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CONSTRUCTION OF MOSCOW. V United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—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 twice its present size. Dilapidated houses are to be demolished. New structures are to be erected, none of which must he less than six storeys high. All of the streets are to he widened and asphalted. A great now Lenin’s Avenue is to he 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 bult. The erecting of 030 schools, and 17 hospitals, and of 50 new cinema theatres is also included fin the plan. The paper “fzvestia” 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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Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1935, Page 5
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