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CERTIFICATE TO B. N. KNIPOVICH
1. XII. 1919
The bearer, Comrade Boris Nikolaevich Knipovich, is personally known to me.
I ask all railway, military, and other Soviet institutions to provide B. N. Knipovich with all possible assistance for rapid travel from Moscow to Petrograd.
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin).
1 B. N. Knipovich (1890–1924) – geographer and agricultural economist, taught at several specialized higher educational institutions in Moscow. In 1919 he was working in economic affairs at the People's Commissariat of Agriculture. For more information on B. N. Knipovich, see Works, Vol. XV, p. 695.
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TELEGRAM TO N. A. RESKE.
Ufa
Authorized representative Reske
Copy to Fotieva
Copy to the provincial food commissar Kotomkin

11. XII. 1919
Fotieva is prohibited from departing before the first of January. Report [On] execution *. [972]

Lenin.
1 The secretary of the Council of People's Commissars, L. L. Fotieva, was receiving treatment in Ufa during this period.
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NOTE TO A. YA. BELENKY.
Comrade Belenky
Lubyanka, room 27.

11. XII. 1919
Comrade Belenky! I highly recommend the bearer, Comrade Rovno, a Finnish communist, an old party worker, and I ask you to help him, as we discussed on the phone.
Greetings! Yours, Lenin.