Petrograd

Smolny

To Zinoviev

Komprod [Food Commission] reports: since October 16th, 114 carloads of grain have been sent to Petrograd from Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod, and today 85 carloads of various provisions are being sent. Today 2,000 poods of vegetable oil and 300 poods of animal oil are being dispatched; tomorrow 5 carloads of meat preserves and one [carload] to Bologoe. Fish today 7,000 [poods] from Moscow, and an order is being issued for another 3,000 [poods] and for 10,000 [poods] from Nizhny Novgorod. An urgent order is being issued to dispatch 5,000 poods of meat in live cattle from Vologda. Badayev has 1,000 poods of vegetable oil.

Lenin

First printed in 1933 in Lenin Collection XXIV

Printed from the manuscript