Wow! 30s and 40s visions of Moscow architecture.
Among the far-reaching projections of the first stalinist “five year plans”, the 1935 General plan for the reconstruction of Moscow overshadowed all others. According to this plan, Moscow was to become, in the shortest possible time, the showpiece capital of the world’s first socialist state. The General plan envisaged the development of the city as a unified system of highways, squares and embankments with unique buildings, embodying the ideas and achievements of socialism.
The high point of these is definitly the People’s Commisariat for Heavy Industry. I can see in my head processions of tractors and more esoteric tracked machinery crawl by on Maydays.
