THE FACE OF MOSCOW

Everybody talks about Moscow, but few have any picture of the city in their mind's eye--the kind of picture that forms at the mention of London or New York or Paris. On the opposite page are some postwar Moscow pictures. Like postcard shots anywhere, they put the best face on the city: behind the big buildings are acres of slums. The girder-skeleton (top left) is for a 26-story office building on Smolensky Square, not very imposing in Manhattan but a colossus in Europe. The splendid subway station is on the newly opened Great Circle link (TIME, Nov. 14). Most of the shiny autos, which are on their way to a soccer game at the Dynamo Stadium, are owned by the Soviet elite--Communist Party members and officials. The women bricklayers (bottom left) are putting up a new building on Gorky Street, one of the best-looking thoroughfares in downtown Moscow. Here & there through the rising new city there remain impressive glimpses of old Moscow: Byzantine Red Square (top right) and Sverdlov Square with its Habsburgian accents (bottom, right) are monuments of the Czarist regime.

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