The Reconstruction of Moscow

direct communication with each other without necessarily passing through the centre of the city." The task of relieving the centre of a big city like Moscow from heavy traffic is one of the most important tasks in the planning of the city. This task is all the more complicated because Moscow is built on a radial-circular system wherein ^11 the radial thoroughfares converge on the comparatively small central part of the city. That is why the decision of the Gouhcil of People's Commissars and the Central Committee of the C.P.S.tJ. projects the formation of a new avenue extending from Dzerzhinsky Square to the Palace of Soviets, Luzhniky and thence across the Moscow River to the Lenin Hills and the new southwestern district. This thoroughfare will greatly relieve the centre, by assuming the main burden of traffic. Besides this central avenue of the Palace of Soviets, three new thoroughfares are being built, which will cut through the entire city in the following directions: 1) froim Izmailovo Park to the Lenin Hills, 2) from Vsekhsvyat- skoye along the Leningrad Highway to the Stalin Auto- mobile Plant, and 3) from Ostankino Park across Marina Roshcha, Rozhdestvenka and across the Moscow River to Bolshaya Ordinka and Malaya Ordinka, Bolshaya Tul- skaya and the Serpukliovsky Highway. These three thoroughfares from northeast to south- west, from northw T est to southeast, and from north to south- will be the main thoroughfares of the city, each being 15 to 20 kilometres long. In addition, there will be three new radial streets in the east end of Moscow: 1) from Nogin Square to Prolom- naya Zastava, 2) from Yauzskiye Vorota to the Stalin Automobile Plant, 3) from Pokrovskiye Vorota to the Kursk Raihvay Station. Two streets to run parallel to the

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