Date: 1917
Source: ru:PSS/v51

Source: PSS, Volume 51

TO THE SYZRAN DISTRICT EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Memorandum via Direct Line

Simbirsk, Provincial Executive Committee. Copy to Volgoprod

Syzran, District Executive Committee. Copy to Volgoprod

In light of the upcoming transshipment of grain cargoes from waterborne transport to rail at Chasovnya and Batraki, you are tasked with organizing an adequate workforce of stevedores for transshipment operations at both locations—ensuring the swift unloading of barges, facilitating their prompt re‑deployment downstream along the Volga to collect new cargo, and minimizing any delays.

* Abbreviations: Npolkom – Manager and Political Commissar of the Railway; ZR – Chief of the Central Administration of Military Communications. Ed.

TELEGRAM TO THE COMMISSIONERS OF ALL RAILWAYS

of wagons awaiting loading. Responsibility for securing the necessary labor force rests with
At Chasovnya, assign a designated member of the SimbGubispolkom; at Batraki, assign a designated mem-
ber of the District Executive Committee. Please report to me no later than October 20th on the measures taken and the leaders appointed.

15/X. 19. Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars, Lenin

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First published in 1940

in the journal

“Proletarian Revolution,” No. 1

Printed from a typewritten

text signed by

V. I. Lenin