I was talking about that USSR specific "kommunalka". And there was another, more traditional, form of communal housing - dormitories - usually associated with

I was talking about that USSR specific "kommunalka". And there was another, more traditional, form of communal housing - dormitories - usually associated with specific factories/organizations and which especially took off during industrialization. With time the dormitories became the dominant form of housing pressure resolution. While intended to be temporary some people/families had to live there for years.