Kharkov. Sovnarkom, pre-sobcom to Rakovsky

Copy: Kharkov. Chusosnabarm Lyubimov

All the trophy property of the Crimea [is] [at] present [in] sheets delivered [to] the center, in the coming week specially convened by the Central Commission for the seizure of war property by a meeting2of the interested departments, which includes a representative of the temporary meeting on Donbass, will be distributed. The corresponding share will be given to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, [in] particular Donbas. Also [in] the time of the Uppcentrocommission of Elisman to the Crimea, he was given an order for a full echelon of valuable property to Donbass, which [is] currently being carried out, about which there is already information [in] the center and Uchusoukr. The total removal is hampered by the lack of wagons, the tonnage for which is supposed to be found here. You will be immediately informed about everything provided to the Ukrainian SSR and Donbass. [In the] case of insufficiency of what you have been given, inform the pre-central commission to Rykov for possible additional leave.

March 31, 1921.

Chairman of the Labor Defense Committee Lenin.

Fund 2, op. 1, d. 17930 - original.

1The telegram refers to the trophies captured by the Red Army units in the Crimea during the fighting against the forces of Wrangel.

2Tsentrokomissiya on the seizure of military property - Central Commission of the Council of Labor and Defense of the RSFSR on the transfer of military property to civilian institutions.