Moscow, Sept, 24.
The city population of the Soviet Union and especially that in cities and towns which came into dite only during the Soviet regime, is, according to " report carried by "Pravda," steadily on the increase. The new cities of Stalinsk and Magnitegorsk have now a population of 46,000 and 64,000 respectively. Stalingrad boasts of 294,500 heads, while in 1924 it had 90,400, The average annual increase in this city is stuted to be 25 per cent. The city of Makeyvka, in the Donetz. Basin, is growing annually by 19.2 per cent., Sverdlovsk by 15 per cent. Nishni-Novgorod by 14.4 per cent, and Grosny by 13.8 per cent. The inhabitants of Moscow and Leningrad registered an average annual increase from 1926 to 1931 of 9 per cent.
The total population of the Soviet Union has since 1926 increased by 16,150,000, standing now at about 163,000,000 as against 147,000,000 in 1926. In accordance with a decision of the Council of People's Commissaries, a new census will be token in 1933, Preparatory work for it will immediately be started under the chairmanship of the economist Ossinsky.—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.
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