20 April 1919

Moscow. Top priority.
To the Central Executive Committee, copies to the Council of People's Commissars, the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, the Party Central Committee, ROSTA.

For publication.

The Chairman of the Lbishchensk Revolutionary Committee, Comrade Dmitry Yakovlev, while in the forward line, was wounded defending Lbishchensk. Not wishing to surrender to the enemy, he shot himself. Yakovlev — a prominent worker since 1905, fought heroically all the way until the taking of Uralsk. — Chairman of the Revolutionary Committee Iv. Ulyanov