TELEGRAM TO S. G. SHAUMYAN
June 18, 1918
Baku, to Shaumyan
Via Astrakhan and Kushka, with subsequent transmission by radio
telegram
The decree on the nationalization of the oil industry has not yet been issued. We intend to issue a decree on the nationalization of the oil industry by the end of the navigation season. For now, we will establish a state monopoly over the trade in petroleum products*. Please take all necessary measures to expedite the shipment of petroleum products down the Volga.
Report daily to Glavnefti on the state of the oil industry.
Chairman of the Sovnarkom
Lenin
Printed from the original document signed
by V. I. Lenin.
*
The decree on the nationalization of the oil industry was adopted
by the Sovnarkom on June 20, 1918 (see “Izvestia VTsIK,” June 22, 1918).

1917–1918
YEARS