TELEGRAM
TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SYZRAN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
AND THE COMMISSAR OF FINANCE
June 23 [1918]
Penza
To the Chairman of the Syzran Executive Committee
To the Commissar of Finance
Copy to Minkin 1
You are hereby ordered to entrust the train with the valuables removed from Syzran to Comrade Minkin for dispatch to its destination together with the valuables being evacuated from Penza. Leave with the train a bank commissar and the employees accompanying the train.
Responsibility for non-fulfillment of this order rests with you.
Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars
Lenin