V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v50; ru:LS/v34; en:CW/CW44;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

AND THE REVVOYENSOVIET OF THE REPUBLIC

Comrade Gusev
Comrade Sklyansky, Orgburo of the C.C.

I earnestly request that Comrade Iv. Iv. Ulyanov’s proposals be examined as soon as possible, so that the question can be decided without delay.

Ivan Ivanovich Ulyanov, former Chairman of the Ural Revolutionary Committee, member of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee (since October 1917), insists on the necessity of forming a division from the Cossack proletarian masses in the area of Saratov and Pokrovsk for operations in the enemy’s rear, in the steppes beyond the Urals.

He, Ulyanov, Khaustov (Chairman of the Bureau of the Yaik Revolutionary Committee, in Pokrovsk), two brothers of Iv. Iv. Ulyanov, and some others whom he undertakes to select, would like to take upon themselves the formation of a special detachment.

For this they need: 1) special powers;

2) arms and supplies;

3) money.
June 16, 1919.

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