The charter of the suburban association not only regulated the number and location of trees on each plot, but also defined the permitted size of the house. For example, a family of three was supposed to stay in one bedroom and was not allowed to plant more than six apple trees.
The size rules changed often, but neither the plots of land nor the houses were ever big. For example, in the 1960s and 1970s, only houses up to 270 square feet were allowed to be built on the 6,458-square-foot plot. In the 1980s, the house could be no more than 540 square feet on 6,458 to 10,764 square feet of land.
Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya (1925-2015) remembered her family’s cooperative dacha in the village of Zagoryanka as a two-room clapboard house that the owners considered a “regal splendor.” In almost every house, the bathroom — a toilet and sink — would be located in a small clapboard outbuilding. However, dacha residents were not daunted by everyday discomfort.
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