ORDER TO THE STATE TREASURY
ON THE ALLOCATION OF FUNDS TO THE BAKU COUNCIL * *
December 16 (29), 1917
In an urgent manner, release, within the budgetary framework of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs, half a million (500,000) rubles.
Chairman of the Sovnarkom
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V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
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The directive was penned by I. V. Stalin and signed
by V. I. Lenin and I. V. Stalin on the following appeal issued by the Congress of Muslims.
On December 9 (22), 1917, under the signature of Chairman of the Sovnarkom V. Ulyanov (Lenin), an instruction was transmitted to People’s Commissar for Education A. V. Lunacharsky, ordering the immediate release of the Qur’an from the State Public Library, where it had been kept until that time
(Archive of IMEL, Doc. L* 42903; see also “Izvestia of the CEC,” No. 248, December 10, 1917).
* * At its session on December 16 (29), 1917, the Council of People’s Commissars, having heard I. V. Stalin’s report on the Caucasus, resolved: “To allocate 500,000 rubles, within the budgetary framework of Vnudel, to the Baku Soviet for the struggle against Kaledin” (Minutes A* 27, Item 11).