The Reconstruction of Moscow

Obvodny Canal *a'nd the Yauza River are being widened -to 25-30 metres. On these embankments mainly apartment houses and public buildings will be constructed. Within the course of the next three years new buildings will face the river along the following embankments: Krasnaya-Presnenska- ya, Smolenskaya, Dorogomilovskaya, Berezhkovskaya, Prichalnaya, Kotelniche^kaya, Novo-Spasskaya and Ro- stovskaya. In the following seven years of the decade, new houses will be built along all the other embankments of the Moscow River, the Obvodny Canal and part of the embankments of the Yauza, from its estuary to the Sa- dovoye Circle. The existing network of Moscow streets will be supple- mented with a system of new streets "which will serve to relieve traffic in the centre and afford the city districts

Moscow River Embankment