TELEGRAM TO S. G. SHAUMYAN
June 18, 1918
Baku, to Shaumyan
Via Astrakhan and Kushka with further transmission by radiotelegraph

There has been no decree yet on the nationalization of the oil industry. We intend to decree the nationalization of the oil industry by the end of the navigation season. For now, we are organising a state monopoly on trade in petroleum products*. Take all measures to expedite the export of petroleum products to the Volga. Report daily to Glavkoneft on the situation in the oil industry.

Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars
Lenin

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

* The Decree on the nationalization of the oil industry was adopted by the Council of People’s Commissars on June 20, 1918 (see “Izvestia VTsIK”, June 22, 1918).