DECREE OF THE COUNCIL OF LABOUR AND DEFENCE
11 JUNE 1920

1) To impose upon Moskvotop and the People's Commissariat of Railways the obligation to transport, within a three-week period, all firewood available at railway stations within a 30-verst zone around Moscow, amounting to approximately 3,000 cubic fathoms.

2) For the purpose of making the best use of empty rolling stock, to impose upon the local organs of the Transport Department of the Cheka the obligation to establish strict control over the full loading of wagons (no less than 3 cubic fathoms per wagon), with responsibility for wagons arriving incompletely loaded at control unloading points to be placed upon the aforementioned agents of the Transport Department of the Cheka. Simultaneously, to impose upon the Supreme Council of the National Economy the obligation to supply the People's Commissariat of Railways, within a one-week period, with a sufficient quantity of lead and twine for sealing firewood wagons.

3) To instruct the People's Commissariat of Railways, Glavtop, and Moskvotop to place under special accounting the forthcoming campaign to supply Moscow and major industrial cities with wood fuel.

Chairman of the Council of Defence
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)