1.   Chickens and turkeys cluck about tiny patios next to simple brick huts.

2.   Everyone else is directed to a brick hut across the alley.

3.   He makes his home in Khutor Stepnoi, an outpost of Gundarovskaya that is little more than a handful of brick huts in the rolling fields.

4.   Loud explosions echoed down the valleys, shaking the walls of surrounding mud brick huts.