"Even though there was economic growth and industrial production
the workers of the city Magnitogorsk lived a hard life." Explain.
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The vast majority of people in Magnitogorsk live in huge apartment style housing. Most of this housing was constructed in the 1960s and 1970s as the construction of housing finally caught up with the demand. The local government began bulldozing the barracks and impromptu housing that had developed during the mad dash to build the plant. Below we see a shot of the development as it looked in the 1970s
The apartment buildings were all constructed in a pre-fabricated style where most of the large portions were constructed off site. These pre-fab pieces were then put together in modular fashion and large apartment buildings can be put together much like Lego toys. A common complaint with this type of construction is that it is extremely impersonal and that the living spaces do not feel very humane or comfortable. In the early days of apartment construction, a common method to differentiate the apartments' identical appearances was to paint them different colors. This measure accounted for only a limited amount of success in making apartments more desirable.
Housing supply in Magnitogorsk is still tight, many children live with their parents until they obtain a job that issues a housing voucher, and still more children live with their parents for some time after their mairrage. This problem may not be of tremendous importance in the future, however, because many of the city's youth are fleeing for better opportunities in Moscow and in the West.
Though life in Magnitogorsk was supposed to be the ideal worker's life, reality has been far from that.