DESCRIBE NEW SOVIET TOWNS AND SETTLEMENTS

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• Publication Date: August 17, 1951
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
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FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD PrO.
SUBJECT Economic; Geographic - City construction
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers; weekly periodical
WHERE
PUBLISHED USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED 31 Dec 50 - 6 Jua 51
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1950 - 1951
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DESCRIBE ftEW SOVIET TOWNS AND SETTLEMENTS
~Numbera in parentheses refer to appended eourcesJ
Near the Puture Stalingrad Gffi, a large and moder>A city ie now under con-
struction on the high bank oP the Volga River. It hsa no name yet, but its
builders tslready call it Pyatimorsk (City of Five Seas), because the city will
serve as a port for ships sailing on five seas, namely, the Black, Azov, Caspian,
Baltic, and White seas, The block of 20 buildings which are being erected in
the center of the future city are expected to be completed in July.(1)
The town is being built on the Volga's left bank, at the confluence of the
Akhtuba River. The mein street will be extended as a highway to connect the
town with the main construction project of the new Stalingrad GES.
'The two- and four-story buildings now under construction are of a permanent
nature, as they eventually will be occupied by the personnel of the hydroelectric
power plant now being built. In the: meantime, the houses will be occupied by
builders: A hotel with 160 rooms, sn administration building, a technical .school,
and a club with an auditorium for 800 persons will be located in the center of
the town.(2)
The first block of permanent brick houses with a total living apace oP
10,000 square meters is now under construction and is expected to be completed
within 3 months. It is estimated that by 1954 the city will have 65,000 in-
habitants.(3)
In connection with the construction oP the Kuybyshev GES, the present site
of the city of Stavropol' will be flooded permanently and, consequently, the
city will have to be moved to a new aite.(4)
Near the site of the Puture Kuybyshev GES, several workmen's settlements
late],y have develaped.(5) One of them is located on the high left bank of
tie Volga River, on the 'site of the former small village of Kuneyevka, and it
is called Komsomol"'"sk on the Volga by its builders.(6)
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The special comriittee to select a site for the first city on the Main Turk-
men Canal has completed its work, It was decided to build the city north of
the Takhia-Tash promontory. The plan of the city ie being prepared by the best
architects of Moscow, Leningrad, and Tashkent.(7)
In Estonia, the new city oP Kokhtla-Yarve developed on the site of a small,
insignificant village. At present, the new city has tihree schools, a movie house,
a miners' club, aid eight nurseries. A modern hospital was completed in 1950.(8)
The new city of Pechora was built during the postwar Five-Year Plan. It is
situated on the Pechora River at the point where the railroad crosses that river.
The city serves mainly as a transshipping point for the coal mined at the Vorkuta
mine.(9)
A new settlement for workers of the "Taentroener?pmontazh" Trust of the
Ministry of Electric Power Stations USSR has grown near the L'obnya railroad
station, 28 kilometers from Moscow. So far, 56 one- and two-story houses have
been completed. A movie house to seat 200 persons, a library, a restaurant, e
post off ice,~a drug store, and a hotel are nearing completion. It is expected
that in 1952 the settlement will be enlarged by 12 two-story apartment houses
and other buildings.(10)
In the Valkskiy Rayon of Latviit, preliminary work Yor the construction of
kolkhoz villages started during the :+inter so that scores of houses could be
moved to their new sites this spring. So Par, over 120 houses have been moved,
and~it is expected that from 130 to 280 more will be moved before the sowing
season. Most of the houses were dismantled and put together again on the new
sites, and a few were moved on rollers toyed by trectora.(11}
Although the town of Kalininsk does not appear on the map of the USSR, it
actually exists and is developing rapidly. The new town is located betveen
Nikitovka and Khatsapetovka in the Ukraine. During the past 3 years, more than
100,000 square meters of housing vere built in Kalininsk, and 80,000 square
meters of roads and sidewalks vere paved and asphalted. Large vorkers' settle-
mznts have developed, including Oktyabr'ekiy, Pervomayskiy, and Sotsgorodok.
About 2,000 vorkers have built their own homes there. A regular bus line op-
' eratea betveen individual mines, and the plants are connected with the town by
streetcar. It is planned to build an asphalt highway to Gorlovka end Yenekiyevo.
(12}
In the suburban district of Moscow, not Par from the nev site of the Moscow
University, a nev town of neat-looking, prefabricated, two-story houses, erected
along vide streets lately has developed. Several thousand vorkers live in the
town. At present, eight multistory houses are under construction, and two schools,
e club, hospital, and a kindergarten are nearing completion. In the near future,
it is planned to start the construction of an additional 30 multistory buildings
with a total floor space of 40,000 square metere.(13)
The Moscow suburban village of Kozhukhovo has added asphalt-surfaced streets,
green parks, and tall buildings. At present, three buildings of six, eight and
nine stories, respectively, are being added to the living apace of the village.
The three buildings consist altogether of 178 apartments which are earmarked for
teachers, construction vorkers, and their familiea.(14) '
Construction of a nev small town of scientists is beginning in the village
of Pavlovo, formerly Koltushi, where many laboratoriea.of the Institute of
Physiology imeni I. P. Pavlov are located. "Lenakademproyekt" ~eningrad Office
of the Academy of Sciences Planning Trust has been authorized to work out de-
tailed plans for the construction, building rights, and landscaping of this large
center of physiological science. On an area of 280 hectares, there x111 be com-
fortable homes for scientific vorkers and employees, laboratories for the study
of problems of higher nervous activity and the physiology of farm animals, and
special buildings to house experimental animals.(15)
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1. Moscow, Izvestiya, 13 May 51
2. Moscow, Ogonek, To 21, May 51
3. Moscow, Pravda, 30 Apr 51
4. Moakovskiy Komsomolets, 31 May 51
5. Ibid., 13 May 51
6. Moscow, Pravda, 6 Jun 51
7. Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 24 Apr 51
r,, Tallin, Sovetskaya Estoniya, 2 Apr 51
~. Moscow, Pravda, 19 Apr 51
10. Moskovskaya Pravda, 26 May 51
11. Riga, Sovetskaya I.atviye,.4 Apr 51
12. Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 31 Dec 50
i3. Moskovakaya Pravda, 22 May 51
14. Vechernyaya Moskva, 26 May 51
15. Leningradskays Pravda, 21 Mar 51
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