The Reconstruction of Moscow

nearly 30 per cent of all the Moscow streets and squares. Within the next ten years 10,000,000 new square metres of streets and squares will be surfaced, so that all the streets and squares of the city will be covered with asphalt. The only exception will be in the case of inclines which will be paved with small selts or paving brick, since asphalt makes inclines dangerous for motor-traffic, es- pecially in wet weather and when frosts make the ground slippery. According to the records of the old City Council, during 1908-11 Moscow paved an average annual ariea of 18,000 square sazhens (126,000 sq. ft.) with cobblestones. Had Moscow continued to treat its road surface at the same rate, it would have required seventy years to pave all the streets and squares of Moscow merely with cobblestones, to say nothing of asphalting.

Gorky Park of Culture and Rest