Definitely not a tourist district, but at least you can see, how the locals and the people from 3 continents are living there, during day and night. Different cultures, different habits. I was happy to see it, although you need earplugs and sleeping pills, too. There are simple windows, so you can hear the metro - which is at that place already runs on the surface - till late night and from early morning, also the neighbours , and everybody else in the street, who like to live more night than during the day. The apartment is clean and big enough, and there are buses and trolleybus as well to the center, you don't need to use the overcrowded metro. I did not meet our host, he sent his friend to pick me up, who sented his mother to pick me up, but it worked:-)