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Presented article describes memories and stories recalled by the residents of postindustrial estates of Będzin and Ruda Śląska. These stories tell about spaces, landscapes and places that have changed during their lifes. Analysis of interviews is focused particularly on residental areas and workplaces, but also includes some other places which came up during research and are significantly important to the interviewees. It is of interest how the interrelations between personal lifes and estates’ transformations reported in interviews can be described in terms of social and economical changes.

The author analyzes and interprets the housing practices of Muscovites in Soviet Russia of the 1930s through Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita. Literature is here used as a source of knowledge about the social world, and the author also makes numerous references to works on the subject of Bulgakov’s masterpiece. She shows how the fantastical picture presented in the novel, which in large measure corresponded to Bulgakov’s personal experience, brought to the fore those paradoxes of Soviet conditions that testified to the degeneration of the system.