V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v50; en:MT;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

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To I. E. GUKOVSKY

Complaints are being made that you are still not supplying the text of the new money, thus hampering the preparation of specimens and their testing. Send it


TO I. E. GUKOVSKY. JULY 1918 119


immediately, retaining the old wording on the question of exchange for gold (with the suspension of exchange by special decrees).

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Put the Soviet inscription on it.

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1) Submit the available specimens to the best experts.

2) Have them counterfeited.

3) Commission the Board of the People’s Commissariat for Education to produce designs (for all denominations).

7) Instruct Popovitsky to work out estimates:

(a) how many such credit notes can be produced per month with the usual, i.e., normal, distribution of denominations

(a1) on Orlov presses,

(a2) on ordinary flat-bed presses,

(a3) high denominations (i.e., denominations of high value) on Orlov presses, low denominations on ordinary flat-bed presses?

(b) what is the cost of the new credit notes compared with the old ones?

(c) exactly when can the clichés be made (i.e., how many days after the design is approved) and within what period can production of the new credit notes be started?

(d) will the new method require new materials and auxiliary substances, etc., as compared with the old one?

How much will a blank form cost (for all official papers of the Soviet authorities)?