132 Baroque

A streamlined sports car stopped in front of the Moscow city hall and attracted everyone's attention. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The avant-garde and epoch-making appearance design of the sports car certainly attracts everyone's attention, but the superb Mao Mei who comes out of the car is the highlight of men. And the man who accompanied Mao Mei and held Mao Mei's jade hand also became the object of jealousy.

This superb hairy girl is Katia, and the man who is jealous is Manturov. They did not notice those eyes, their minds were on the issue of housing and food supplies in Moscow.

"Alyssa (ะะปnca)!" As soon as she returned to her office, Katia called out the name of her new secretary, "Help me get some documents about the construction of houses in Moscow, the more the better." โ€

"Yes!" The conscientious Alyssa saw the unfamiliar man beside Katia and asked, "Comrade Secretary, may I ask who this one is next to you?" โ€

Katya shook off Manturov's hand and said to Alisa: "This is the First Deputy People's Commissar for Construction, Comrade Vladimir Fedorovich Manturov. We will discuss issues related to the construction of Moscow's cities. โ€

Katya is bent on establishing a clear distinction between public and private, hardworking, conscientious, and rigorous in the Moscow party organization, so she does not expose the intimate relationship between her and the man next to her. Otherwise, the news of her intimacy with her husband at work will soon spread, and even if she works overtime every Saturday and Sunday like today, she will not be able to recover the loss of her image.

Although Katia didn't say anything, Alyssa could see the unusual relationship between them from the actions of the two just now. "Do you need to write it in the visitor record?" Alyssa, dutiful, asked with a smile.

"Write, of course write!" Katia said solemnly: "Although today is Saturday, how can the record of the visit of the People's Commissar not be written? โ€

Katia's office isn't huge, but it has everything you need. Desks, document shelves, bookshelves, and other basic furniture are complete, and two Soviet flags are set up behind desks, on either side of the seats. The only thing that is lacking is the "must-have" statue of Stalin, which she deliberately removed.

There are several windows on the left side of the office, facing Tver Street, opposite Tver Square. And, of course, the completed Tverskaya Strasse 8 โ€“ the future home of the two.

The city hall was built in 1783 at 13 Tverskaya Strasse and is a magnificent Baroque building. The bright red exterior walls, the luxurious wheel corridor, and the delicate and ornate sculptures are beautiful no matter how you look at them.

Whether it's the landscape or the appearance of the office building, Katia now works in a better environment than Manturov. Manturov's office is not so open, and it is also some distance from his future new home.

"Katyusha, your office is good." Admiring the Baroque interiors, Manturov said: "When I first came to Moscow, I was looking at these. โ€

"No, Volodya." Katia pointed to herself and said, "I think that's what you want to see the most." โ€

Manturov deliberately teased: "You are not here to see, but to kiss and hug." โ€

Just then, Katia's secretary, Alyssa, appeared at the door. "Comrade Secretary, the documents you need."

Katia reverted to her serious appearance. "Elisa, I'm tired, you put the document here, and I want to study it with Comrade People's Commissar."

"Comrade Manturov," Katya said politely, pointing to the seat in front of her, "please take a seat." โ€

Manturov also pretended to be in serious mode. "Comrade Secretary, as we have just seen, there is still much room for improvement in the living conditions of the pure proletariat in Moscow. First, the lack of living space for citizens has led to many quarrels and social problems; Second, there are still apartment units that do not have bathrooms, which has caused some hygiene problems. โ€

"Yes, many people use unscrupulous means such as fake marriages and reporting neighbors to get living space." Although Alyssa was far away, Katia still maintained that serious expression. "In these cases, I think you should have been exposed to many similar cases when you were the secretary of the state party committee."

"It's not enough for law enforcement to deal with these issues." Manturov frowned: "First, it is difficult to trace, and second, the root cause of insufficient living space has not been solved, and similar cases will only increase." โ€

Katia looked at each other with ambiguous eyes, but said in a serious tone: "Then how should we solve the housing problem?" In Novosibirsk, you mobilized tens of thousands of Gula prisoners to build new apartments, and soon a large number of houses were supplied. And the supply of housing in the Novosibirsk region is not a big problem, the population of the municipalities is not large, and a large supply quickly solves the problem in this regard.

But in Moscow, a city of more than four million people, three-quarters of its citizens live in shared apartments. This means that three million people are facing problems caused by the lack of living space.

Based on an average household size of three people, we would need to build at least 1 million apartments to ensure that every family has one apartment. โ€

"The situation in Moscow is indeed a bit troublesome, and having every family have their own apartment is probably not a goal that can be achieved in the short term. It could take seven years, ten years, or even longer to reach this goal.

In the coming time, what we want to do is to provide more living space for those citizens who only have 2-4 square meters of living space. For example, a family of 5 people crammed into a 10-square-meter room should be accommodated into two rooms or moved to a larger room.

Of course, we need to build a sufficient number of apartments to allocate before we can make arrangements. In Moscow, the available human and construction resources are limited, but the construction methods can be improved, so consider building some new prefabricated apartments. โ€

Katia's eyes lit up, and a pair of beautiful eyes shone with a charming light. "You're talking about those Manturovian apartments in Novosibirsk? I think so too. โ€

Manturov nodded, then took advantage of the situation to kiss his wife. "The construction of the apartment project in Moscow is not going very well, and it took three years to build 8 Tver Avenue opposite. And in Novosibirsk, a number of second-generation Manturovian apartment projects of the same size were built in just eight months.

Moreover, there is not much difference in appearance between the second-generation new apartments and the Stalinist apartment buildings, and the living environment inside is not far behind. โ€

Katya also took advantage of the situation to kiss each other, "Volodya, I really want to move into 8 Tverskaya Street quickly." In this way, we have our own little world in Moscow and live back to the life we had in Novosibirsk. โ€

"Don't you want to continue living in the marshal's big villa?"

"There are too many people in the villa, there are my family, servants, and from time to time there will be a Politburo member, a general or something to visit, everything we say will be heard, everything we do is easy to be discovered, there is no privacy at all. And it's far from where you and I work, it's not convenient to go back and forth, even if you have a sports car, how fast can you drive on the roads in Moscow? โ€

"Okay, I'll go to the People's Commissariat for Construction now to get some documents about the second-generation prefabricated apartment, and you can use them when you have a meeting next Monday."

Although the Manturov apartment has been on the market for more than a year, it has been highly praised by many experts, residents, and even Stalin, and has been promoted. The cities of Omsk, Chelyabinsk and Svidlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) have also started to build new apartments, but there are still no plans to build them in Moscow and Leningrad.

In the western regions, including Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev, there are still party and government officials who are concerned about the quality and safety problems caused by the pace of construction of Manturov-style apartments.

These places are too far away from Novosibirsk, there is not a lot of communication between the two places, and the local government has not sent relevant commissioners to Novosibirsk to inspect it, so it is not aware of the actual situation.

Omsk, Chelyabinsk, and Svidlovsk, on the other hand, due to the frequent exchanges with Novosibirsk, and the return of some new cadres from Novosibirsk Technical University, have given their opinions and the actual situation to the above. As a result, these cities in the Urals and Siberia, which were also facing housing supply problems, quickly launched relevant plans.

The plan to build a Manturov-style apartment is important for Katya, and if her plan is effective in alleviating the shortage of living space in Moscow, it will be an opportunity to prove her strength and establish her leadership.