Only because it's Soviet-style doesn't mean it's bad.
Having lived in one, I don't recommend it.
Urban living means sense living. The best bet is to go for comfortable dense living.
I guess this is all a bit of a broken record but Tokyo has all the same potential problems as SF (Namely earthquakes), yet somehow has no housing shortage despite being denser. It's all a manmade issue.
Accepting this is acting as if there's no reasonable solution of just building normal apartments on more land. But of course that runs into social barriers.