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Russian blogger and photographer Ilya Varlamov recently published photos he took during his visit to Armenia, in which he draws attention to the chaotic construction of residential buildings on the outskirts of Yerevan.
“A real Armenian has to plant a tree, raise his son and attach [sometimes a room, sometimes an entire floor] to his apartment on the outskirts of Yerevan. The districts of once neat, five-storey Soviet buildings on the outskirts of Yerevan now more closely resemble the slums of Shanghai.
“The unauthorized construction has reached such proportions that sometimes it’s impossible to pass from one house to another. Houses are overgrown with new rooms, new floors are added on top of roofs, and all the free space in courtyards is being covered with garages and ancillary buildings,” Varlamov writes on his blog.
