See one of our neighborhoods on a Google map of St. Petersburg. If you're looking for one of our photographs, see this display of large thumbnails. See also our Bibliography and the alphabetical index.
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Apartment I floor plan Floor plan of the apartment from Tours 1-2 (all clips), home to "auntie" Asya, Ekaterina Sergeevna, Masha, Sveta, and Natasha. 2006.
Apartment II floor plan Floor plan of the apartment from Tour 3 (all clips), home to Sasha, Yulia, Tatyana, Iraida Yakovlevna, Anna Matveevna, Nina Vasilievna, Sonya, and Savva. 2006.
Apartment III floor plan Floor plan of the apartment that is home to Sveta, Ksyusha, and Alla Ignatevna (clips 1-2 in Tour 4 and 5-6 in Tour 5). 2006.
Apartment IV floor plan Floor plan of the apartment that is home to Kamila, Lena, and Yulya from the clip "Kamila, Lena, and Yulya" (Tour 5). 2006.
Apartment V floor plan Floor plan of the apartment that is home to Vadim, Lena, and Eduard (clips 7-10 in Tour 5 and clip 3 in Tour 4). 2006.
Apartment VI floor plan Floor plan of the apartment that is home to Marina, Lena, and Vlad from Tour 5 (clips 2-4). 2006.
Apartment VII floor plan Floor plan of the apartment that is partially shown in these photographs: kitchen and hallway. (We have no video of this apartment.) 1998.

In each apartment we were able to film only some of the residents. Their faces are shown below, with brief notes about each person. The two apartment guests who appear in our videos are not listed here.
Apartment I
Eight families now live in this apartment. There was a time when eleven families lived here (about 50 people).
	"Auntie" Asya, who has been living in this apartment for over forty years.
	Ekaterina Sergeevna, one of the apartment's oldest residents.
	Masha, the twenty-five year-old granddaughter of Ekaterina Sergeevna.
	Natasha, who lived in the apartment for many years; she is visiting her daughter Masha and her mother-in-law Ekaterina Sergeevna.
	Sveta, a former graduate student, who has been renting a room for over two years.
	Elizaveta Vikentevna, who, with some breaks, lived in this apartment from 1924 until her death in 1999.
	Tolya, one of the apartment's oldest residents.
	Natasha, Tolya's wife, who has been living in this apartment for many years.
Apartment II
Eleven families lived in the apartment in 2006, when we filmed our videos. There was a time when 16 families lived there.
	Yulya, who has lived in the apartment all her life.
	Sasha, Yulya's husband, who moved here after their marriage.
	Tatyana, who lives in this apartment with her six-years-old daughter Anya.
	Anna Matveevna (born 1914), living here since 1929.
	Nina Vasilievna, living here since she was born in 1924; she has been in her present room since 1930.
	Iraida Yakovlevna, a retired janitor, who has been living here for 40 years.
	Sonya, who has lived here all her life.
	Savva, Sonya's brother, a student.
Apartment III
Nine people lived in this apartment at the time of the filming..
	Sveta, a student, renting a room in the apartment.
	Ksyusha, who is renting a room in this apartment.
	Alla Ignatevna, who has been living in this apartment since the mid 1990s, longer than everyone else; she moved to this kommunalka from a private apartment.
Apartment IV
More than 15 people lived in this apartment at the time of the filming.
	Galya, who has been living in this apartment for many years.
	Kamila, a student from Poland, who came to St. Petersburg as a volunteer worker in a residence for disabled children; she rents a room here.
	Lena, an artist, has been living here for a relatively short time (six years).
	Yulya, who has been living here for a few years.
	Savva, Yulya's son.
	Maria Yakovlevna, the apartment's oldest tenant. Her family took up residence in the apartment in the early revolutionary period.
Apartment V
At the time of the filming, the apartment had nine residents. A short time ago, there were eleven people there.
	Lena, who has lived her whole life in this apartment.
	Vadim, Lena's husband, who has lived in this apartment over 20 years.
	Eduard, who has been living in this apartment since 1979.
Apartment VI
At the time of filming this midsized apartment had eight residents.
	Lena, who has lived in this apartment for over 25 years with her daughter Marina and the sixteen year-old grandson Vlad.
	Marina, living here with her mother since she was a schoolgirl.
	Vlad, Marina's sixteen year-old son, who has lived here all her life.
Apartment VII
(We don't see this apartment on video and have no portraits of people living in it.)