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Lenin

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TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO A. M. LEZHAVA, F. F. SYROMOLOTOV AND S. M. FRANKFURT

Comrades Lezhava
Syromolotov
Frankfurt

Please make use of Comrade Frankfurt’s presence in
Moscow to arrange for a meeting to discuss the situation in
the gold-mining industry in Siberia and measures for developing it.

Please give me the conclusions of the meeting for referring the matter to the Council of People’s Commissars or
deciding it by way of an agreement among the departments,
etc. [1]

Lenin
Chairman, C.P.C.

27/X.

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Notes:
[1]
The People’s Commissariat for Foreign Trade replied to Lenin
that on October 28 and 29 a meeting had been held at the Chief
Gold Board with representatives of the Urals and Siberia, at which
practical measures were discussed for developing the gold and
platinum industry.