Apartment (from it. Quartier) - a type of dwelling, consisting of one or more adjacent rooms with a separate external output, amounting to a separate part of the house. On the housing legislation of the Russian Federation apartment - structurally separate room in an apartment building, providing direct access to the common areas in a house, and consists of one or several rooms, and places auxiliary use, designed to meet the domestic and other needs of the citizens, associated with life in this room