Erecting Russia's First Modern City, 1930
by
Richard Cartwright Austin
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2000
Perhaps the most challenging project under Stalin's first five-year plan was the race to build Europe's largest automobile factory and an adjacent city in just 18 months. The site was Nizhny Novgorod, later named Gorky. To design and construct both factory and city, Soviet officials approached the...