# Date: 1919-05-19

DECREE OF THE COUNCIL OF WORKERS' AND PEASANTS' DEFENSE  
MAY 19, 1919  

The Council of Workers' and Peasants' Defense decrees:  

1) To oblige Tramot and the military department to identify the zones and points threatened by enemy invasion and to establish the quantity of cargo subject to evacuation, distributing it by categories.  

2) The evacuation plan, established in the aforementioned manner, shall be submitted for approval to the Council of Defense.  

3) The commencement of evacuation shall proceed upon the decree of the Revolutionary Military Council of the respective front, with simultaneous urgent notification to the Council of Defense, whereby only military property, the removal of which is necessary for the army to preserve its combat capability, shall be evacuated first.  

LENIN COLLECTION  

4) The evacuation of all other property shall begin in the quantity and order of priority confirmed by the Council of Defense, upon receiving permission from the Council of Defense.  

5) To oblige the military department and Tramot, with the participation of the People's Commissariat of Railways, to review the bases designated for the evacuation of property, taking into account the necessity of locating them as close as possible to the zone subject to evacuation.  

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

Printed from the original, signed by V. I. Lenin.  

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FROM THE DECREES OF THE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE  
MAY 20, 1919