THE MASTER PLAN OF THE RECONSTRUCTION OF MOSCOW IN ACTION

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• Publication Date: September 18, 1961
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is ohibited
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?The _Mastex? P~.aaa o~ the Rec~nstruc~io
o~ Nbscaw in Action'' ~~
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THE MASTER PLAN OF THE RECONSTRUCTION
0~~ MOSCOW IN ACTION
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THE MASTER PLAN OF THE
RECONSTRUCTION OF MOSCOVP IN ACTOIN
.. The grandiose programme of economic and
cultural det'olopm?nt and the inprovement of the
living standard of the Soviet people, adopted at
the 2lst Corl.gress ^f., the .Communist Party of the
Soviet UnS.on, has a bearing also upon the plan
for the devetop!i~~nt of the City of Moscow.
in the next seven years Moscow~s city planners
and builders ~vil1 concentrare on housing development
with the express purpose of doing away with the
housing shor~cage,
Nio~e th~.~n. 19, 000, 000 sq. metres of housing or
more than was built in the city in the several
preceding decades, will go up in Moscow-between
I959 and 1965 Of this total 5,0U0~000 sq, metres
will be c'istributed amor_g tenants of outdated
houses, which are to be p~~illos sown. It is
int~ ~~stiYlg to r~o~te that upwards of 6, U00 wooden
houc =s were demoli shec. in 14oscow in just the
three years of 1956-584
The process of renovating the cityts housing
vrill go cn in the years to follow. Old wooden-
house P42oscow will recede into the past for good.
In -1953, brick d~r1a11~ .n.gs made up 73 _ per cent of
Moscowts housing, ~~vhile in 1912-13 the percentage
~.~vvas 32., ~y 1965 tk~~ i,erccs.tage of solid and comfor-
tab_Le mad~::~~:.-~ ,.aomF;~ will rise ~to 91,
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The basic distinctive ~p.ature of the latest
stage in housing developvant is the trend to build
dwellings with flats desienad for just ono family.
It so happened that until recently the bulk of
Mascow~s housing consisted of -large flats. The two-
room flats wore 36 to 38 sq, metres, the three-room
flats up to 54 sq. metres, and the four-room flats
were still bigger. In early 1958 the average size
of a iVioscow flat was 4-6,9 sq. me~~res. As of 1958,
the dwellings built in the capital are standard
type, each flat in them being designed for one
family. The flats are 28 to 34 sq. metres, to suit
_ the average Moscow family of three or four.
Bettyeen 1959 and 1965 no less. than 600, 000 to
620,000 such flats will be built in NToscow.
The conveniences and sanitary amenities in
them will he improve. Before the Revolution only
22 per cent of the dwellings in 1vToscow had central
heating. In 195s that percentage had rison to 68.9.
Tn 1966 it will be 92.4 per cent,
In 1958, 37.8 per cent of the flats had baths.
By 1966 that figure will rise to '75 par cent,
whereas in Paris, for ex~.mp~_e, no more tiia.rl 8 to
I0 per cent of .all flats have batk~.s.
In 1958, all of 83 to 85 p~.r cent of~TJToscowts
housing had running Vrater and: plumbir_g. By 1966
that figure is to rise to 97 per cent The water
supply per inhabitant per ~.ay wi 11 rise to 600
litres, or ten-f o:1 d. compared .with the state. of
affairs before the Revolution,
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The continui,ztg. construction of gas ruains will
increase the city's gas supply 4,000 million cubic
metres in 1958 to 13,500 million cubic metres in
1965 This will enable the c9.ty;to convert totally
to the use of ~;as. By the end of the seven year plan
period gas will be the dominant fuel iri Moscow.
District heating will be greatly extended. Tizis
will markodly improve the sanitary state of the
Moscow air basin.
Between I95B and 1965 up to 50.000 mil.lin
rubles are to be put into city development, or
just ~s much as was put into it in the preceding 2
years. Compared with the previous seven years
(1952-~95s) capital investments will increase by
15,000 million rubles. Of the total,. 27,000 million.
rubles has been allocated to housing development acid
more 3,000 million rubles to the building of
schools, medical and~children~s institutions, cinemas,
.sports facilities and other public services.
The Seven-Year---plan provides for the building
of 265 schools (including 57 boarding-school),
kinder-gartens and nurseries for I00, 000 children,
hospitals for 19,000 bads, cinemas with a seating
capacity of 42,5D0, and hotels with 3,000 dooms
and suites. No less than I,7~0 now shops will open,
and more than I, 600 cafeterias, cafes and r.estaurani;s.
Markets laundries, bath-houses and many other
community services will also be built.
Much is to be done to improve public transport
facilities and road- and bridge-building. The subvray~
tracks will be extended 55 kilometres, and the
trolleybus lines 230 ~~i lome tre s . Thoroughf are s wi tri
a total area of 7.5 rnillio.n square kilometres vvill
ba built and the high--.speed 110-kilometre ci.raular
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Such, in outlino, are the current objectives
of building in Moscow,
Standard structural members and parts produced
at .specialized plants, the high level of mechani-
zation in preparatory job s, pre-assembly and pre-
finishing et plants and construction sites -- all
this in the recent years greatly reduced construction
time.
A total of I,374,00o sq. metros of housing was
built in 1956, the first year of the sixth five-
year period. In 1957 the figure rose to I,840,U00 sq.
metres, and to 2,400,-000 sq. metres in 1958. In
1959 the figure was .increased to 2a 700,000 sq.
metres. _
Extensive use of standard designs has had a
beneficial effect on the devolopment of industrialized
building,~More than g0 per cent of Moscow's
building projects in I95~ were of the standard type,
To cope with,the projected building programme
in the current seven years tive roust lay emphasis on
industrialization -- converting building into a
mechanized mass-production process of assembly of
large pre-fabricated structural members; ~ ~~
Large-block, and, particularly, large-panel
housing, which is the most sensible constructively
and econoriically, will. be stressed in the current
seven years.
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highway is to be completed. runnels to channol
traffic t ~ two levels and elevated pedestrian
crossings are being built at points of heaviest traf-
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Lately, large-p anal housing has been getting
more and more massive irl Nloscovv. Blocks of large-
panel houses are going .up in. the Noviye Cheryom~hki
area,~in Izmailovo, etc. However, the structural
members used in them, predominantly. of porous clay
and concrete panels produces? piecemeal ins metal
moulds, are already outdated.
New original techniques of industrially-
produced large thin-wall panels of reinforced
concrete reduce the weight of structural building
members to~one-third of the weight of brick walls,
halve the labour outlay in building and lower
costs about one a_nd a half times.
The new stage iri industrialized building is
highlighted chiefly by the continuous conveyer-
type vibrated roll-mill reinforced concrete panels
developed by enginears N.Kozlov and V.Bolshakov.
The rolling mill produces thin-wall panels of
a width equal to the height of one storey. The
length of the panels. is unlimited and depends on
transport and asse~~~bly possibilities. In practice,
d single panel may be used to wall in 2,3 and 4
rooms.
?The first vibrated roll-mill p annel houses are
now going up in the area of Prospekt iViira. After
summing up the experience accumulated there, mass
industrial production of such houses may be launched.
A block of vibrated roll-mill panel houses will
soon be built in Noviye Kuzminki.
Thirty-five rolling mi17.s are to be put into
operation in order ?to extend the use of vibrated
roll-mill members.
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Another original method of rolling pre-
stressed panels of the so-called "mobile-conveyar~'
type is being introduced. Pre-stressing wi_11 yield
an additional reduction in the weight of building;
members .and will lower consumption of buil`din{;
materials .
Furthermore,, the technique of total pre-
fabrication, developed bvr Enguneer V.Lagutenko, is
being gradually introduced in '.14oscow building. Tb.is
technique is based on the use of thin--wa:.l panc:?_;
produced in vertical moulds, A block of ho~ises of
this new type is going u~:~ at present in thc~
Rhoroshevo-Mnevniki area, The houce-buildin pla:~-
there can produce I00, 000 sq. metres of housir.~~; ::.
year. A few more such plants are to be esta'~,li ~'t~et:
in the near future . -
Experimental large-panel houses of other
structural typas are to be built in I9~~0. t'~rani~:;-
panel structures, for example, afford trie
architect great freedorl in solving the layaizt of
Mats. .This type of large-panel housebuildin~; i~