The Reconstruction of Moscow

THE TEN-YEAR PLAN OF GREAT WORK

The decision of the Council of People's Commissars of the U.S.S.R. and the Central Committee of the G.P.S.U. lays down for the next decade an exceptionally compre- hensive plan of work for the reconstruction of Moscow and its municipal services and enterprises. This plan is designed to effect a radical improvement in the living and cultural conditions of the population of the city. Above all the fulfilment of this plan will greatly im- prove the housing conditions of the toilers of the Soviet ■capital. The present area of living space is approxim- ately 15,500,000 to 16,000,000 square metres as against 11,900,000 square metres in pre-revolutionary Moscow. "According to the plan, 15,000,000 square metres of hous- ing accommodation (nearly 2,500 houses) will be con- structed during the iipxt ten years, of which 3,000,000 square metres (about 500 hpuses) will be constructed in the course of the next three years— ^OO.OOO square metres in 1936. 1,000,000 square metres in 1937 and. 1,200,000 -squaref metres in 1936. Thus ш the course of the next ten years the living space of Moscou? will be doubled. In other words, a «lew Moscow Of the siame size as the present Moscow will

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