1869 poods 29 pounds of barley and 35 poods of flour, as well as a detailed written report on how you, in the course of a subbotnik, procured salt, about your subbotniki in general, and about your cultural-educational work.

An order has been issued for the cargo that got stuck in transit through no fault of the comrades you sent to be delivered to the address of the People's Commissariat of Food Supply, and all the provisions you sent will be handed over for the workers of the city of Moscow.

I recommend that you pay greater attention to cultural-educational and school work. All the difficulties that arise for you, I hope, you will succeed in eliminating through united joint efforts.

I was particularly interested in the communist agriculture that you have established. At present, one of the principal tasks facing the Republic is the development and advancement of agriculture. I was pleased to learn that this year you will be able to cultivate 2200 desyatinas for plowing and 25 desyatinas for a vegetable garden. You must take care to organize your agriculture properly, as agronomic science teaches, and for this purpose I advise you to involve a knowledgeable agronomist in your work.*

In particular, I ask you to conduct work in the commune in such a way as to help the neighboring peasants and maintain the best relations with them. Without this and without practical business and economic success, I have little faith in communes and am even somewhat afraid of them.

I send you all my comradely greetings.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

I greatly regret that I could not receive you personally and had to ask comrade N. P. Gorbunov to receive you.

First published
January 21, 1927 in the newspaper "Molot" (Rostov-on-Don) No. 1641

Printed from the typescript supplemented and signed by V. I. Lenin