V. I.

Lenin

507

To:   THE CHIEF OIL COMMITTEE OF THE SUPREME ECONOMIC COUNCIL

I enclose a cutting from Izvestia No. 8(855) for 14/1. 20,
and ask to be informed whether you are aware of the facts
stated in this paragraph, [2] and how far the figures given
in it may be regarded as trustworthy. What practical measures are being taken in this
connection? [1]

V. Ulyanov (Lenin )
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

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Notes:
[1]
This sentence is in Lenin’s handwriting.— Ed.

[2]
The paragraph in Izvestia , entitled “A Wealth of Oil Products”,
stated that the oilfields near Berchogur, in the neighbourhood of
Zhilaya Kosa, had available stocks amounting to 20 million
poods of oil, 300,000 poods of paraffin and 200,000 poods of
petrol. In addition, oil was gushing from four wells.