V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v51; en:CW/CW44;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

No. 5

TO COMRADE G. M. KRZHIZHANOVSKY

Gleb Maximilianovich! Please return this to me after reading pp. 20-21, with a word or two.

Yours, Lenin

...Undoubtedly, at first, just as is being done at present throughout Europe and America, we must devote special attention to the rational utilisation of the existing electrical engineering equipment. It is difficult to overestimate the importance that the accelerated starting up at full capacity of our main existing electric power stations, the joint operation of groups of stations, and the rational utilisation of electric networks may have at the present time.

Latterly we have observed a widespread tendency throughout our provinces to build new small stations, especially in cases where it is possible to utilise some water power. However vital this trend may be, we must not forget that only large regional stations are decisive for expedient electrification...

...At present the work is three-quarters completed, and from the middle of July we shall start on the final compilation for submitting the corresponding report to the Council of People’s Commissars. Only when this work is fully completed shall I be able to give you a more concrete outline of what we mean when we speak of the electrification of Russia’s agriculture, industry and transport, bearing in mind a definite sequence of works covering approximately the period of the next ten years.

G. Krzhizhanovsky

Here precisely the question arises: so far, in five whole issues of the “Bulletin”, we have only “schemes” and “plans” for the distant future, but nothing about the immediate future.

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What exactly (precisely) is lacking for “accelerating the starting up of existing electric power stations”?

That is the crux. But not a word about it.

What is lacking? Workers? Skilled workers? Machines? Metal? Fuel? Something else?

A “plan” for obtaining everything that is lacking must be drawn up and published at once.

26/IX. Lenin