Date: 1920-02-20
Source: ru:PSS/v51

To Comrade Malkov, Kremlin Commandant

The Central Housing and Land Department in agreement with the Administration of the Houses of the VTsIK and the Kremlin has decided that all sleepers present in the Kremlin and used as fuel shall be utilized for the construction of access roads for the building of workers' settlements and a water pumping station. Instead of the sleepers, the Construction Sub-Department under the Central Housing and Land Department is to be entrusted with the preparation of materials by demolishing dilapidated structures. The security and transportation of the material are proposed to be organized by you. Take all measures to expedite the exchange of sleepers for the specified fuel material, informing me of the progress of the work.

TELEGRAM TO I. V. STALIN. FEBRUARY 20, 1920. 139

Provide brief written weekly reports on how much firewood you have received and how many sleepers you have given out*.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

February 19, 1920

First published in 1933 in the Lenin Collection XXIV

Printed from the typescript, supplemented and signed by V. I. Lenin