Housing Construction in the RSFSR (1946-1991): a Review of Modern Russian researches

The researches of graduate students and doctoral students are analyzed. The authors reveal organizational issues and the construction process itself: sources of financing, provision of construction materials and personnel, deadlines and quality of work. The dissertations are devoted to the development of housing construction on the example of individual regions, territories and autonomous republics, regional specifics and conditions of its implementation on the ground are revealed. The researchers, relying on current methodological systems (modernization theory, the history of everyday life, new local history, etc.), reconstruct not only the dynamics of the increase in housing stock, but also the demographic prerequisites for the aggravation of the housing problem, socio-cultural factors of urban environment development, the problems of everyday life of citizens in new living conditions. The article provides a historiographical review of modern Russian dissertation researches on the history of housing construction in the RSFSR in the second half of the twentieth century. Historiographical publications are devoted to the main aspects of historical urban studies in dissertation researches or general issues of housing historiography using the example of monographs and articles. This article is based on dissertations by Russian researchers that have not previously been the subject of other articles. The advantages and disadvantages of the works, thematic gaps are revealed, and the contribution of scientists to the development of selected issues is determined. For example, the history of individual housing construction was not the subject of a separate dissertation. In the available works, the role of public organizations in solving the housing problem is poorly considered, there is almost nothing about the socialist credit system for the construction of individual housing. Despite the study of the issue on the example of many regions, the history of housing construction on the example of most subjects of the federation has not yet been considered. The topic of the history of mass housing construction has both theoretical, scientific, and practical, social and economic significance, since the housing stock in the regions is still largely provided by Soviet standard buildings, while the disadvantages of point and microdistrict buildings are reproduced in construction to this day.