NEW TOWNS AND SETTLEMENTS SPRING UP IN USSR

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 31, 2011
• Sequence Number: 130
• Publication Date: January 24, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY USSR DATE OF
SUBJECT Economic - Construction, new towns INFORMATION 1951
:-.HOW DATE DIST.-W Jan 1952
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers; weekly periodical
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NEW TOWNS AND SETTLEMENTS SPRING UP IN USSR
This report gives information on new towns and settlements being
constructed or developed in the USSR.
R6SR
A new town, Sta]'stroy is under construction in the vicinity of Moscow,(l)
Th6 settlement of Fryazino near Moscow is developing rapidly. Recently,
a small village located in dense woods, it is now becoming a small town with
asphalt streets and bright two and three storied buildings for the workers of
the textile factory, asphalt plant, and other enterprises. It has a library,
secondary school, hospital, scientific institute, and technical institute. An
asphalt highway connects cryazino with the town of Shchelkovo.(2)
The construction of Boksitogorsk, a newly developed town of miners in
Leningrad Oblast, is progressing rapidly. Stone houses and public buildings
are being erected and, in 1951, 11,000 square meters of living space are to be
made available for use.(3)
The small town of Polovinka in Molotov Oblast has been renamed Ugleural'sk.
A newly developing city of Ural miners, it already has dozens of schools, a
Palace of Culture, clubs, 16 libraries, 19 kindergarten, 48 shops, 27 restaurants,
and 3 hospitals.(4)
Bashkir ASSR
The youngest city of the USSR, Oktyabrskiy, is located in the, center of
the Tuymazy petroleum fields, which are among the most important of the "Second
Baku." It is located on the right bank of the Ik River, which is the left
tributary of the Kama River. The majority of the houses built along the city's
200 streets are multistoried. The completion of 30,000 square meters of the
living space is contemplated for 1951.(5)
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The growth of the Uzbek SSE economy has led to the construction of such
new towns as Angren, Begovat, Chirchik, Ktvasay, Leninsk, and Yangi-Yul'.(6)
Chirchik is a young town which developed from the small steppe oettlement
.of Kirgiz-Kulak into an important industrial center of Uzbek SSE* Its in-
dustrial enterprises include plants manufacturing agricultural machinery, a
footwear factory, a sewing factory, and a glass factory.(7)
Turkmen SSR
Preliminary work has started to develop. the small settlement of Anchayar
into a town. So far, the work has been confined to planning and building the
foundations for the prefabricated houses which have started to arrive. Plans
call for making 6,000 meters of houses and buildings available for use in 1951.(8)
Tadzhik SSR
A new tarn, Novabad, has grown up in the last year on the banks of the
Surkhob River in the mountains.(9)
Kazakh SSR
Buildings have been added to the newly developed settlement of Vtoroy
Kordon, which is not far from Tekeli in Taldy-Kurgan Oblast. Miners have
settled in 67 two-story brick houses while nearly 100 one-story buildings
have also been constructed. The settlement has four boilers for steam heating
its living quarters.(10)
SOURCES
1. Moekovskiy ?tr t:1'7 ?-
2. Moekovskaya Pravda, 25 Sep 51
3. Leningradskaya Pravda, 17 Jul 51
4. Moscow, Ogonek, No 42, Oct 51
5. Moscow, Trud, 1 Jul 51
6. Tashkent, Pravda Voetoka, 24 Oct 51
7. Moscow, Pravda, 20 Aug 51
8. Ashkhabad,Turkmenskaya Iskra, 11 Aug 51
9. Pravda, 24 Jun 51
10. Alan-Ate, Kazakhatanskaya Pravda, 12 Oct 51
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