To the Nizhny Novgorod Provincial Executive Committee for transmission
to the Sormovo military and civil authorities

I request the immediate appointment of a strict and absolutely impartial investigation, conducted through reliable Communists personally known [to you], of:

- the attached statement;
- the preparation of an accurate factual description of how many houses, apartments and rooms are occupied (by what number of persons) by employees and higher technical personnel;

* The text "To Zenkovitch from the Provincial Executive Committee... copy to Yaroslavsky" is written in an unknown hand. Ed.

- which factory house is being requested for the children's home and which one can be provided;
- precise verification of who was supposed to oversee this matter, the names of responsible persons, their addresses, as well as those who will conduct the investigation.

Report to me immediately on the execution of this order by post or by special messenger.

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

First published in 1933 in Leninskiy sbornik XXIV

Printed from the manuscript