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But basically every family also had a Dacha outside of the city: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacha#Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacha#Soviet_Uni

• notyourday 7y ago
  That's incorrect.
  • amai 7y ago
    The Russians I asked cannot recall anyone who didn't have a dacha in Soviet times. Maybe the dacha was legally owned by an uncle or by grand parents. But everyone had access to one.
• knd775 7y ago
  Basically every family? That doesn't seem right. The wikipedia page you linked says that nearly all affluent families had dachas, making up about a third of the overall urban population.
  • mantas 7y ago
    Most families living in urbanised locations had access to "communal gardens". For the general public, it'd be a tiny patch of land where you may build a tiny shack to put your tools in. Now if you're working for a prestigious institution in high-up position, that patch of land gets bigger, you may be able to pull together resources to build a summer house there and the whole communal garden might be a prime location surrounding a lake, bordering a forest and so on.
  • amai 7y ago
    This is a bit unclear. If every family had a dacha, and a family consist on average of 3-4 persons, then 25-33% of the total population had a dacha, consistent with the last part of the sentence.