The Reconstruction of Moscow

present Kirovskaya and Arbat Streets — Novo-Kirovskaya and Novo-Arbatskaya Streets — are also being planned. In the same way, Moscow's circular thoroughfares and squares will be reconstructed. The area of Red Square will be doubled by demolishing the building of the former State Department Stores. The central squares surrounding the Red Square — Nogin, Dzerzhinsky, Sverdlov and Rev- olution Squares — will also be among the first to be re- constructed. In accordance with the decision, Kitay-Gorod is being cleared of small structures, in place of which several monumental government buildings are being erected. .Zaradye, a part of Kitay-Gorod, has been designated as the site of the new building of the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry. / A very important part of the planning of Moscow is the creation of four streets/ running past the centre and •connecting the various districts of the city. These streets wjll be direct thoroughfares between 1) the White Rus- sian-Baltic Railway Station and Komsomolsky Square, 2) the White Russian-Baltic Railway Station and the square in front of the Kiev Railway Station, Komsomolsky Square and Abelmanovskaya Zastava, and 4) Shelepikha, October Square and the Stalin Automobile Plant. The replanning of Moscow involves the abolition of small residential blocks with an area of 1.5 to 2 hectares, and the formation of new residential blocks to cover an area of 9 to 15 hectares. The houses will be not less than >6 storeys and up to 10 to 14 storeys. To ensure that the population has the most healthful living conditions, all enterprises which are fire hazards or "which are injurious from the point of view of sanitation "will be gradually removed from Moscow. In a number of cases the reconstruction of the city

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