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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="d0e18866" 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="d0e18886" 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 лучше</em></span>» as the
  2. Russians say: "There's no place like home". And this is true even if home is in the taiga in
  3. Siberia, down along the Volga or beyond the Ural mountains. Russians in the major metropolitan
  4. areas and the larger cities live in high-rise apartment buildings, whereas those in the rural
  5. areas tend to live in single-family homes. A drive through <span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">провинция</em></span> the provinces will reward you with glimpses of those homes which
  6. are usually wooden, single-story and often brightly painted and decorated. Quite a contrast to
  7. the concrete monsters in the major urban areas!</p><p>Housing, whether in terms of quality or quantity, has always been a problem in Russia and
  8. continues to be so today. The recent move toward privatization has made it possible for some
  9. Russians to buy their apartments from the government; others must continue to live in
  10. government-owned and subsidized housing. For the foreign buyer, while supply might exceed
  11. demand, real estate prices in Moscow and St. Petersburg proper rival those in cities such as
  12. New York, London and Tokyo. But many Russians still find themselves in situations where
  13. 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 must live in cramped quarters with
  14. their extended families.</p></div></div></body></html>