and discrediting of Soviet power was sentenced by the Moscow Revolutionary Tribunal
to execution by firing squad.

The matter concerns a death sentence handed down by the Cheka and confirmed
by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee on July 7, 1918, against 13 Left SRs
who took active part in the counter-revolutionary Left SR insurrection.
6929

TO THE CHIEF OF THE MAIN MILITARY PETROL
DEPOT

15. VIII. 1918

I request that petrol be released for the automobile of Comrade Zemit,¹ member of the Collegium
of the People's Commissariat of Finance. I earnestly request that you arrange for this to be done
immediately.

Chairman of the SNK V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

¹ F. A. Zemit was assigned to work in the People's Commissariat of Finance in April 1918 on the recommendation of V. I. Lenin (see Lenin Collection XXXVII, pp. 77-78).

25664

TO THE SUPREME MILITARY COUNCIL¹

21. VIII. 1918

I request that you receive the bearer, Comrade Tarosov, and take all measures to satisfy his
request, and inform me of the execution by telephone.

Chairman of the SNK V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

¹ On August 21, 1918, an order from V. I. Lenin was sent to the Chief of Supply of the Main Administration of the Military-Air Fleet concerning the adoption of all measures for the formation of an aviation division of three squadrons, with no fewer than five aircraft in each, for the North Caucasus District. Military pilot Taros Tarosov was appointed as the responsible person for the formation.