> Dennis is I suspect thinking of
> either an older (Stalin-era) or newer (post-Gorbachev) neighborhood. Like
> my old one, which is indeed mostly green, with a big lake.
Nope, it was a Brezhnev-era development, built in the early 1970s, I think. Of course, I visited in 1995, so the infrastructure wasn't as run down as would later get.
-- DRR