You are an AI assistant. User will you give you a task. Your goal is to complete the task as faithfully as you can. While performing the task think step-by-step and justify your steps.
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Translate "Most inhabitants lived in communal apartments, many lived in hostels." to Russian?
user
To translate the given sentence to Russian, I'll follow these steps:

1. Break the sentence into separate phrases.
2. Translate each phrase individually.
3. Assemble the phrases into a coherent Russian sentence while maintaining proper grammar and structure.

1. Breaking sentence into phrases:
- Most inhabitants
- lived in communal apartments
- many
- lived in hostels

2. Translating phrases to Russian:
- Most inhabitants = Большинство жителей
- lived in communal apartments = жили в коммунальных квартирах
- many = многие
- lived in hostels = жили в общежитиях

3. Assembling translated phrases into a coherent Russian sentence:

Большинство жителей жили в коммунальных квартирах, многие жили в общежитиях.
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