Smolensk, Tver, Moscow, Ryazan
May 21, 1919

By decree of April 24, the resettlement of peasants and workers to the Don region is being organized. Proceed immediately to the formation, for the purposes of firm colonization of the region, of parties of stable contingents of resettlers (men, excluding those between 18 and 35 years of age, except those discharged from military service due to illness).* Preferentially from rural poor, members of village communes and associations sympathetic to conducting economies on collective principles. For the present time, select a group of approximately two thousand persons. Rules for settlement on the Don and transportation of resettlers there will be communicated additionally. Report on the formation of the party. Given the exceptional importance of this matter, responsibility for the execution of this order is placed upon the Provincial Land Department.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
Lenin
Commissariat of Agriculture
Semyon

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TELEGRAM TO THE CIVIL ADMINISTRATION
OF THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL OF THE SOUTHERN FRONT
Kozlov
May 21, 1919

Take the most urgent measures for the settlement on the Don of up to twenty thousand resettlers being sent in the coming days. Responsibility for the execution of this assignment is placed upon the civil administration of the Southern Front and the resettlement organization attached to it. I request that you urgently telegraph regarding all measures undertaken.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
Lenin
Commissariat of Agriculture
Semyon

Printed from the original signed by V. I. Lenin and S. P. Semyon.

* Words in brackets written in the hand of V. I. Lenin. The document is printed from the original signed by V. I. Lenin and S. P. Semyon.