Frunze.Cipher

Discuss carefully how to seize oil in Guriev, it is obligatory, act by bribery and threat of extermination of Cossacks if they burn oil in Guriev. Answer quickly and accurately.

Lenin.

Published in part - "Pravda", No. 170, July 24, 1928.

Fond 2, op. 1, d. 11049 - autograph.

1In the course of the Ural-Guryev operation by the troops of the Turkestan Front under the command of M.V.Frunze from November 2, 1919 to January 10, 1920 Soviet power was restored in the Ural region and the Embensky oil-bearing area. Guryev was cleared from the White Guard troops by the units of the 4th Army on January 5, 1920, and three days later - Dossor, where 12 million poods of oil were seized.