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  1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"><head xmlns:h="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" profile=""><title>Chapter 6. Lesson 6</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.2"/></head><body><div class="chapter"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a id="d0e18786" shape="rect"/>Chapter 6. Lesson 6</h1></div></div></div><div class="informaltable"><table class="informaltable" width="100%" border="1"><colgroup span="1"><col span="1"/></colgroup><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Lesson №6</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">WHERE DO YOU LIVE?</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">УРОК № 6</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><span class="inlinemediaobject"><img src="Images/FsiRussianFast-Lessons6-8-2.png" alt="Lesson 6"/></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a id="d0e18806" shape="rect"/><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Где вы живёте?</em></span></h1></div></div></div><p>«<span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">В гостях хорошо, а дома
  2. лучше</em></span>» as the Russians say: "There's no place like home".
  3. And this is true even if home is in the taiga in Siberia, down along the
  4. Volga or beyond the Ural mountains. Russians in the major metropolitan
  5. areas and the larger cities live in high-rise apartment buildings, whereas
  6. those in the rural areas tend to live in single-family homes. A drive
  7. through <span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">провинция</em></span> the
  8. provinces will reward you with glimpses of those homes which are usually
  9. wooden, single-story and often brightly painted and decorated. Quite a
  10. contrast to the concrete monsters in the major urban areas!</p><p>Housing, whether in terms of quality or quantity, has always been a
  11. problem in Russia and continues to be so today. The recent move toward
  12. privatization has made it possible for some Russians to buy their
  13. apartments from the government; others must continue to live in
  14. government-owned and subsidized housing. For the foreign buyer, while
  15. supply might exceed demand, real estate prices in Moscow and St.
  16. Petersburg proper rival those in cities such as New York, London and
  17. Tokyo. But many Russians still find themselves in situations where
  18. multiple families have individual rooms in a <span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">коммуналка</em></span> communal apartment and others
  19. must live in cramped quarters with their extended families.</p></div></div></body></html>