V. I.

Lenin

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To:   THE WORKERS, ARTISANS, OFFICE WORKERS AND COMMUNIST PARTY CELL OF PROLETARSKAYA STATION, VLADIKAVKAZ RAILWAY

20. I.1921

Dear Comrades:

From the comrades you have sent, Lavrik, Malikov and
Bykov, I learned with great satisfaction how you organised
the dispatch of a gift to the working people of the city of
Moscow. In accordance with the mandate of your general meeting, I received from your delegates Invoice No. 243
covering the cargo you dispatched: 2,002 poods of wheat,
1,869 poods 29 pounds of barley and 35 poods of flour, and
also a detailed written report about how you carried out
the procurement of salt by doing free overtime work, about
your voluntary stints without pay on holidays in general,
and about your cultural and educational work.

Instructions have been issued to have the cargo, delayed
en route through no fault of the comrades you have sent,
delivered to the People’s Commissariat for Food, and all
the foodstuffs you have sent will be handed over to the
workers of the city of Moscow.

I advise you to give more attention to cultural and educational work and the schools. I hope that through a
concerted effort you will succeed in eliminating all the
difficulties which arise.

I was especially interested in the communist farming you have introduced. One of the most important tasks
now facing the Republic is the development and boosting of agriculture. I was happy to hear your report that this
year you will be able to develop 2,200 dessiatines as ploughland, and 25 dessiatines as vegetable garden. You must
see to it that your agriculture is organised on the right
lines, as agronomic science requires, and I advise you to
get a knowledgeable agronomist for that purpose. [1]

My special request to you is that your work in the commune should be so organised as to help peasants in the
vicinity and maintain the best relations with them. Without
this and without business-like practical economic success
I have little faith in the communes, and am even somewhat
apprehensive of them.

I send you all my comradely greetings.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

I am very sorry that I was unable to see them personally
and had to ask Comrade N. P. Gorbunov to do so.

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Notes:
[1]
The following text is in Lenin’s hand.— Ed.