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Tiigi 78 ja 80 korterelamu

Historitsistlik üürimaja püstitati 1890. aastatel ja tegemist oli tollase Tartu ühe suurema kiviehitisega. Teise maailmasõja ajal oli hoone kordamööda Saksa ja Nõukogude sõjaväe valduses. 1947. aastal anti hoone ülikoolile ühiselamu rajamiseks, hädapäraseid remonditöid aitasid teha Saksa sõjavangid. Siin elas mitusada ajaloo-keeleteaduskonna, matemaatika-loodusteaduskonna ja õigusteaduskonna üliõpilast. Kui 1964. aastal valmis mõnisada meetrit eemal aadressil Tiigi 14 ühiselamuhoone, hakati siinset maja nimetama vanaks Tiigiks. Alates 1970. aastatest kasutati maja õppehoonena, 1990. aastate algusest kuni 2011. aastani tegutses siin sotsiaalteaduskond. 1972.–2013. aastal asus hoones ülikooli kirjastus. Ülikool müüs maja 2012. aastal ja see renoveeriti korterelamuks.

Kirjanik Ardi Liives kujutab ühiselamuelu oma esikromaanis „Retro“:
„Osa tube olid väiksed, osa suured kui küünid, paljud olid läbikäidavad, uksed prõmmisid hommikust õhtuni, kogu aeg tõtati treppidest üles ja alla – elu kees majas nagu sipelgapesas ning mõtted rahust ja vaikusest võis valvetuppa sisenedes heaga ukse taha jätta. […] Ainuke koht, kus rahulikult vaikus valitses, oli õppetuba – piklik laudu ja toole täis tuubitud ruum õuepoolse tiiva esimesel korrusel. Tihti – eriti eksamite ajal – oli see tudengitest pungil, sest oma toas õppimisest tuli harva midagi head välja. Selles majakolakas söödi ja magati, õpiti ja logeldi, käidi vastastikku teiste toas lobisemas, konspekte laenamas või kaarte mängimas, siin peeti pidusid ja sünnipäevi; aastas korra või paar haaras kogu internaati taevas teab millest tekkinud mürgeldamistuhin ja lahti läks üleüldine veesõda: akendest lendas vett õuesolijaile kaela – oli see siis oma või võõras –, ämbritäied läigatati tüdrukute tubade uste vahelt sisse, koridorid ujusid, mõni ettevõtlikum tiris keldrist voolikugi välja, komandant jooksis mööda maja ringi, karjus ja riidles; sama ootamatult, kui kõik oli alanud, kõik ka lõppes, nüüd korrastati kiirustades lahinguväli […].“

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Tiigi 78 and 80 apartment block

This historic rental apartment building was erected in the 1890s. At the time, it was one of the biggest stone buildings in Tartu. During the Second World War, the building was taken over by the Germans and then the Soviet military. In 1947, the building was granted to the university to open a student residence. German prisoners of war helped to complete emergency repairs. Several hundred students of history and linguistics, mathematics, natural sciences and law lived here. In 1964, the Tiigi 14 student residence was built a few hundred metres away. After that, this building was known as Old Tiigi. Starting in the 1970s, the building was used as a study building. From the early 1990s to 2011, the Faculty of Social Sciences operated here. From 1972–2013, it also housed the University Press. In 2012, the university sold the building, and it was renovated as an apartment block.

Writer Ardi Liives wrote about life in the student dormitory in his debut novel Retro: “Some rooms were small, others as big as a barn, many were walk-through rooms. Doors were slammed from morning till night, and someone was always running up and down the stairs. Life in the building was like living in an anthill. You could leave any ideas of peace and quiet at the door when going to the lounge. […] The study room was the only place that remained peaceful and quiet. It was a long room on the ground floor of the garden wing, packed with tables and chairs. Often, especially during the exam period, it was full of students. Rarely did anything good come out of studying in your room. This rundown house was where you ate and slept, studied and lounged around, wandered about chatting, borrowing notes from or playing cards with other people in their rooms. Here you’d have parties and celebrate birthdays. Once or twice a year, god knows what would come over the dormitory, and a water fight would break out. Water flew out the windows onto passers-by, whether they were strangers or our own lot. Buckets full of water were thrown into the girls’ rooms from the cracks between their doors. The hallways were flooded. One particularly enterprising individual got the hose from the basement. The administrator ran around the house yelling and screaming. And just as suddenly as it had started, it would be over, meaning it was time to quickly clear up the battlefield […].“