Wonderful autumn, roads are good, mobilize everyone immediately,
chop and haul rails?
Then the secretariat needs to select people. Ten young people for each commissariat; for training and for selecting
"dignitaries".
Systematically and obligatorily.
1 F. E. Dzerzhinsky at that time chairman of the Cheka and People's Commissar of Railways.
2 V. V. Kramer — professor of neuropathology.
O. R. Foerster — German professor of neuropathology.
3 Ya. E. Rudzutak — member of the Presidium and General Secretary of
the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions.
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DRAFT PROPOSALS ON THE TERMS
OF A CONTRACT WITH URKART ON A CONCESSION 1
[1922, October, not earlier than 5]
1) will be
2) without Ekibastuz share? (will not work)
3) prepare all material for the question in 2 months
about the monopoly
4) we approve the moment of signing, but it comes into force
after England recognizes us (and all this within
8 months).
See this collection, pp. 398-399, 424.
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NOTE FROM N. V. KRYLENKO
18/XI 192[2]
N. V.! 1 From the "report" of the Berlin comrades about
the sick and treated, I learn that E. F. 2 has not basically recovered. They (the doctors) demanded several more
months, she refused.
"A very careful diet and constant medical supervision" is required.
Please take note!
Regards! Lenin "Liver | out of order"
J

1 N. V. — Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko — member of the RSDLP since 1904;
in 1922 — Chairman of the Supreme Revolutionary Tribunal of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Deputy People's Commissar of Justice and Senior Assistant
Public Prosecutor of the Republic.
2 E. F. — Elena Fedorovna Rozmirovich (Trojanovskaya) — wife of
N. V. Krylenko. From the spring of 1922, she was a member of the board and headed
the legal department of the People's Commissariat of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection.
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SPEECHES AT A MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS 1
[November 21, 1922]
On the issue of revision
REGULATIONS ON THE MAIN CONCESSIONS COMMITTEE
Debate (short transcript)
Comrade Lezhava:
The changes mainly concern three points. The first is regarding negotiations on concessions by various people's commissariats.
We propose to concentrate all the work in the Main Concessions Committee.
This would be important in order to avoid the inconsistency
that often occurs at present. Until now, it was like this: a concessionaire arrives, wanders from one people's commissariat to another,
negotiates everywhere, and negotiations are held with him, and he does not know where the
final authority for these negotiations is. Recently, it has been possible to ensure that the people's commissariats notify the Main
Concessions Committee about the negotiations they are conducting, even if preliminary.
The second is the following point, which I could not include in
this regulation, but which is necessary in order to relieve both the STO
and the SNK and give the matter greater mobility. The question is as follows:
if we could limit, could establish that concessions, assuming an investment of no more than 500 thousand rubles in gold and not causing
protest either from the relevant people's commissariat or from the government or republic, or oblесоsо, where this concession takes place, as well as on the condition that there has already been a precedent for this kind of concession — so that the issue would be decided only in the Main Concessions Committee.
The third is to remove cases concerning internal joint-stock companies
or partnerships, their registration, etc., from the Main
Concessions Committee and transfer them to Komvnutorg. This is necessary in order
to give the Main Concessions Committee integrity and completeness, and to relieve it.
Comrade Smilga:
I would like to get to the heart of the matter. It seems to me that we should
exchange some considerations.
Comrade Lenin:
No one objects to discussion. The floor is given to Comrade Lezhava. Read.

Comrade Lezhava:
The exclusive right to conduct negotiations with concession applicants... (reads from the draft).
Comrade Lenin:
So, no people's commissariat can conduct negotiations. It can
undertake anything, but it does not have the right to conduct negotiations.
Comrade Smilga:
Here it should be established as a rule that the people's commissariats must
and are obliged to conduct preliminary negotiations, because otherwise the Main
Concessions Committee will be overwhelmed with cases.
When a concessionaire arrives, he first goes to the institutions that are closer
to him, and, in my opinion, this is correct, and preliminary
conversations should be concentrated in these institutions, so that only
after the issue has matured for serious discussion does it pass to the Main Concessions Committee.
Now, the second point is the right of the Main Concessions Committee
to conclude transactions already on behalf of the government — without the approval
of the STO. Since we have had about 15 concessions in six months...
Comrade Lenin:
... more than six months.
Comrade Smilga:
... it seems to me that the approval of concessions should continue, despite the fact that they will be within the limits indicated by Comrade Lezhava, should
pass through the STO.
Well, I agree with the third point.
Comrade Lenin:
Who else would like to speak.
Comrade Leplevsky:
Comrade Lezhava says that it is necessary to exclude from the jurisdiction (further omission in the transcript).
Comrade Bernstein:
Here it is my duty to remind you that this 3rd point is connected with the
recently adopted Civil Code. According to the Civil Code, the statutes
of joint-stock companies — all (including domestic ones) — are submitted through the Main Concessions
Committee. Therefore, the exclusion proposed by Comrade Lezhava will contradict
the recently adopted code.
Comrade Lezhava:
As for the considerations expressed by Comrade Smilga, I said
that initially the people's commissars will have the right to negotiate.
Comrade Smilga softens this in such a way that these negotiations will not
be official in nature. This would be of great importance to us.
Comrade
Lenin:
So, we need to change the words. In principle, it turns out that
you do not disagree with Comrade Smilga. Perhaps we should say this:
preliminary negotiations, conducted by the people's commissariats, are not of an official nature and do not impose any obligations on the government.
(The formulations of this resolution are submitted by Comrades Sokolnikov, Kamenev and ... *, which are attached to the protocol).
Comrade Lezhava:
Now regarding domestic joint-stock companies. We will have many cases where we will disagree with many articles of the code mentioned by Comrade Bernstein. Regarding this point, I pointed out to the editorial commission and stated that we are entering the Council of People's Commissars with a statement about the change. I believe that nothing can bind us to take an action that would change the point in the code that binds us.
Comrade Lenin:
What lawlessness are you preaching.
Comrade Leplevsky:
I was in the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee when the code was discussed. It was said that the Presidium would make summaries of the necessary corrections and submit them to the next session. So it is fixable.
Comrade Lenin:
(Reads the disputed point). It seems to me that it is so clear that you will have to wait and prepare for the next session.
Comrade Leplevsky:
Here it is clear from the project that the Internal Trade Commission undertakes an obligation (reads point three on the second page).
The draft resolution on allowing foreign partnerships to conduct operations on the territory of the RSFSR — this, undoubtedly, cannot fall within the competence of the Internal Trade Commission.
Comrade Lezhava:
Comrade Leplevsky is mistaken.
As for the further existence of joint-stock companies, mixed companies, and other companies, they must draw up the charters of their companies in accordance with the charters operating in the country. These charters, according to which they will carry out operations with us, must be considered by the same body that considers all institutions and enterprises, their reporting, etc., where the management of all commercial enterprises in the country is concentrated. Therefore, even when a mixed company develops a charter for itself — it must be registered in the general order and receive from ... the right to carry out these operations.
Comrade Bernshtein:
And the registration of already approved joint-stock companies is also within the jurisdiction of the Main Concessions Committee.
Comrade Lezhava:
This is a provision that I myself drafted. Then I was faced with the same question, and since the Internal Trade Commission did not yet exist then, I thought for a long time where to attach this registration.
* There is a gap in the transcript here.

Comrade Lenin:
So, our editor-consultant correctly points out that a discrepancy with the law has arisen. Therefore, you need to be given a directive — how to eliminate this discrepancy *.
Printed from the transcript
The discussions at the meeting of the Council of People's Commissars on November 21, 1922, chaired by V. I. Lenin, were devoted to the discussion of the new Regulations on the Main Concessions Committee.
The Main Committee for Concessions and Joint-Stock Companies, established by the Council of People's Commissars on April 4, 1922 (see "Collection of Laws and Orders of the Workers' and Peasants' Government", 1922, No. 28, Art. 320, pp. 456-457), was transformed at this meeting into the Main Committee for Concessions and Joint-Stock Companies — Glavkontsesskom under the Council of Labor and Defense.
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NOTE TO L. B. KAMENEV
[November 21, 1922]
The Mari people need to be given even more. It turns out to be years of mockery 1.
The note was apparently written on November 21, 1922 at a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars devoted to the issue of developing the burned-out forest area in the Mari Region, which was formed as a result of a natural fire in 1921 and the mismanagement of the forest by the Main Forestry Committee.
The reason for writing this note was the repeated discussions in various departments of this issue and delays in the implementation of the decisions of the Council of People's Commissars on the need to allocate funds for clearing the burned-out area and protecting the forests of the region. The Council of People's Commissars decided: "Establish a single owner" for the development of the Mari burnt area in the form of a special board under the NKZ. Regarding the necessary allocations for this, the NKZ was proposed to "enter the Council of People's Commissars in the established order."
In pursuance of the resolutions of the Council of People's Commissars of November 21, December 12, and the Council of Labor and Defense of December 15, 1922, the Council of Labor and Defense decided on December 20, 1922: "To recognize it as desirable to allocate 200,000,000 rubles (in 1922 money) from state funds to the NKZ for taking measures to protect the Mari forest burns, with 50% of this amount to be released in January 1923, and the remaining 50% at the beginning of the 2nd and 3rd quarters of 1923, taking into account the seasonal nature of the work."
* The transcript ends here.