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TELEGRAM TO S. G. SHAHUMYAN

Shahumyan
Baku

Via Astrakhan and Kushka, to be transmitted by radio-telegraph

So far there has been no decree on nationalisation of the oil
industry. [1] We intend decreeing nationalisation of the oil industry towards the close of the navigational
season. For the time being we are organising a state monopoly
of trade in oil products. Take all measures for the speediest
shipment of oil products to the Volga. Report daily to the
Chief Oil Committee on the position of the oil industry.

Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

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Notes:
[1]
The Decree on the Nationalisation of the Oil Industry was
adopted by the Council of People’s Commissars on June 20, 1918.