Editing Moscow Metro (section)

====Industrialization====
[[File:Metro, thousands of sculptures of Lenin (7427587294).jpg|thumb|Statue representing the Soviet workers at [[Baumanskaya (Moscow Metro)|Baumanskaya]] station (1944)]]
[[File:MosMetro Avtozavodskaya 01-2017.jpg|thumb| [[Avtozavodskaya (Zamoskvoretskaya line)|Avtozavodskaya]] station (1943) features frescos that commemorate the USSR's [[Automotive industry|automotive]] and [[arms industry]]]]
Stalin's [[First five-year plan (Soviet Union)|first five-year plan]] (1928–1932) facilitated rapid industrialization to build a socialist motherland. The plan was ambitious, seeking to reorient an agrarian society towards industrialism. It was Stalin's fanatical energy, large-scale planning, and resource distribution that kept up the pace of industrialization. The first five-year plan was instrumental in the completion of the Moscow Metro; without industrialization, the Soviet Union would not have had the raw materials necessary for the project. For example, steel was a main component of many subway stations. Before industrialization, it would have been impossible for the Soviet Union to produce enough [[steel]] to incorporate it into the metro's design; in addition, a steel shortage would have limited the size of the subway system and its technological advancement.

The Moscow Metro furthered the construction of a socialist Soviet Union because the project accorded with Stalin's [[Five-year plans of the Soviet Union#Second plan, 1932–1937|second five-year plan]]. The Second Plan focused on urbanization and the development of social services. The Moscow Metro was necessary to cope with the influx of peasants who migrated to the city during the 1930s; Moscow's population had grown from 2.16 million in 1928 to 3.6 million in 1933. The Metro also bolstered Moscow's shaky infrastructure and its communal services, which hitherto were nearly nonexistent.<ref name="Jenks 2000 697–724" />