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N. A. Miliutin’s often cited but seldom consulted Sotsgorod is a landmark in the history of city planning. Written by a Soviet functionary at the height of controversy in the USSR about the direction in which socialist planning should go, it represents a unique effort to draft a physical plan that is the embodiment of a modern social, political, and industrial creed.

N. A. Miliutin’s model plan for a Stalingrad tractor plant (Fig. 14 of the 94 illustrations and diagrams in his book; see here within this volume) has been illustrated on countless occasions as one of the major theoretical industrial plans of our century. It has been recognized as the source of Le Corbusier’s cité linéaire industrielle of the 1940s (Pl. 1), and it is clearly the transitional step between Tony Garnier’s cité industrielle of c. 1900 (Pl. 2) and the codified planning principles of the Athens Charter that were worked out by members of the CIAM when they were dis-invited to meet in Moscow in 1932–33.

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