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FOOD AND SUPPLY

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I I O M E T K K N A TELEGRAM P O SHTKOMISSARA TRAIN
"OCTOBER REVOLUTION".
[July 25, 1919]
...The grain harvest [in] Samara Governorate is unprecedented in many decades. The lack of necessary workers threatens the destruction of the already ready-to-harvest richest crop of Samara Governorate, which alone can feed hungry Soviet Russia. It is necessary to immediately send all free workers to the Volga region, it is necessary to move resin, tar, and available tools to the peasants.
Political Commissar of the October Revolution train Voevodin.
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1) Svidersky
2) Glebov1
3) Sereda
It is necessary to strain all forces and tomorrow afternoon 26/7, via telephone
"tell me what has been done.
1 N. I. Glebov - member of the Collegium of the People's Commissariat of Labor.

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TELEGRAM TO N. V. KRYLENKO.
Saratov
Provincial Executive Committee
Authorized Representative of Vtsedik
Krylenko
25. Jul. 1919
Orders cannot be violated, because they give bread to the army, and send everything over the orders [to] the address of Komprod [in] Moscow. Report exactly what quantities of bread are available and where exactly.
Chairman of the Council of Defense Lenin.

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NOTES ON
TELEGRAM OF N. P. BRYUKHANOV 1.
[July 30, 1919]
To Tsyurupa: What have you done?
Do I need to sign?

1 Deputy People's Commissar of Food Bryukhanov reported to Lenin from Kyiv: “In Bryansk, all food cargoes are being redirected to Smolensk, Zanfront, by order of the military authorities, including sugar, of which 180 wagons have already been reshipped, which constitutes a six-month supply.... If the specified order is not immediately canceled by your categorical order, all other armies and the entire population will be left without sugar.” Upon receiving Tsyurupa's response, Lenin noted the document: "To the archive."

NOTE ON A TELEGRAM FROM YARENSKY UYEZD1.
July 30, 1919]
To Vladimirsky: Energetic measures must be taken.

The telegram reported on the difficult food situation in parts of the uyezd and the poor assistance to the farms of Red Army soldiers.
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ON SENDING DETACHMENTS TO GRAIN-PRODUCING GOVERNORATES.
[LATER SEPTEMBER 1919] a.
ORDER TO THE SECRETARY
Remind me when Tsyurupa will be here.
b.
NOTE TO A. D. TSYURUPA.
Comrade Tsyurupa! This is a request from the Trade Union of Textiles 1.
Your conclusion?
c.
ORDER TO THE SECRETARY.
Pass it on to Rykunov in the "Center of Textiles"
1 M. V. Rykunov, a member of the Collegium of the Centrotextil, later a member of the Collegium of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Trade, in a note addressed to Lenin, asked to send well-organized detachments from the largest unions, such as the Textile Workers' Union, to grain-producing governorates to exchange manufactured goods for bread. In a reply to Lenin, written under the text of Rykunov's note, Tsyurupa did not object to satisfying Rykunov's request, with the condition, however, that the organization of the detachments "go through the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions."
The order to the secretary and
Tsyurupa's note are written by Lenin above the text of Rykunov's note.
2 Lenin instructs the secretary to pass on Tsyurupa's response to Rykunov's request to Rykunov.

FOOD AND SUPPLIES

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NOTE ON THE REPORT OF V. A. EMELYANOV.
[Later October 7, 1919]
Author's proposal: Give Sevrairyba the right to fight the
speculation in fish (the right to seize fish from speculators)!.
1 The note was made by Lenin on the report of the chairman of the Northern Regional Administration of Glavryba, V. A. Emelyanov, who asked for urgent measures to combat fish speculation in local markets. The report was sent to Lenin from Petrograd.
On the document, on the left, Lenin's note: "to the archive."
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INQUIRY TO S. D. MARKOV
[October 16, 1919]
Markov: What have you done?

I. Zavyalov, a member of the Collegium under the Special Commissioner of the Council of Defense,
reported to Lenin in a telegram a number of information about the movement of food
cargoes from the front-line zone to the 3rd, 5th and 7th armies. The possibility of
daily dispatching to the center "at least three scheduled trains with bread"
Zavyalov conditioned it with the rational use of the sufficient, but according to his information, the amount of free rolling stock on the Siberian Railway line.
Lenin wrote a request to the Deputy People's Commissar of Railways Markov on Zavyalov's telegram. *

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TELEGRAM TO THE NIZHNY NOVGOROD PROVINCIAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE A\
[But before October 17, 1919]
[Po] decision of the Council of People's Commissars
I order to take the most urgent measures to increase the loading of bread in view
of the terrible famine [in] Moscow.
Telegraph immediately what exactly you have done and what the results are.
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin.
"The telegram was written by L. A. Fotieva; additions and signature
by Lenin. Ed.

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NOTES ON THE CERTIFICATE OF A. P. SVIDERSKY
[October 18, 1919]
Regarding the telegram from Isaakov from Petrograd that you forwarded yesterday, I inform you of the following:
A.
According to the information of Komprod*, yesterday 17/X in the morning 31 wagons with grain arrived in Petrograd; from the Moscow hub on the night of today 18/X, 18 wagons of grain were supposed to depart; in addition, from Nizhny 16 October eleven wagons with grain were sent and yesterday 17/X, 44 wagons with grain were sent from the same place; thus, in the last days 104 wagons with grain were sent to Petrograd; starting from October 16, within 3-4 days, all the sent bread should already be in Petrograd. Then, on October 16, 10 wagons with wheat were sent from Nizhny to Piter for Sevprodput; from the stuck on the Ryazan-Ural railway routes - one train with provisions consisting of 30 wagons, and today
30-j-33-|-22=# 5, 33 wagons are being sent from Moscow to Petrograd and 22 wagons to Oranienbaum
with various provisions.
As for vegetable oil, fish and meat, the situation with the dispatch of
these products is as follows: vegetable oil is being sent today from the Moscow uyezd in the amount of 1500 poods for the Piter troops
oil 2000 p

POOD* in bases (public canteens in Petrograd are provided with
oil from their factory); fish is being sent today from Moscow warehouses
20,000 [i.] of fish in the amount of 7000 p. for military units and 3000 p. to bases and in koliicho-
1 wagon of meat [ykh] in the amount of 10,000 and. from Nizhny for the population; today an order is given for
kon^ervov J ^vi-0TPavki from Moscow one wagon with meat
canned food in
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5000 p. of meat with live cattle; finally, the Komnrod confirms
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the proposal to the Vyatka provincial food committee on urgent loading of meat in Bologoye
and Petrograd at 8000 p .; It is impossible to count on the receipt of meat from the Vyatka province.
in the coming days, of course, is impossible. Member of the Collegium A. Svidersky.
Badaev has 1000 poods of vegetable] oil fish [today]
18 / X -j-300 p. animal] oil tomorrow 19 / X or 20 / X 2 wagons of canned meat
Korostelevskaya station is free

1 Having received a request from Petrograd for increased food
aid, Lenin sent a request to the People's Commissariat of Food for the amount of food sent
to Petrograd. Based on Svidersky's message, Lenin on the margins, on the left, sketched a numerical summary of data on the number of
food cargoes sent to Petrograd.
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These data were used by Lenin in his telegram to Zinoviev from October 18, 1919 (see p. 137). Ed.