V. I.

Lenin

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To:   THE PEOPLE’S COMMISSARIAT FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND THE ALL-RUSSIA EXTRAORDINARY COMMISSION

P.C.F.A.

All-Russia Cheka

I have been informed that the trip abroad by Grigory
Semyonovich Petrov , a chemist and an inventor, is being,
impeded.

Petrov has a mandate from the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Trade, signed by Voikov, dated 29/III–1921,
No. 1554 (A) 012.

There is a decision by the committee for assessing inventions of 9/II-1921, awarding Petrov a prize of 15
million rubles, etc. (signed by Mikhailovsky).

I request the P.C.F.A. and the All-Russia Cheka to issue instructions to let him go abroad at once. If there
are any obstacles to this, please inform me right away.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin )

Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

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