On military circumstances. Liter B

Petersburg. Defense Committee to Zinoviev.

Predrevoyevoensoviet to Trotsky.

Commission on unloading Naglovsky.

To Krasin, a member of the Defense Council

In addition [to] the decision of the Defense Council of October 17, it is reported that together with Comrade Krasin Groman left for Petrograd to directly supervise the removal of property intended for such removal by the Sovoborona Evaccom. For Comrade Groman the assignments for the removal of parts of the neutralized enterprises given by Comrade Krasin's commission are obligatory.

October 17, 1919.

Chairman of the Defense Council Lenin.

Predevakkom of the Defense Council V. Avanesov.

Fund 2, op. 1, d. 11430 - original.

1The telegram refers to the evacuation of property and people from Petrograd in the event of a military threat to the city. On September 5, the Defense Council, having heard a report on the progress of the evacuation of Petrograd, instructed "People's Commissariat of Railways to leave in the area of Petrograd junction the necessary amount of empty trucks for the removal of the most valuable property and people at the time of acute danger" (Decrees of Soviet power. Vol. VI. M, 1973, p. 411). On October 17, 1919 the military situation near Petrograd, due to the offensive of Yudenich's troops, became critical (see Lenin's proclamation to the workers and Red Army men of Petrograd - ibid., p. 206-209). 206-209). On October 21, 1919. The 7th Army, supported by the Baltic Fleet, stopped Yudenich and launched a counteroffensive. In early December 1919 the remnants of the defeated troops were pushed into the territory of Estonia, where they were disarmed.