Date: 1920-05-28
Source: ru:LS/v38

in 1919, and had been working at the VSNKh. Suspected of espionage, Kili
On May 12, 1920, he was detained at the border by the Special Department of the 7th Army
and transferred to the Special Department of the VChK.
On June 25, V. I. Lenin requested that V. R. Menzhinsky, head of the Special Department of the VChK,
provide information regarding the evidence that had led to Kili’s arrest.
Menzhinsky confirmed that Kili had engaged in espionage.

In July 1920, Kili’s case was referred to the Supreme Tribunal
under the All‑Russia Central Executive Committee, which found him guilty of transmitting, via illegal channels,
to the United States malicious and slanderous reports concerning Soviet Russia and the Communist Party; on April 24, 1921, Kili
was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. On August 4, 1921, the Presidium of the All‑Russia Central Executive Committee granted Kili’s petition for release, and he was permitted to depart for the United States.

In the second part of his letter, G. V. Chicherin reported on a telegram received from G. K. Ordzhonikidze regarding Georgian affairs.
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NOTE TO V. A. AVANESOV
May 26, 1920
T. Avanesov! I am informed that automobiles are not being allocated—contrary to the directive issued by Comrade Milyutin (VSNKh)—even for foreign nationals, due to certain irregularities within the Automobile Section (of the VSNKhOz; headed by Bondarenko). I earnestly request that you conduct a thorough and rigorous inspection of this matter—1.
Yours, Lenin
1 On May 28, 1920, V. A. Avanesov, a member of the Collegium of the People’s Commissariat for Railways and Communications, issued the following directive: “Urgent. Please ensure that this matter is carried out—while I agree that, given the ongoing mobilization, it is impossible to provide operational vehicles, we can nonetheless draw upon repaired vehicles; therefore, expedite the transfer of those automobiles that the automobile depot will repair using its own resources.”
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INScriptions, Notes, and Underlinings on
Telegrams Relating to
the Agronomic
Administration under the People’s Commissariat for Railways 1
[May 1920, prior to the 28th]

Copy
Telegram
To all nodal railway consumer societies and
agricultural organizations of the railways: The Sovnarkom, the People’s Commissariat for Railways, the People’s Commissariat for Roads, and the executive committees of all railways—the agronomic administrations under the NKliC.

The Central Council of Trade Unions and the Railway Producers’ Union propose that all production-based agricultural [enterprises] equipped with inventory and staff—whether located within or beyond the expropriation zone—should not be transferred to the agronomic services. The Sovnarkom has rejected the agronomic administrations’ request to transfer such enterprises, and until the Sovnarkom reaches a final decision, the transfer remains unenforceable. Only cultural and educational activities, along with equipment situated within the expropriation zone, as well as staff no longer required [for] the operation of production farms, may be transferred. Agronomic personnel are permitted to work in agronomic services on a part-time basis.
Signed by Amosov, Chairman of the Central Council of Trade Unions
Platonov, Responsible Secretary of the Central Council of Trade Unions
Kravets, Chairman of the Supply Council for Railway Workers
Date?
X What does this mean?
Please verify.

To the Organizational Bureau of the Central Committee, addressed to Comrade Krestinsky, with a copy to Comrade Lenin
…At the NKPS meeting held on March 4, under my chairmanship and with the participation of representatives from the Central Council of Trade Unions, it was resolved that the Central Council of Trade Unions would issue telegraphic directives the following day regarding the transfer of agricultural enterprises to the agronomic services. This resolution was not implemented. Instead, protracted, sabotage‑ridden negotiations and meetings ensued—and in the end, citing technical issues related to the transfer process, the aforementioned comrades in the railway telegraph office issued an order refusing to comply with the Sovnarkom’s resolution…
Date?
To the Organizational Bureau, Price.
1 On February 26, 1920, the Sovnarkom adopted the Regulations concerning the Agronomic Administration under the People’s Commissariat for Railways.
The purpose of the Agronomic Administration under the NKPS was to: organize and coordinate agronomic activities across the railways; support the production of agricultural goods to meet the needs of railway workers; promote the overall development of agricultural culture within the expropriation zone; carry out agronomic initiatives on the railways in full alignment with the state’s overarching land and agricultural policies; and implement the decree of February 15, 1919, concerning the establishment of Soviet farms by industrial proletarian institutions and associations. Among the tasks of the Agronomic Administration were to provide material and organizational assistance to railway workers in their agricultural endeavors, to disseminate agricultural knowledge among railway personnel, and to make rational use of the expropriation zone and of idle lands in forestry and peat‑extraction operations.
The Sovnarkom’s resolution of February 26, 1920, mandated that the Central Council of Trade Unions transfer all agronomic enterprises on the railways to the jurisdiction of the Agronomic Administration. However, this directive was never fulfilled.