The farther we move away from Soviet times, thethere are fewer among us who know from their own life experiences what a hostel is. However, this type of affordable and comfortable housing is popular among many visitors today, especially in large cities, where rental prices are very, very decent. However, the hostel hostel discord. In this article we will introduce you to their main types, revealing the features of each.
What is a hostel?
The hostel (running slang name - "hostel") is a place of temporary residence:
- students;
- seasonal workers;
- employees of organizations with families;
- individuals.
В общежитии и квартирного типа, и других видов, according to standards, 6 (previously - 4.5) m² of personal space per one occupant. This allows cohabitation of strangers in a single room. Why we can assume that the level of comfort is quite low.
All questions relating to accommodation, provision, maintenance of hostels (apartment type, including) in our country solves the Housing Code.
Dormitories (in Russia, they were then called Bursa) appeared in the Middle Ages. They were intended for poor students at universities, seminaries and religious schools.
Types of hostels
The basic gradation of these places of residence depends on the way of planning the living space. They are divided:
- apartment dormitories;
- corridor;
- block;
- hotel view.
Depending on the contingent living in the hostel, it happens:
- for pupils and students;
- for workers.
There is a division by owner:
- State, municipal, at universities and enterprises. Only persons who are students or employees of a certain organization are allowed to live here.
- Commercial - their owner is IP, LLC, etc. Anyone can rent a bed here.
And the last gradation:
- “bachelor” dormitories - male and female;
- family hostels.
Let us examine the most popular of them in more detail.
Hostels of the corridor type
The cheapest and most affordable layout.Standardly, this is a long corridor, on both sides of which there are minimally equipped necessary rooms, where one to several people live. On each floor there is a kitchen and a bathroom.
Hostel type block
Sometimes these dormitories are called sectional - here2-4 rooms are combined into a separate unit. Each such section has its own bathroom. Kitchen, in most cases, one on the floor, but there are options where it is located in the block.
Hotel-view hostels
The most comfortable, but also the price for accommodationhere come out like a cheap hotel. In the room there are 2-4 people, there is a separate bathroom, shower, refrigerator, TV. The kitchen can be either one per floor or in each room.
Apartment dormitories
"Small family" is a special kind of hostels.They are the usual type of houses with isolated apartments, each of which has everything you need - a kitchen, bathroom, bathroom. Their disadvantage is a small living space.
Why is this a hostel?In Soviet times, apartments were given to families of young workers, visiting professionals. Today, permanent residents live in their privatized property in apartment-type dormitories. You can rent a house here only from its owner.
Family hostels
Allocation of housing here was a tradition in the Soviettime. Thus, a separate family for any merit received from the trade union a warrant for settling in a separate room in the family hostel. Sometimes this was a reward for great experience, and sometimes - the result of a long wait for their turn.
The provided room is eventually officiallyassigned to the family. However, they had no right to privatize it in the post-Soviet period. Why were often loud sales of dormitory buildings to new owners, despite the presence of legally resident tenants in general.
Living conditions in such places are distinguished only by the presence of their own room. The restroom, showers and kitchen are also shared.
Workers dormitories
Can be arranged as per dorm layoutflat type and less comfortable varieties. They belong to either a specific organization or a mediator who collaborates with this employer. They have one goal - the placement of seasonal workers (the so-called guest workers), less often - permanent workers. The latter is more typical of budget organizations. An important condition - a resident receives a temporary registration at the hostel address.
Since in the Russian legislation there is no cleardetermining the conditions for dormitories, they can be like a dock and a good two-star economy-class hotel. Basically live from 4 to 20 people in the room. Facilities - in the sanitary unit on the floor. Spartan room furnishing - single or bunk beds, wear-resistant bedding, a table, a few chairs, bedside tables, a wardrobe. The plus of such a hostel is not tenants, but special personnel who do the cleaning.
That's all that we wanted to tell you about the most different hostels in Russia. The most comfortable of them - apartment. But today they have lost their dormitory status and become privatized property.
