Panel houses, which have become a symbol of the housing stock of the USSR, were not actually a Soviet invention. Their concept arose in France and was adapted in the Soviet Union to resolve the housing problem after the war.

French engineer Raymond Camus in 1948 patented a technology that could significantly speed up construction and reduce its cost.. It is thanks to this innovation that the famous Khrushchevs appeared in the USSR.

Raimon Camon first proposed to produce panels at the factory and mount them at the construction site, which allowed to build houses in record time. In 1954, the first panel production plant was built in France, and Camus received orders for the construction of thousands of apartments. This approach attracted the attention of many countries, including the Soviet Union.

In 1958, the USSR entered into an agreement with Camus to acquire its technologies and consultations. Soviet engineers modernized the French method and began building typical five-story buildings known as " Vitaly Lagutenko, the grandfather of the musician Ilya Lagutenko, played a key role in creating the Soviet series of the K-7 buildings, gathered in 12-14 days.