The Reconstruction of Moscow

of the C.P.S.U. deems it necessary to effect the widening of the streets not only by demolishing buildings, but by ". . . immediately .clearing away the Shrubbery and lawns from the streets and removing trees planted along some streets (for example— Meshchanskaya, Kalayevskaya, Dorogomilovskaya, Tulskaya, etc.), which reduce the width of the streets and obstruct traffic." Moscow will be planned along the lines of its historical radial-circular system of streets. From the Avenue of the Palace of Soviets, bordering the Kremlin and the Kitay- Gorod, with its central squares; Nogin, Dzerzhinsky, Sverdlov and Revolution Squares, constituting as it were a constellation around the Red Square, radial thorough- fares diverge in all directions. These radial arteries wilt be intersected by circular streets. But to make this radial-; circular system of streets ainswer the requirements of the city of Moscow, it must be subjected to a number of radical improvements. The main streets of Moscow, which at present are 18 metres wide on the average, will be widened to 30-40 metres in the old part of the city, and the main thorough- fares and the streets in the new parts of the city will be widened to 70 metres and over. The embankments of the Moscow River will consti- tute the main thoroughfares of the city. Stalin was the first to point out the enormous importance of the Moscow River as the main thoroughfare of the city. At his initiative the banks of the Moscow River are being faced with granite and along the embankments broad thoroughfares are being built for through traffic. The roads along the embankments of the Moscow River are being asphalted and widened to 40-50 metres. The embankments of the

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