| In the Soviet period and for most families today, the most important real property consists of apartments and dachas. |
| I walked down the lane, passing the big dachas until I came to one where, inside the square yard, a woman appeared. |
| What were once rustic wooden dachas have deteriorated into shacks. |
| Dachas also played a major role in the conflict between then-President Boris Yeltsin and Ruslan Khasbulatov, chairman of the Supreme Soviet. |
| On the weekends, basking in the late May sunshine, Moscow appears nearly deserted with crowds of city-dwellers leaving for their dachas. |
| A man may boast of his home as his castle, but Russians are increasingly turning to building country homes and dachas that are plain, economical and rather small. |
