RESOLUTION ON A TELEGRAM ABOUT MILITARY OPERATIONS
IN THE TOWN OF BALASHOV

July 1919
Comrade Podbelsky!
Add your opinion of Balandin.
Lenin
M jocea. Kremlin Council Oboroni
Copy to the Central Committee of the RCP(b)
From Saratov. Urgent out of turn. Balashov was taken back by us on the sixth at 12 o'clock noon. The
enemy fled in panic, not managing to evacuate anything, army depots. Balashov was taken again by us
from the Yelani side. From Pad station they are reporting artillery fire from the direction of Romanovna station.
At the same time we report: the head of the sanitary department of Saratov institutions and
member of the Revolutionary Military Council, Balandin, sitting in Serdobsk,
continues to spread panic, ordered the evacuation from Serdobsk to Penza. Stop
both of them, as there are no grounds for evacuation yet.
Chairman of the Revolutionary Committee
Zenkovich
Authorized Representative of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee
Yaroslavsky