V. I. Lenin

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Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

NOTES ON A. I. SVIDERSKY’S REFERENCE
[October 18, 1919]

In connection with the telegram from Isakov in Petrograd which you handed me yesterday, I report the following:

According to the information of the Food Commissariat, yesterday, October 17, in the morning, 31 carloads of grain arrived in Petrograd; from the Moscow junction, during the night of today, October 18, 18 carloads of grain were to be dispatched; in addition, from Nizhni-Novgorod, on October 16, 11 carloads of grain were sent off, and yesterday, October 17, 44 carloads of grain were dispatched from the same place; thus, during the last few days, 104 carloads of grain have been sent to Petrograd; beginning with October 16, within 3-4 days all the dispatched grain should already be in Petrograd. Then, on October 16, from Nizhni-Novgorod to Petrograd, 10 carloads of wheat were sent for the Northern Food Route; of the trains that had been held up on the Ryazan-Urals Railway—one food train consisting of 30 carloads, and today 30+33+22=85 are being dispatched from Moscow to Petrograd, 33 carloads, and to Oranienbaum, 22 carloads of various foodstuffs.

As regards vegetable oil, fish and meat, the dispatch of these products is as follows: vegetable oil is being sent today from the Moscow district in the amount of 1,500 poods for the Petrograd troops; 2,000 poods of butter to the bases (the public canteens in Petrograd are supplied with butter from their own factory); fish is being sent today from the Moscow stores, 20,000 [poods] of fish in the amount of 7,000 poods for the military units and 3,000 poods to the bases, and in the amount of 10,000 poods from Nizhni-Novgorod for the population; today an order is also given for the dispatch from Moscow of one carload of canned meat to Bologoye, and an instruction is issued for the urgent loading in Petrograd from Vologda of 5,000 poods of meat on the hoof; finally, the Food Commissariat confirms the proposal to the Vyatka Gubernia Food Committee for the urgent loading of meat at Bologoye and Petrograd, 8,000 poods each; it is, of course, impossible to count on the arrival of meat from Vyatka Gubernia in the next few days. Member of the Board, A. Svidersky.

Badayev has 1,000 poods of vegetable oil; fish [today] October 18 + 300 poods of butter; tomorrow, October 19 or October 20, 2 carloads of canned meat.
Korostelev station is free.