In June this year, the Moscow Duma unanimously approved the demolition of more than 4,000 apartment blocks in various sites across the sprawling city, home to nearly 2 million people. The prototypeYulia Fedosova and her son, Maxim, live in a typical five-storey concrete-panel apartment block. Factories were built, workers retrained, and by the mid-60s this modest, prefabricated style of apartment block had sprung up like clusters of mushrooms everywhere from Minsk to Vladivostok. Above all, Fedosova fears being exiled in “New Moscow”, the hastily erected towers on the city’s periphery, many of which remain unsold. According to the Moscow Development Department’s interactive map, which shows all the properties scheduled for demolition, 80 apartment blocks will be removed in just this one locale.

Source: The Guardian October 31, 2017 07:15 UTC