The Reconstruction of Moscow

the population and their consequent increased attendance at schools, libraries, parks, theatres, etc., and with the shortening of the working day, ever- greater demands are being made on transportation facilities. That is why the radical reconstruction of Moscow, and its municipal ser- vices and enterprises, -and the planning of Moscow as a city have been made questions of such profound im- portance by the Party and the government, and above all by Stalin himself. Concurrently with the work of reconstructing the municipal services and enterprises of Moscow, the Moscow Party and Soviet organizations, under the direct leader- ship of L. M. Kaganovich, have, in the course of recent years, worked out a general plan for the reconstruction of Moscow, which covers the planning of Moscow as a city as well as the construction and reconstruction of the municipal services and enterprises for the next ten years. This plan constitutes the basis of the historic decision of the Council of People's Commissars and the G.C. of the C.P.S.U. of July 10, 1935, on the reconstruction of Moscow^

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