V. I.

Lenin

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ASSIGNMENTS TO SECRETARY [1]

1

Request a report from the Supreme Economic Council on the electrification of Yaropolets Volost (or Yaropolets
District), Volokolamsk Uyezd, Moscow
Gubernia. [2]

Copper is the main thing.

Engineer Ringo , who is in charge of the Moscow
Gubernia Electrical Department, favours the starting of local
electrical fittings factories (for instance, Vishnyakov’s and
Shamshin’s in Moscow), with the raw materials, incidentally, available at the warehouse in Raiovo (artillery depot
of Moscow Gubernia, nine versts away from Moscow:
millions of poods of copper brought together from various parts,
especially Poland, during the war).

( Find Out about Ringo)

(1) assist electrification (2) public education (3) flax growing.

2

Keep secret , and give me a reminder when Kirillin from
Yaropolets (Volokolamsk Uyezd) comes to see me.