V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v34;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

ON THE ORGANISATION OF THROUGH TRAINS
FOR THE TRANSPORT OF GRAIN AND COAL
(DECREE OF THE COUNCIL OF DEFENCE, ADOPTED ON THE REPORT
OF J. V. STALIN, FEBRUARY 17, 1919)

1) To recognise as desirable the introduction of martial law on the railways of the Ukraine and, for the preparation of the implementation of martial law, to instruct the War Commissariat to render every assistance to Comrade Podvoisky in establishing discipline and order in the military affairs of the Ukraine and to find a suitable candidate for the post of Extraordinary Commissar of Railways in the Ukraine by the time these railways are declared under martial law.

2) To confirm and more energetically express the directives through the Central Committee to the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic to the effect that the Donets Basin, or at least its coal-bearing part, must be firmly held at all costs.

3) To intensify the movement of the food-supply army.

4) To propose to the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic that it take emergency measures for the actual elimination of the unauthorised seizure of locomotives and wagons in the Donets Basin.
The People’s Commissariat for Railways to report in a week’s time.

5) To request the Central Committee to work out a directive on the abolition of the Commissariat for Railways of the Ukraine.

6) To request Comrade Stalin, through the Bureau of the Central Committee, to carry out the abolition of Krivdonbass.

7) To instruct the
People’s Commissariat for Railways to put into effect as quickly as possible the already begun organisation of through trains for grain and to prepare the organisation of through trains for coal and cotton.

Chairman of the Council of Defence
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)