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Ugsarmal bair (), or just Ugsarmal, is the term for prefabricated high rise panel building. Most of these buildings were built in the 1970s and 1980s with Soviet Union funding and Soviet designs.
Most of these buildings offered only small-sized flats to most inhabitants and were made to cheap quality standards while minimising the visual beauty of the buildings, at the same time they supplied a large share of Mongolia's population with flats equipped with modern amenities (tap hot & cold water, in-flat sanitation, central heating) which at the time were still quite rare in the country. Ugsarmals in Ulaanbaatar, Erdenet and Darkhan are often high-rises, while those in the aimag centers usually have only four floors. Most public flats in Mongolia, including those in Ugsarmals, were privatized in the early 1990s.
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