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CERTIFICATE FOR B. N. KNIPOVICH
December 1, 1919
The bearer, Comrade Boris Nikolaevich Knipovich, is personally known to me.
I request all railway, military, and other Soviet institutions to provide B. N. Knipovich with all possible assistance for speedy travel from Moscow to Petrograd.
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin).
1 B. N. Knipovich (1890-1924) - geographer and agrarian economist, taught at several specialized higher educational institutions in Moscow. In 1919 he was in economic work in the People's Commissariat of Land. For more details about B. N. Knipovich, see Works, vol. XV, p. 695.

2470*
TELEGRAM TO N. A. RESKE.
Ufa
Authorized Representative Reske
Copy to Fotieva
Copy to Provincial Food Commissar Kotomkin
December 11, 1919
Fotieva is forbidden to leave before January first. Report [On] execution *. [972]
Lenin.

1 Secretary of the Council of People's Commissars L. L. Fotieva was being treated in Ufa during this period.

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NOTE TO A. Ya. BELENKY.
Comrade Belenky
Lubyanka, Room 27.
December 11, 1919
Comrade Belenky! I highly recommend the bearer, Comrade Rovno, a Finnish communist, an old party worker, and I ask you to help him, as we discussed on the phone.
Greetings! Yours, Lenin.