communal apartment: The communal apartment was the common type of housing in USSR towns in which a couple of families lived together.

DAU:  A project conducted by Ilya Khrzhanovsky. During 10 years, around 40 people went to live in a reconstructed « science city » of the USSR. The exhibition was set in Paris in february and will probably be presented in London and Berlin later in the year.

DAU Town: the reconstructed town of Kharkiv

Ilya Khrzhanovsky (IK): a Russian film director, his other main work is 4.

Ostalgia: This term is used to describe the feeling of nostalgia experienced by east germans after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the USS

Memorabilia: The fact of keeping objects to remember something of the past.