V. I.

Lenin

536

To:   K. A. ALFEROV

Comrade Alferov, Lomonosov, before his departure, had told me that
everything had been done for the oil pipeline.

Clearly we have here sabotage or slovenliness, for your
information is utterly confusing .

Send me without fail not later than 11 a.m. next Tuesday
1) a short, extremely brief, report on (a) what has been
ordered and (b) what has been done.

2) The name, patronymic and surname of each
responsible person.

Lenin

27.II

( P.S. In reply to your note of
27.II.) [1]

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Notes:
[1]
In the Central Party Archives of the Institute of Marxism–
Leninism of the C.C., C.P.S.U. there is a note of Lenin’s to Alferov:
“You promised information about the oil pipeline but did not
give it!”, and a reply from Alferov on the construction of the
Emba oil pipeline marked “27.II. Alferov”.

The construction of the Emba pipeline was discussed at a
meeting of the Council of Defence on March 5, 1920. The Council
decided to instruct the Board of the Supreme Economic
Council to examine the plan for the construction of the Emba
pipeline and submit it to the Council of People’s Commissars in final
form, and to ascertain whether an inquiry had been made abroad
for ordering the pipes required.