The general plan of the city, or rather the general layout of the plan, was developed only by 1939 by the Leningrad branch of Giprogor. The author of the project was the architect Suborov. The first post-war reconstruction plan was made in Lengiprogor under the direction of architect V.A. Gaikovich. Since 1950, the team of authors, including Professor V.G. Gelfreikh and architects V.A. Gaikovich and Yu.V. Shchuko. The rapid development of Orel required the development of a new general plan, which was drawn up in 1958 (VA Gaikovich, A.M. Suborov - "Lengiprogor"). The center of Eagle was Lenin Square, on which the House of Soviets was erected in 1961. In 1966, the construction of embankments began, which regulate the channel of the Orlik and Oka rivers within the central (geometrically) district of the city.