V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v51; ru:LS/v24
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

TELEGRAM TO G. Y. ZINOVIEV

By direct line out of turn.

Petrograd
Smolny
Zinoviev

10. XI. 1919

I request you immediately to gather information about reliable Bashkir Communists, or honest sympathisers in Bashkiria, and send me their names and addresses urgently.¹ [947]

Lenin.

¹ These data were apparently needed by Lenin in connection with the forthcoming conference at the Council of People's Commissars (SNK) on the organisation of the Bashkir Republic. Zinoviev was to collect this information from units of the Bashkir Division stationed in Petrograd. — Ed.