TELEGRAM TO G. I. LOMOV
Arkhangelsk
To Member of the Presidium of the All‑Russian Central Executive Committee,
Lomov
[March 9, 1920]
Please endeavor to locate—or, if necessary, arrange for the location of—printed materials and official reports pertaining to the Uhta River basin, housed in the Museum of the Society for the Study of the Northern Territory and in the Administration of State Property. [157]
Lešš,

ShbT
ON THE INVOLVEMENT OF FOREST RANGERS IN WOOD‑CUTTING OPERATIONS.
DRAFT RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE 1.
[March 21, 1920]
The Council of Defense resolved:
1. To issue a severe reprimand to the Chief Forest Administration and to all provincial forest administrations for their negligent and wholly unacceptable attitude toward the implementation of the Council of Defense’s resolution of November 21, 1919, which mandated the involvement of forest rangers in wood‑cutting operations.2. To warn that the entire composition of the Chief Forest Administration and the provincial forest administrations will be brought to trial unless they demonstrate complete zeal in fulfilling the law.
2. The Council of Defense declares that the intent of the Council of Defense’s resolution of November 21, 1919, requires that all forest rangers—without exception, save for the single exemption noted below—fulfill their personal labor quota of at least five cubic meters per month (for individuals over fifty years of age, the quota is four cubic meters), regardless of their regular duties.
The Council of Defense instructs all provincial chiefs of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs, under the strictest oversight of the All‑Union Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter‑Revolution and Sabotage, to enforce—upon those forest administration officials who have failed to comply with the law on personal labor in wood‑cutting operations as stipulated above—the imposition of penalties, including, but not limited to, personal arrest for several weeks.
Note: Only those forest administration officials who were specifically exempted from personal labor in wood‑cutting operations by explicit orders or resolutions issued by the relevant provincial forest administrations or other authorized forestry bodies shall be relieved of this obligation; however, the provincial chiefs of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs are required to verify that those so exempted were indeed engaged in the necessary work of wood‑cutting.
4. The provincial chiefs of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs are obligated to submit to the Council of Defense a concise monthly report on their implementation of this resolution.

Fuel

1 The draft was prepared by V. A. Avanesov, Deputy People’s Commissar for State Control. With the exception of paragraph 1, Lenin crossed out the entire text of the draft and replaced it with his own formulation. The revised and supplemented draft, as amended by Lenin, was approved by the Council of Defense on March 12, 1920 (Protocol No. 104 of the Council of Defense, dated March 12, 1920).
2 Reference is made to the resolution of the Council of Defense issued on November 21, 1919—and published in Izvestia of the All‑Russian Central Executive Committee, No. 268, dated November 29, 1919 (the document erroneously states “1920”): “On the engagement of all employees of the forestry administration and all forestry bodies under the People’s Commissariat for Agriculture… in wood‑cutting operations.”