Etymology

khrushchevka

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Today it means: A kind of low-cost apartment building constructed in the Soviet Union since the early 1960s. Full definition →

Russian хрущёвка
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  1. Russian · borrowed fromхрущёвка
  2. English todaykhrushchevka

Borrowed from Russian хрущёвка (xruščóvka), named after Nikita Khrushchev, former leader of the Soviet Union.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.