GREATER MOSCOW
TEN YEARS’ PLAN. [BY CABLE—PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.! LONDON, July 12. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Moscow correspondent says: The Soviet have adopted a ten-year plan for the reconstruction and enlargement of Moscow city to tivice Its present size. Dilapidated houses are to be demolished. New structures are to be erected, none of which must be less than six storeys high. All of the streets arc ,to be widened and asphalted. A great new Lenin’s Avenue is to be cut through the centre of the city. The city boundaries will be extended by more than 70,000 acres. The famous Red Square is to be doubled in size. Eleven new river bridges are to be built. Tire erecting of 530 schools, and 17 hospitals, and of 50 new cinema theatres is also included in the plan. “Izvestia” says: This plan is Russia’s latest challenge to the capitalist world where, such big scale reconstruction is impossible. The reconstructed Moscow will reflect the splendour of socialist existence.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 July 1935, Page 7
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