ON THE ALLOCATION OF FUNDS TO THE BAKU SOVIET**

December 16 (29), 1917

In urgent order, allocate five hundred thousand (500,000) rubles from the budget of the Commissariat of Internal Affairs.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars  
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

*The order was written by I. V. Stalin and signed by V. I. Lenin and I. V. Stalin on the appeal of the Muslim congress published below.*

*On December 9 (22), 1917, an instruction signed by the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin) was sent to the People's Commissar for Education A. V. Lunacharsky on the immediate hand-over of the Quran from the State Public Library, where it had been kept until that time (Archive of IMEL, doc. no. 42903; see also "Izvestiya of the CEC" no. 248, December 10, 1917).*

**The Council of People's Commissars at the session of December 16 (29), 1917, having heard a report by I. V. Stalin on the Caucasus, resolved: "Allocate 500,000 rubles according to the budget of the Internal Affairs Commissariat to the Baku Soviet for the struggle against Kaledin" (protocol no. 27, item 11).*