The scheme, which will also include shops and restaurants, has been called an "urban village" by the developer.

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They said its infrastructure would not be able to cope with such a large increase and it would change its character from a village to "an urban sprawl".

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Like the USSR itself, the building was an experiment in communal living: a self-sufficient urban village with its own shops and clubs and kindergarten.

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