Youth Residential Complexes (russian: молодёжный жилой комплекс, МЖК, MZhK) were

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intended for young families and constructed by their future tenants themselves, subsidized by industrial enterprises. This approach existed since 1971 and it was a mass movement until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It was an attempt to alleviate the residential construction crisis in the late

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. Construction of Youth Residential Complexes continued in modern

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, although based on a different business model, based on a market economy."Russia's Youth and Its Culture, by Hilary Pilkington, 1994,
p. 98
/ref> The first complex was built in

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, one of Russian's

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s (science cities). MZzhK1 Nameboard 001

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Economy of the Soviet Union Youth organizations based in the Soviet Union {{youth-org-stub

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