Moving into a New Apartment, Aleksander Laktionov, 1952

An excellent representation of housing provision in Stalin's USSR not meeting that promised in propaganda, is this painting by Stalin Prize Laureate holder Aleksander Laktionov, ‘Moving into a New Apartment’. (below) Until just before the completion of this commission the Laktionov family lived in a cramped cellar, then moving into an apartment of their own.