FOREST DEPARTMENT OF THE SOVIET OF DEPUTIES, COPY TO FORESTRY

May 28, 1918

The Council of People's Commissars on principle resolved to grant loans to the artels for the floating of logs and the gathering of firewood on the condition of guaranteeing the interests of the state. The conditions, procedure of allocation, and amounts of the loan will be worked out by a special commission within two days. Continue the floating. Much firewood will be needed.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars  
Lenin

*Printed from the original signed by V. I. Lenin.*