Генеральный план реконструкции города Москвы

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Foreword

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The general plan for the reconstruction of the city of Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union, made public in July of this year, is the result of several years of extensive preparatory work. Numerous archi- tects, city planning experts, economists, engineers, physicians and other specialists, as well as broad masses of workers, took part in the discussion and preparation of this, plan. The intensive growth of Moscow during the post-revolutionary period; the construction of a great number of huge new industrial enterprises, the extensive development of the city's transport system; the increase in the cultural require- ments of Moscow's population — all this made imper- ative the immediate radical replanning and recon- struction of the city. The decision of July 10, 1935, herewith published in full, unfolds an extensive program of work on the all-sided reconstruction of Moscow, one which covers a period of ten years and one for the immediate three years. The basic idea and aim of the general plan of the city of Moscow is the creation of the

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