OREANDA-NEWS. On 16 June 2008 was announced, that more than 6 million sq m of dilapidated housing are to be demolished in Moscow by 2010.

“Over 6 million sq m of dilapidated housing are to be demolished by 2010,” Yury Roslyak, first deputy city mayor of Moscow, said at a live program on TV Tsentr television on June 10.

According to the official, a problem of the permanent 5-storey buildings is 36 million sq m including frame-and-panel and large panel houses. “In case of the complete demolition of this housing the program will drag on for 30-40 years,” Mr Roslyak noted.

The first deputy city mayor of Moscow added that the program of reconstruction of dilapidated housing had been worked out. First and foremost, it concerns the general overhaul of 9-12-storey dwelling houses.

Mr Roslyak emphasized that the cost of the program had come up to \\$25 billion.

The official said that it was planned to pull down the 5-storey houses only where it was possible to increase a number of square metres for municipal housing, where it wasn’t possible they would be reconstructed.