Comrade Popov!

I have received the statistical tables of the population by administrative divisions of the RSFSR.

1) I request that in printing you clarify (it is not stated, for example, that this is from the census of 28 August 1920).

2) Autonomous regions and republics (the Karelian Labor Commune, Bashkir, Tatar, etc.) should be separated from the list of gubernias and placed separately, having coordinated (in case of doubt) with the NKVD and the Commissariat of Justice.

3) In the totals, group together the major divisions, repeating them approximately as follows:

European Russia, the RSFSR proper; autonomous republics
Ukrainian SSR, Turkestan, Caucasian republic, Far Eastern, etc.

4) Check once more whether the same territories were taken for 1914 and 1897, for example, the Bashkir republic:

1920 1,268,132
1914 357,700 (?? obvious error)