Appreciate Vladimir opening up his apartment but would not recommend to other travelers. If crunchy towels, dead houseplants, and 1/2 empty bottles of Malort on top of dusty refrigerators are your style, then maybe this place is more for you than me.
To elaborate in a more useful capacity: we found this AirBnB lacking. From the lack of kitchen items (missing coffee maker, mainly disposable cups/plates instead of glassware) to having to use bathroom washcloths in the kitchen bc there were no other towels for handwashing, things were less than ideal. The living room was littered with dead plants and all the closets were being used for storage. The shared stairwell reeks of smoke and has piles of cigarette butts (hard to avoid bad neighbors I know) but apartment entrance is still unkept + dirty. All the windows needed to be left open due to the smoke smell seeping up to the apartment. While beds and floors were clean and freshly washed, if you looked around there was evidence that some areas hadn't been cleaned in years. If it weren't for the fresh laundry smell and the dryer full of sheets, I would never have believed the beds were clean.
Vladamir offered to bring us a coffee maker when I asked about the missing item, but it never arrived. I can tell he is trying, but it leaves a guest wanting much more.
The vibe was less vacation-stay-worthy and more abandoned-college-dorm.