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...institutions of higher learning, 103 technical schools, 487 elementary and secondary schools (412,000 pupils), 25 theatres, 42 moving picture houses, 37 museums, 107 scientific research institutes, 89 hospitals, 262 dispensaries, 240 nurseries and 21 stadiums including the huge K. I. M. (Communist Youth International) stadium west of Vasilyevski Ostrov (island), Leningrad's Greenwich Village. Tsarist slums have been replaced by modern workers' houses, gutters by sewers, alleys by paved streets. In 1938 Leningrad spent 364,000,000 rubles ($72,800,000) on construction work alone. The city's total budget was 1,140,000,000 rubles...
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