Moscow [antikvár]

Moscow became the capital of the Soviet Union in March 1918, four months after the Great October Socialist Revolution. Soviet people say that Moscow is the heart of the Soviet Union. It is, indeed, the biggest political, economic, scientific and cultural centre. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, and the Soviet government are located in the capital. Here are concentrated the state and government organs which control the life of the whole vast country with its population of over 260 million. Moscow is also the capital of the RSFSR, the biggest of the fifteen Union republics which make up the USSR. It was in Moscow on 7 October 1977 that, after nationwide discussion, the new