The Government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic hereby authorises Sergei Mironovich Kirov to conduct negotiations on the conclusion of an armistice, on the preliminary conditions of peace, and on peace with the Polish Republic.

Sergei Mironovich Kirov is authorised to conclude and sign treaties both on an armistice and preliminary conditions of peace, and on peace with the Polish Republic.

The peace treaty is subject to subsequent ratification.

Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars
of the Russian Soviet Federative
Socialist Republic
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Moscow, 8 September 1920

Published from a typewritten copy.