Originally Posted by
Kulverstukas
It's not country-wide, it's usually local community. Possibly, in USSR time this patches was provided for airport workers (see, it's just 400 sq.m each) for growing fruits and vegetables. Usually it was in form of non-pofit cooperative. I think that if you put
"aeroflot village" in google map you will find a thousands of them.
Kulverstukas would I be correct in thinking that in the past the area was used as "allotments". This is the term in the UK to describe small plots of land provided by a local authority to the people of the community, to grow vegetables for their own use. Has the land since been developed for residential occupation or does it continue to be used as allotment land. It is just that it seems so close to the runway.