V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v40
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

TELEGRAM TO V. S. YERMAKOV

[August 6, 1919]

Urgent, for military purposes

To Deputy Commissar of Railways Yermakov
Perm Railway Administration
Copy to him, Yekaterinburg Station
Copy to Krestinsky,\(^1\) Yuryev, Perm, Yekaterinburg

The Council of Workers’ and Peasants’ Defence authorises Comrade Yermakov, Deputy Commissar of the Department of Railways of the Eastern Front, to ship to the Centre, on the instructions of the People’s Commissariat for Food and the People’s Commissariat for Railways, the stocks of salt, flour and grain available in Yekaterinburg and Perm and adjacent localities, leaving on the spot, on the instructions of the People’s Commissariat for Food, stocks sufficient for meeting local requirements. All authorities and institutions, military not excepted, are hereby ordered to give Comrade Yermakov every assistance in carrying out the assignment entrusted to him by the Council of Defence and to comply unconditionally with all his lawful demands relating to this assignment.

Chairman of the Council of Defence, Lenin

Printed from a typewritten text signed by V. I. Lenin

\(^1\) N. N. Krestinsky—Ed.