Sentence examples for apartment blocs from inspiring English sources

The hospital is in a depressed part of southern Moscow, an area of crumbling Soviet-era apartment blocs.

Mr. Voigt has already supervised the demolition of 60 houses and 12 apartment blocs, strategically injecting grassy patches into once-dense complexes.

Among the dilapidated shacks and crumbling apartment blocs — some of which are former prison barracks — quaint wooden cottages and hotels with relatively expensive restaurants have appeared.

Popular writer Sergey Minayev said on Twitter the atmosphere reminded him of 1999, when a series of bombing attacks on apartment blocs shook Moscow.

The team's modern arena, equipped with luxury boxes, a rinkside restaurant and its own microbrewery, offsets Yaroslavl's centuries-old monastery and crumbling Soviet apartment blocs.

When I suggested that Aleksei and Marie would live in a big building outside Moscow, they said, no, those apartment blocs were built later.

In 1962, Just was denounced for speculation by the porter of his apartment bloc.

For most of her adult life, she has lived in a nine-story concrete apartment bloc in central Minsk.

Heidi Reisinger, a security specialist at the NATO Defense College in Rome, said: "It's a bit like a five-story apartment bloc with 50 tenants.

Homophone horror: This is from a news report published on Wednesday: "A month ago Lieutenant Kutaiba Hassan led his squad of soldiers into an apartment bloc in south Damascus".

When I moved to Ukraine, in 2012, I lived on the outskirts of Kiev, in a dingy post-Soviet apartment bloc across the Dnieper River from the center of town, but just a quick walk from the train station.