V. I.

Lenin

100

To:   A. I. RYKOV

26. III.1921

Comrade Rykov:

This is to remind you of the promise you gave me over the phone yesterday: to ask
Glavneft [1] for a short report for me on oil tank cars (the total number of sound tank
cars for oil over the entire railway network, minus those
engaged of necessity on other railways, for instance, from
the Volga to Moscow, except the South-Eastern. The difference is the number of tank cars that can and must carry
oil from Grozny (and Baku) to Moscow. How many are actually carrying it? ).

It would be good (but not compulsory) to append a draft
decision by the C.L.D. concerning the full and correct use
of oil tank cars. [2]

When can I have it?

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
Central Oil Administration.— Ed.

[2]
A reference to the C.L.D. decision of December 15, 1920,
approving the oil transportation plan, submitted on December 14 by
the Supreme Council for Transportation. The decision set out a
number of practical measures connected with the transportation
of oil, ranging from the repair of tank cars and their efficient
use, to the establishment of running rates. Special measures were
outlined for supplying food and clothes to the workers in the
oil-fields and the railways.