The collapse of the USSR led to the destruction of the centralized management system of enterprises serving the population, created to ensure the sustainable existence of public places in certain micro-districts: street spaces, cultural institutions, customer services, a network of institutions for children and teenagers while in school and for after-school leisure, structures of housing and communal services.

After the state funding was suspended, the system lost its usual management mechanism, and the spatial formations were transformed and adapted to the model of new socio-economic relations. The new spatiality of the post-Soviet micro districts turned out to be far from the world's modern ideas about the standards of the sustainable urban living environment.

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