Prakfalvi Endre: Architecture of Dictatorship. The Architecture of Budapest between 1945 and 1959 - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1999)

public and city” (Emil Zöldy, József Győr) and the Pioneers’ (today children’s) railway, as organisations, was to “prepare children to enter society”.

The first section of the Pioneers’ railway (Jenő Fodor), connecting Széchenyi Hill and the Előre (Forward) stations, was opened by Ernő Gerő who, inspired by the Soviet example, had himself been the initiator of the whole project. The second section, running as far as Ságvári Grove, was completed in another eleven months; from this station the line was later to be continued all the way to the Hűvösvölgy terminus. It was at that time, too, that facilities intended for the World Youth Festival were built on Margaret Island; a stage, a child-care centre, etc. (László Jász- tér, Egon Pfannl, 1949). The first stage of the construction of Szabadság (Liberty) thermal bath (34-36 Dagály utca, district XIII) had been completed in the same year (Lajos Darvas).

1949 also saw the opening of the bus terminal of MAV- AÜT company (István Nyiri) on Sztálin (today Erzsébet) tér. Of all the modern buildings erected after 1945, this was the first to come under protection as a national monument.

Two significant works by the architects László Lauber and Jenő Szendrői are the buildings of the University of Agriculture (Horticulture; 1948-49) on the south side of Gellért Hill (44 Ménesi út, district XI) and the Iron and

The bus station in Erzsébet tér

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