Vladikavkaz. To the Regional Revolutionary Committee

Immediately suspend until you receive instructions from the center to enforce your resolutions [on] forced resettlement of the Cossacks of the Tarskaya, Sunzhenskaya, Vorontsovo-Dashkovskaya villages, as well as [on] forced alienation of arable land from the Cossacks for allotting it to the mountain tribes. Telegraph to the People's Commissariat [about] the motives that prompted you to adopt the above decrees. Telegraphize the execution.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin.

People's Commissariat for Land Resources Sereda.

Fund 2, op. 1, d. 14490 - original.