V. I.

Lenin

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TELEGRAM TO KH. G. RAKOVSKY [2]

Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukraine
Kiev
Copy to the People’s Commissar for Military Affairs of the Ukraine

In view of the reorganisation of the health resort system
in the Republic and in the interests of providing treatment
and rest at health resorts for disabled servicemen and workers, exhausted Red Army men and weakened workers
from the north, urgent measures must be taken to protect
the southern health resorts won back by the Red Army.

Please give immediate orders to chiefs of army units operating in the south of Russia and on the Taurida
Peninsula to take the strictest steps to prevent destruction
or looting of medical appliances, buildings, inventory,
plantations, materials and supplies at the health resorts of
southern Russia and the Crimean Peninsula, Odessa, Golaya
Pristan, Berdyansk, Moinaki, Saki, Evpatoria, Sevastopol,
Balaklava, Yalta, Alupka, Gurzuf, Alushta, Feodosia, Kerch, and others.

Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s
Commissars [1]

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Notes:
[1]
The telegram was signed also by N. A. Semashko, People’s
Commissar for Health.— Ed.

[2]
This document was apparently drafted in the People’s
Commissariat for Health since it was typed on the Commissariat’s notepaper
and signed also by People’s Commissar for Health N. A. Semashko.