Prevent the destruction of the tram track on Vesnina https://petition.city.kharkov.ua/uk/6... Sound, Preview - Taras Petrenko / taraseq_petrenko Our instagram- / life_in._.kharkiv Our telegram - https://t.me/life_in_kharkiv Videos taken from the KruchinaFILM channel historical district of the city. Initially a residential complex of complex development of the social city type, built in the Ordzhonikidzevsky district of the city and located in the eastern part of Kharkov. It includes infrastructure that provides for the life and leisure of people and, as originally planned, the personnel of the Kharkov Tractor Plant (KhTZ). The social city was designed "from scratch" and was called upon to embody the city of the future, the ideal model of existence of the proletariat, where all household tasks, including cooking, were to be solved centrally. This residential area is separated from the KhTZ plant itself by a wide green strip. Many courtyards of houses are literally drowning in greenery. There are two parks and several squares here: V. V. Mayakovsky Park, Green Grove Park, Aleksandrovsky Square, Traktorozavodsky Square. The project of the social city "New Kharkov" for 113 thousand residents was completed by the Design Bureau under the NKVD under the leadership of Pavel Fedotovich Aleshin. The order for work was received on December 27, 1929. On March 28, 1930, a draft design of the KhTZ settlement was presented, and in April of the same year, the design work was transferred to the Kharkov branch of the State Institute for the Design of Ukrainian Cities. The settlement was laid out in May 1930. In April, all work on drawing up the project of the social city was transferred to the Kharkov branch of the Giprograd of the Ukrainian SSR, which was organized at that time. Despite the fact that the discussion about socialist resettlement that was taking place at that time could not but affect the course of work and “caused repeated changes and improvements even to completed objects”, all the work was completed in a surprisingly short time - in 40 days. In April 1930, at the Congress of City Councils of Ukraine, based on the report of the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs V. A. Balitsky, a resolution of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee was adopted, which approved the basic guidelines for the construction of New Kharkov. And finally, in 1931, the project of the KhTZ settlement was reviewed by the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the National Economy of the USSR G. K. Ordzhonikidze, who recognized it as “fully satisfying the needs of the given period”. Another, no less important problem posed to the designers was the question of the essence of the city of the new era. They write: “Cities are designed simultaneously with the industrial base, which is their foundation, they are called upon to serve a certain branch of industry, thought out and calculated from start to finish. Free disposal of the land fund, which is not subject to private collection in our cities. State, not private design and construction of residential complexes is also a guarantee of the thoughtfulness of the entire compositional plan ... socialist cities are built with an approach to the maximum comfort of servicing the population, provided that this service is equal and the contrast between luxury and poverty is excluded. In the "Task for the preparation of a general project for the planning and development of a socialist settlement at the Kharkov Tractor Plant" the authors formulate the main requirement for a new city built on the complete socialization of everyday functions and collectivization of public life: "The settlement must, with its entire layout, ensure the easiest possible reorganization of socialist life into a communist one," which from an architectural point of view requires a clear differentiation in space of various cultural and everyday service enterprises "with their maximum connectivity and interpenetration."