V. I.

Lenin

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To:   THE PETROGRAD SOVIET

10. VIII. 1920

Please publish an atlas, similar to the book

Railways of Russia (publication of the A. Ilyin
Cartographical Institute. Petrograd, September 1, 1918),

1) i.e., in a single small-sized book;

2) maps each on 2 pages of the book, if possible without folding the sheets;

3) on each map the new boundaries of the gubernias
(with the same colour as in Ilyin’s for each gubernia).
All uyezd towns;

4) railways, indicating every station;

5) new state frontiers;

6) separately: regions and territories which have fallen
away from the former Russian Empire (on a separate map);

7) append some historical maps indicating the line of the fronts (of the Civil War) at various periods from
1917 to 1920.

Lenin