Генеральный план реконструкции города Москвы

Decision of the Council of People's Commissars of the U.S.S.R. and of the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U.

Moscow, which for many centuries had developed in chaotic fashion, reflected, even in the best years of its development, the barbaric character of Rus- sian capitalism. The narrow and crooked streets, the districts intersected by a multitude of lanes 'and blind alleys, the uneven distribution of buildings between the centre and the outskirts of the city, the centre encumbered with warehouses and small enterprises, the low, decrepit houses huddled together, the haphazard distribution of- the industrial enter- prises, railroads, and other branches of economy and public service hinder the normal life of the rap- idly developing city, particularly in respect to traffic, and make imperative a radical and planned recon- struction. The Central Committee of the C.P.S.U and the Council of People's Commissars of the U.S.S.R. place on record the fact that on the basis of the decisions of the June 1931 Plenum of the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U. extensive work is being done in con- nection "with the reconstruction of the municipal economy of the city of Moscow, thanks to which the

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