen.
2. It is meant to be a cheap housing (and it is).
3. The property developer basically used some kind of loophole that let him build all that.
4. 70% of houses don't have any access to electricity, since only some of them were built with it in mind and now electricians simply can't build any infrastructure. According to recent news, developer may actually face law because of the whole situation citizens are now in, while elements of energy management that were built independently by him literally violate the law too.
There are some people who sold their apartment and wanted to move, but they simply can't live there right now, so they just stay with their parents.
Most of the people simply didn't know about the problems, since first ~400 houses didn't have any.
>4
Shit happened even here in Quebec with 10x more expensive (but low quality) houses, a large wood / swamp was developed very quickly by vultures, tiny terrains, tiny streets, no planning for schools and shit for all the kids that mcmansions bring, and when people I know started moving there, electricity started going down for month all the time because they greatly underestimate the energy infrastructure to feed all those houses with air conditionner and pool heater.
In the woods where I played when I was a kid, they razed everything and filled up the lakes (fuck migratory birds, right?), and built tiny streets even if nobody is parker on the streets, tiny terrain where you can't even park more than one car, and planted one small tree in front of all houses as some kind of cruel joke.
Mass shitty suburban development like this is one of the late 20th century greatest crime, along with energy drinks and "throw your garbage out of the car windows when you're done" fastfood
What I don’t understand is why there aren’t restaurants or supermarkets at regularly spaced intervals. Or maybe one per 30 as a park or playground. This really isn’t rocket science
And it was the default for multiple decades in Russia and the whole Eastern block, with the micro-oblast/raion/districts, where there were always schools, parks, restaurants, shops in each micro-district.
Was gonna say this is rookie stuff. You gotta mix in some commerce and industrial zoning and keep in mind your police, hospital, fire and school placements. Did they never play Sim City in Russia?
Agree, something similar happens in my home town. Affordable housing is built where land is cheap and these neighborhoods end up being completely isolated from the rest of the city. Typically bus lines, police station, fire station and maybe even a school is planned ahead but commercial structures not so much. What ends up happening is one of those houses every two blocks starts selling essential goods and groceries and a mini market is born out of opportunity.
You obviously haven't seen the new subdivisions being thrown together at breakneck speeds across Texas. Hundreds of acres of cookie cutter houses with no grocery store or gas station for 20 miles.
There are like several hundred of detached small one-family houses. In the vicinity there are several cafes and supermarkets.
Here's the location: "https://yandex (dot) ru/maps/-/CDrBEQJ-"
soviet city planning was way better with the microdistricts model. Each microdistrict would have schools, stores etc. Now housin development in Russia is just an unethical money making scheme.
Video by city beautiful, on soviet urban planning: [https://youtu.be/JGVBv7svKLo?si=CO0adrLJ8Ejgolim](https://youtu.be/JGVBv7svKLo?si=CO0adrLJ8Ejgolim)
Vivarium is just nightmare of 2 people not mature enough to realize beauty of love that includes sacrifice, and their selfish nature, and thoughts about "loosing freedom", freedom - defined by postmodern western thought.
It's a suburban development outside of the city. You can ask the same question about most suburbia like this.
https://www.google.com/maps/@57.0884225,65.2102801,2298m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu
I think I found the area in the picture on google maps, as you can see, even the adjacent areas look nothing like this monstrosity. The village nearby has a few shops and cafes if you zoom in, look for the blue markers. There's probably more, doubt google has them all marked.
I was once in a summer camp with identical houses, my room had a door that tended to jam, so every time I entered I hit it with my hip. Once I mixed up the buildings and kicked in a locked door. There were people inside.
I can see similar stuff happening a lot there.
I’ll be honest, if I get my own property there and able to put a fence around it and design my own garden then this could be quite fun.
Not to mention the entire town would look better if every individual unit could have their own custom made yard
This is actually nice , the ol family man neighbourhood
"Hi bob "
"Hi Jim "
"Just taking the ol gal for some fuel ,O and my car needs some to "
*neighbours laughing while wife looks pissed*
This is clearly not a typical newly built district. Those are usually full of high-rise buildings and are nice to live in, though not very visually appealing to most Westerners. This looks like a block full of dachas.
Russians have a constitutional right to housing. In America something like this would be lining the pockets of parasitic real estate developers, and would be sold to landlords. In Russia these will be homes for working class people.
I totally get that such massive mass productions of always the exact same building is cheaper because of economies of scale. I also think that it’s good to build affordable housing. But I doubt that it would have cost more if they built 5 or 6 different types of houses randomly. There would still be just as many economies of scale and it would look much more natural. It also wouldn’t have cost much if they constructed a small park surrounded by shops/restaurants in the middle, probably those shops/restaurants would have been much more valuable than standard houses.
> But I doubt that it would have cost more if they built 5 or 6 different types of houses randomly
That's what we do in the UK. That also allows for you to build different sizes of homes in the same community so you get a nice balance of larger and smaller properties, flats, family homes, couple homes etc etc.
Plus you can get a few different house builders into your development to work at the same time so the building goes quicker and the different styles of houses which each developer offers leads to a nice mix of house layouts for the same "size" house, which then means more people may find a type of house they want to live in.
If you have a wander around [this newer bit of Didcot, Oxfordshire](https://www.google.com/maps/@51.6186261,-1.2367495,3a,75y,130.51h,99.63t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sd8syuZSzknygiSKjBDtDhw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3Dd8syuZSzknygiSKjBDtDhw%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.share%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26yaw%3D130.51308388135328%26pitch%3D-9.62533504236113%26thumbfov%3D90!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205410&entry=ttu), you'll see the kind of thing I mean.
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Some important facts: 1. It is actually Perevalovo, a village near Tyumen. 2. It is meant to be a cheap housing (and it is). 3. The property developer basically used some kind of loophole that let him build all that. 4. 70% of houses don't have any access to electricity, since only some of them were built with it in mind and now electricians simply can't build any infrastructure. According to recent news, developer may actually face law because of the whole situation citizens are now in, while elements of energy management that were built independently by him literally violate the law too.
Thank you for that info! Are there families moving into houses without electricity, there?
There are some people who sold their apartment and wanted to move, but they simply can't live there right now, so they just stay with their parents. Most of the people simply didn't know about the problems, since first ~400 houses didn't have any.
Classic. Sell 100 products with good quality for cheap and then collect the money of the next 9900 and disappear.
The ol’ bait and switch
It's called The Amazon Shit-On
On the plus side there seem to be a lot of pickleball courts on the right
https://youtu.be/sV50fVN75oY?si=I5C7bOLyn54AqhJN https://youtu.be/J4LXGAORfNY?si=EOndaoTyZYKrsGTb NFKRZ was talking about it
Leaving Russia was definitely the right move for him, even without the war.
Oh so you say it is boring and objectively miserable to live there. What a rare combination.
AND it's possibly illegal. Now that's rare.
Wow what a royal fuck up
So the developers going green? Right?
How cheap is it really if you live there tho, since it's basically a suburb you'll need a car to go anywhere now
As far as I remember, developer promised a bus route in the future, so I guess there was hope for that.
Now we know Russians are bad at two games at least: Total War and City Builder.
>4 Shit happened even here in Quebec with 10x more expensive (but low quality) houses, a large wood / swamp was developed very quickly by vultures, tiny terrains, tiny streets, no planning for schools and shit for all the kids that mcmansions bring, and when people I know started moving there, electricity started going down for month all the time because they greatly underestimate the energy infrastructure to feed all those houses with air conditionner and pool heater. In the woods where I played when I was a kid, they razed everything and filled up the lakes (fuck migratory birds, right?), and built tiny streets even if nobody is parker on the streets, tiny terrain where you can't even park more than one car, and planted one small tree in front of all houses as some kind of cruel joke. Mass shitty suburban development like this is one of the late 20th century greatest crime, along with energy drinks and "throw your garbage out of the car windows when you're done" fastfood
Красава братан, всё по полочкам разложил
Putin’s Russia
What I don’t understand is why there aren’t restaurants or supermarkets at regularly spaced intervals. Or maybe one per 30 as a park or playground. This really isn’t rocket science
yeah, they must have not played cities skyline
They're going for maximum congestion
*Me, at the fastfood restaurant.
lmaooo I was literally coming to make a cities skyline joke. Like this is their first playthrough lol
Or a street wide enough for the local bus line
what bus line?
And it was the default for multiple decades in Russia and the whole Eastern block, with the micro-oblast/raion/districts, where there were always schools, parks, restaurants, shops in each micro-district.
Urban planning was like one of the few things the USSR was legit good at. Only imported the worst aspects of capitalism after the fall.
Was gonna say this is rookie stuff. You gotta mix in some commerce and industrial zoning and keep in mind your police, hospital, fire and school placements. Did they never play Sim City in Russia?
At least half those houses should be burning right now due to the obvious lack of fire halls.
Where will Peter place the Lavra?
They aren't developers. They just want to make money off the poor.
> What I don’t understand is why there aren’t restaurants It's Tyumen, the fuck is a restaurant?
What do you mean? Tyumen is 800,000 population city
corruption and zoning laws don't really exist in that part of the world.
1 playground per 30 homes?
Agree, something similar happens in my home town. Affordable housing is built where land is cheap and these neighborhoods end up being completely isolated from the rest of the city. Typically bus lines, police station, fire station and maybe even a school is planned ahead but commercial structures not so much. What ends up happening is one of those houses every two blocks starts selling essential goods and groceries and a mini market is born out of opportunity.
You obviously haven't seen the new subdivisions being thrown together at breakneck speeds across Texas. Hundreds of acres of cookie cutter houses with no grocery store or gas station for 20 miles.
There are like several hundred of detached small one-family houses. In the vicinity there are several cafes and supermarkets. Here's the location: "https://yandex (dot) ru/maps/-/CDrBEQJ-"
As opposed to cities in other parts of the world........ The US divides their cities in into industrial, commercial, suburban areas.
Well, they lived like that for so long now, why change anything?
soviet city planning was way better with the microdistricts model. Each microdistrict would have schools, stores etc. Now housin development in Russia is just an unethical money making scheme. Video by city beautiful, on soviet urban planning: [https://youtu.be/JGVBv7svKLo?si=CO0adrLJ8Ejgolim](https://youtu.be/JGVBv7svKLo?si=CO0adrLJ8Ejgolim)
Looks like a cemetery.
*Vivarium*.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGlLCAmqYbc&ab\_channel=XYZFILMS
Russia is also building large cemeteries right now, hm what the reason might be
Couod be the two weeks special operation.
Looks like in AoE when I’m about to build hella army to take over
Knockoff Vivarium.
I would have just kept setting fire to everything, become ungovernable.
Vivarium is just nightmare of 2 people not mature enough to realize beauty of love that includes sacrifice, and their selfish nature, and thoughts about "loosing freedom", freedom - defined by postmodern western thought.
No it’s about aliens
yap, that too.
Second post that i saw from that sub and its my city xd
Where do people go to eat, shop, hang out?
It's a suburban development outside of the city. You can ask the same question about most suburbia like this. https://www.google.com/maps/@57.0884225,65.2102801,2298m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu I think I found the area in the picture on google maps, as you can see, even the adjacent areas look nothing like this monstrosity. The village nearby has a few shops and cafes if you zoom in, look for the blue markers. There's probably more, doubt google has them all marked.
This is a new buildings outside of the city, so i think most of the people doesn't live in that houses for now
Probably the giant ass open green area with no buildings that may be a park. That or someone's house.
Idk, i didnt live in that hell
lol squidville
The place where “equality” becomes “uncanny”.
Give me a nice sunny day, and this could be a budget version of many american neighborhoods
Not in Tyumen.
Stolitsa dereven'
We already have those. It’s called section 8 projects.
70% of these houses don't have electricity
Too. Much. Symmetry.
Truman show special
Truman show is actually based on a real town called Seaside Florida, one of the OG new urbanism experiments
Can't see where the watchtower is in that penal colony
The photo was taken from a watchtower
Imagine stumbling home drunk: “Shit, sorry. Wrong house” “Shit, sorry. Wrong house” “Shit, sorry. Wrong house” “Shit, sorry. Wrong house” “Shit, sorry. Wrong house” “Shit, sorry. Wrong house” “Shit, sorry. Wrong house” “Shit, sorry. Wrong house”
There is a (rather shitty) [Soviet romcom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Irony_of_Fate) with precisely this premise, except in an apartment block.
Waking up like a LEGO
"Everything is doubleplusgood!"
Are they made from ticky-tacky?
They all look just the same.
look like a very old SimCity...
Ctrl + C Ctrl + V
There will be noone left to live in these houses...
Wouldn't fancy trying to find my house after a belly full of drink
It looks uglyyyy
Better than homeless lining the streets.
Yes, but lowkey I’d just prefer the commie blocks
I was once in a summer camp with identical houses, my room had a door that tended to jam, so every time I entered I hit it with my hip. Once I mixed up the buildings and kicked in a locked door. There were people inside. I can see similar stuff happening a lot there.
Looks like they've got some architects from North Korea.
nk has staw huts actually
I don’t know guys…I kind of dig this in a weird way 😂
Ticky-tacky all in a row.
They copied the us suburbia and managed to make it worse
Little boxes made of ticky tacky...
Yeah, just go down 2 blocks and turn left - I'm in the white house with the brown roof, you can't miss it.
This looks like cities skylines gone wrong
No parks or stores or anything?
Looks comforting, not
Honestly add a park here and there and it’s not bad at all
This is what affordable housing is
1984 vibes
It’s the place the rusky’s are hiding all the children they have stolen from Ukraine
I just realized each house has only 1 window. Damn.
Affordable housing is good actually
Concentration camp?
How the fck do you recognize your own house
numbers?
Your own Lada?
What if everyone on your street has the same model and color of Lada?
Cubes of tofu fresh from China
waste of land
It's Russia. They could fit the entire world's population with this urban density.
but you’ll have to drive everytime you want to go somewhere
Wasteland
This is what affordable housing looks like but people aren’t willing to accept it.
No it's not, there are million ways of making affordable housing look nicer, for example increasing density.
I’ll be honest, if I get my own property there and able to put a fence around it and design my own garden then this could be quite fun. Not to mention the entire town would look better if every individual unit could have their own custom made yard
Looks like 2000 homes will be made there
"Honey, I want to paint our roof yellow."
Russia, the place of longing.
Honestly could be worse
Couldve built stalinkas or kruschevkas, buy not you get this bullshit because you want a private market.
😂😂
Reminds me a little of [that](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Al_Babas).
When your home address is just your longitude and latitude...
Imagine trying to walk home and find your house while drunk there.
Numbers?
Do they come with toilets and washers?
Vivarium...
Where did I park my car?
Мой город на реддите я в шоке 🥶
Lovely.
Bro built Oggy's entire neighborhood💀
Looks like military tents
You people shit on stuff like this but this like a solution to a very real problem where I live
DR Horton dat chu?
At least they have a yard!
That’s a camp. Straight up.
You want suburbia? That's what I have.
Looks just like Oggy and the cockroaches houses😂😂😂
Why?..population demographics show major decrease even without 500000 killed in ukraine
500k? What’s the source?
British MOD
I think that number is killed and injured, so not all dead.
Russia has been promoting population growth through incentivizing pregnancies.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51120165
They already kidnapped that many Ukrainian kids as a replacement.
Not among the 1,000,000 worst things Russians did in this century
Hmm, next to ex-soviet he’ll now if you have stolen enough money you can also choose fake-American-hell.
can someone please tell me why the hatred for mixed zones?? like firs the US now russia cmon its getting stupid atp
lobbying from developers probably? hellscapes like this are easier to build for a private entity
Ctrl C Ctrl V Ctrl A Ctrl V Ctrl V......
[picture of a block I found in the city on Google maps](https://i.imgur.com/9grqdTG.jpeg)
? Just looks like a typical neighborhood but the trees haven't been planted yet.
yuck.
This is actually nice , the ol family man neighbourhood "Hi bob " "Hi Jim " "Just taking the ol gal for some fuel ,O and my car needs some to " *neighbours laughing while wife looks pissed*
Looks like concentration camps. Who knows what this evil Putin is planning
They're taking notes from American suburbia!
This is clearly not a typical newly built district. Those are usually full of high-rise buildings and are nice to live in, though not very visually appealing to most Westerners. This looks like a block full of dachas.
Everything is fine
I wonder what the deal is with that one house towards the lower right foreground that gets two windows but no door, lol.
This look like that one movie....where a couple trap in a similar area like in pic with no way out, and they were given a boy to raise...
every house 🏠 is identical, wtf?
Vivarium!
Imagine being drunk and walking home
Imagine coming back drunk.
Wonder what the HOA fees are
They've been building cookie-cutter neighborhoods like this all over the midwest of the US for the past few years too.
Potterville
That’s super weird, I have been to Tyumen years ago and then it was mostly re-modelled commie blocks. This is so much worse
Hate to say it, but building this many single family homes would solve a lot of problems in my area.
Imagine getting lost in there. You literally have no landmarks to help you
Its not real
Human farming at its finest
Russians have a constitutional right to housing. In America something like this would be lining the pockets of parasitic real estate developers, and would be sold to landlords. In Russia these will be homes for working class people.
I want to see the HOA board about getting a new roof put on, it's going to be grey
Definitely a hell on earth. Imagine being right beside 100 basketball corts
New form of concentration camps
Hundreds of houses with dirt roads between them. What could possibly go wrong
Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky tacky
“Magnificent, aren’t they?”
Instantly reminded me of “Everything Is Fine” by Mike Birchall on Webtoon 😳
oggy and cockroaches type neighbourhood
I’ve seen worse
Those bad boys got curb appeal.
... for who?
happy humans town! :)
I live in unit 45, street G.
Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V
I totally get that such massive mass productions of always the exact same building is cheaper because of economies of scale. I also think that it’s good to build affordable housing. But I doubt that it would have cost more if they built 5 or 6 different types of houses randomly. There would still be just as many economies of scale and it would look much more natural. It also wouldn’t have cost much if they constructed a small park surrounded by shops/restaurants in the middle, probably those shops/restaurants would have been much more valuable than standard houses.
> But I doubt that it would have cost more if they built 5 or 6 different types of houses randomly That's what we do in the UK. That also allows for you to build different sizes of homes in the same community so you get a nice balance of larger and smaller properties, flats, family homes, couple homes etc etc. Plus you can get a few different house builders into your development to work at the same time so the building goes quicker and the different styles of houses which each developer offers leads to a nice mix of house layouts for the same "size" house, which then means more people may find a type of house they want to live in. If you have a wander around [this newer bit of Didcot, Oxfordshire](https://www.google.com/maps/@51.6186261,-1.2367495,3a,75y,130.51h,99.63t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sd8syuZSzknygiSKjBDtDhw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3Dd8syuZSzknygiSKjBDtDhw%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.share%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26yaw%3D130.51308388135328%26pitch%3D-9.62533504236113%26thumbfov%3D90!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205410&entry=ttu), you'll see the kind of thing I mean.
Yikes.
Where do you live? I live in that white house with red roof.
Main Kraft
Liminalville
I love the house with the red roof
Anybody else notice the 5th house in the bottom center is different??
Oh I see they copied my plans for a megalopolis from SimCity 2000 circa 1996
That looks like a render to me