A communal apartment was typically shared between two to seven families.
The new building is built on a natural hill, where until recently there were blocks of old houses with communal apartments.
Soviet writers write in communal apartments all the time, don't they?
The redheaded boy spent his early years living in a communal apartment shared with other families.
It's big, a former communal apartment that must have housed six families just 10 years ago.
The city center had many communal apartment blocks developed in the 1960s, which changed its character.
It's like the communal apartment we all grew up in.
New housing has increased greatly, but millions of people still live in communal apartments.
The communal apartment she lived in was destroyed by a bomb.
And the less fortunate want to know what the several families who now share rooms in a communal apartment might get out of this.