23/IV. 1918.

Irkutsk, Tsentrosibir
I am replying to your requests for money, and especially to Prokopiev. I have made inquiries today. Petrograd gives Siberia 150 million weekly, last week –
180, of which Chelyabinsk – 15, Tomsk – 15, Omsk – 40, Irkutsk – 55, Barnaul – 15.

In addition to this norm, they received: Irkutsk – 200, Tomsk – 220 million.

Think over how much is needed over and above this, check, reply precisely as to the purpose[72].

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
Lenin

First published in 1933
in Lenin Miscellany XXI
Printed from the manuscript.