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Autumn has grown old, and she watches
As the snow draws letters between the stones.
As rivers are bound by an icy border,
As autumn leaves, its light trace is swept away by winter...

https://youtu.be/LB0uMMwS_UU?si=xrKxhIJbAfUpO39C

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The panel block of flats is a complex symbol combining memory, identity and aesthetics of the Russian urban environment.
Panel houses (or "panelki") are buildings assembled from ready-made reinforced concrete panels manufactured at the factory. Their mass construction in the USSR was a response to the acute housing shortage after the Great Patriotic War and during the period of mass urbanization. Despite the disadvantages (poor sound and thermal insulation, small kitchens, combined bathrooms), panel houses have solved the acute problem of housing shortage in the country and provided millions of families with separate apartments.

Photo from web:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0d/a4/c5/0da4c55662965bf2fbd05b43084a4933.jpg

Panelka from Husky

https://youtu.be/QUnw7OjeKBI?si=hRMpmO7r3FVyf0ZX

Acoustic version from Noize MС:

https://youtu.be/5bsWxrvGtz0?si=9wQ8gDpve-meBzbS

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Band "Sova", post‑punk with indie pop and new wave elements.
I was surprised to find out that they have fans in China. Although perhaps China is so big that there are fans of everyone .

https://youtu.be/bjuAPCAOPmk?si=3r-9bCq55S_GEvlN


https://youtu.be/urc0vAKa2dQ?si=x2UJpjU5scRWuPds


https://youtu.be/s3wGLdtprrU?si=81xVSdrZpdVY7xss

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Incidentally, in most cases, panel houses built with well-developed infrastructure: school, kindergarten, sports fields. Garages solved the car problem. They weren't specifically built next to houses, but usually people could always find a garage near their house.

https://i.yapx.ru/cn0Nv.png
Many used garages not for cars, but as storage spaces or as a place for men to escape from their families and children with friends (which is important in small homes).

In music, garage culture is reflected, for example, in the song of Pnevmoslon. The plot of the song is based on monologue of wife, how beautiful she is and how she spends money on her beauty, and in the chorus words of her husband:
А я на тебя гляжу / I look at you
И съ*бываю к гаражу / And f**ck off to the garage
Толпе расскажу сочувствующих рож / I'll tell the crowd of sympathetic friends
Как за*бал меня твой пи*дёж / How your BH p**ses me off

https://youtu.be/4-SSzIif2Ws?si=scLbXZvb2yFTApn3