Over the direct wire

Kharkov. To Ukrnarkomprod Vladimirov

Copy: Moscow. Central Committee of the RCP to Molotov

Copy: Moscow. STO

By telegram [dated] January 10 [signed by] Distribution1* Leontiev it was reported: [according to] the data of the Oprodkomtrudarm, the available balance [as of] the first of January meets the needs of the Central] Department of the coal and coal industry approximately [until] February 20, and in addition [during] the first six days of January one hundred and seventy wagons arrived [at] the firm address of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and one hundred and sixty-one wagons were on their way [as of] January 10. Meanwhile, a telegram [dated] January 11, addressed by the Central Committee of the RCP to Molotov, a copy to Pre-Sovnarkom Lenin [with] the signatures of Ordzhonikidze, Chubar, Manuilsky and Quiring informs that the Donbass has bread for only two weeks, the arrival is negligible, [in] certain districts there are disruptions, without the immediate arrival of food, the decline in coal production is inevitable. Bearing in mind the necessity of timely meeting the needs of the coal mining industry, whose productivity must be brought [to] its maximum, confirming the telegram of January 12, No. 01009, I categorically insist: 1) [on] taking all decisive measures [to] ensure the current needs of Donbass and the formation of a fund for the latter, [within] the limits of the obligations assumed by Ukrnarkomprod, 2) [on] providing exhaustive data [on] the food situation in Donbass, 3) what specific measures have been taken by Ukrnarkomprod, what are the actual food supplies in Donbass, what are the real needs of Donbass, what are the real needs of the coal mining industry, what are the real needs of Donbass and what are the real needs of the coal mining industry?

PredSTO Lenin.

Member of the Collegium of the People's Commissariat of Trade Khalatov.

17/1 22 г.

Fund 2, op. 1, d. 22651 - original.

1* Department of procurement and distribution of the People's Commissariat of the Ukrainian SSR.