**8. Comrade Smilga (or Trifonov)**

Could you not inform me, for insertion into my report to the Congress of Soviets, with the briefest possible figures on fuel:
regarding the Donbass I have Pyatakov's report. Could you not provide the totals for 1920 and 1921?
the same regarding oil?
the same regarding peat?
the same regarding firewood for 1920 and 1921?

**9. Comrade Bogdanov**

I request that you inform me, for my report to the Congress of Soviets, with the briefest possible (no more than 1/2–1 page per item) information
on metallurgy for 1921 compared with 1920?
on Yugostal?
on the significance and prospects of the Rutgers enterprise and his group?
on aid to the Urals (Hammer's concessions)?
on the textile industry?
on certain results of the work of the Main Land Administration [Glavzemkhoz]?[144]
(the task: the briefest, most telling figures, which could be cited in the report, so as to illustrate both the entire gravity of the situation and the small signs of improvement).

**10. Comrade Gorbunov**

On electrification:
the conclusion of Lévy's article[145] the development in number and capacity of electric power stations
for 1918, 1919, 1920, and 1921.

The significance of Kashirka and Utkina Zavod [Utkina Works] and their opening scheduled for spring 1922.
the same regarding the Volkhov hydroelectric station[146].

**11. Comrades Lunacharsky, Pokrovsky, Litkens**

I request that you inform me, for my report to the Congress of Soviets, with brief data which could visibly characterize the growth of the thirst for knowledge, the striving for learning, progress in this matter (2–3 figures at most on the number of students, the number of libraries, etc.; the most striking).

**12. Radchenko: on h y d r o t o r f [hydro-peat]: what has been ordered in Germany? prospects for 1922?

Written December 17, 1921

First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIII

Printed from the manuscript