MEMORANDUM TO N. P. BRYUKHANOV
[24 January 1919]

To Bryukhanov: Your opinion? What are you doing?
What orders? ]

Written on a telegram from N. V. Terziev, inspector of the State Control, from Orel, directed to the People's Commissariat of State Control (copies to the Council of Defense—V. I. Lenin and to the People's Commissariat of Food), requesting that an order be given to organize a food workers' inspection in Orel Province or to dispatch a detachment of inspectors from the center to audit the food supply organs of Orel, Kursk, and Voronezh provinces. The text contains V. I. Lenin's underlining with two lines of the following words: "Bryukhanov," "instructions by provinces," "detachment of inspection Orel," and a note by the secretary on execution: "Telegram No. 480 sent to comrade Schmidt 24/1."

Judging by the following telegram, sent in February 1919 by Terziev to State Control and to the Council of Defense—V. I. Lenin—Terziev was authorized to conduct audits in the provinces named by him.

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