Генеральный план реконструкции города Москвы

living conditions of the toilers of the city have been considerably improved: the building of the under- ground railway and the Volga-Moscow Canal, the widening of the most important central streets and squares, the facing of the Moscow River banks with granite and the construction of improved roadways, public buildings, houses and schools, factory kitchens and public dining-rooms, mechanized bakeries and cold-storage plants, the development of central heat- ing, regularity in the supply of fuel to the population, increase in the water supply, improvement in sca- venging and drainage, etc. The great work now being carried out on the reconstruction of the municipal economy of Moscow and the still greater scope of the work to be carried out in the near future make it particularly important to have a set plan for the building of the city, since the extensive development of construction in Moscow without a unified plan may extremely complicate the life and re-organization of the city in the future. The Central Committee of the C.P.S.U. and the Council of People's Commissars of the U.S.S.R. re- ject the projects of preserving the present city intact as a museum-city and-of creating a new city outside the limits of the present one. The Central Committee of theC.P.S.U. and the Council ofthe People's Commissars of the U.S.S.R. also reject the proposals to demolish the existing city and to build a new city in its place according to a totally different plan. The Central Committee of the C.P.S.U. audi the .Council of Peo- ple's Comlmissars of the U.S.S.R. consider that in

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