V. I. Lenin

Concerning The Conditions Ensuring The Research Work Of

Academician I. P. Pavlov and his associates

Decree Of The Council Of People’ Commissars

In view of Academician I. P. Pavlov’s outstanding scientific services, which are of tremendous importance to the
working people of the world, the Council of People’s
Commissars decrees:

1. To set up, on the strength of the Petrograd Soviet’s
proposal, a special commission with broad powers, consisting
of Comrade M. Gorky, chief of Petrograd’s institutions of higher learning, Comrade Kristi, and member of the
collegium of the Petrograd Soviet’s Administrative
Department, Comrade Kaplun; whose task is to create, as soon
as possible, the best conditions to ensure the research work
of Comrade Pavlov and his associates.

2. To authorise the State. Publishers to print, in the best
printing-house, a de luxe edition of the scientific work
prepared by Academician Pavlov, summing up the results of his
research over the past twenty years, leaving to Academician
I. P. Pavlov the right of property in this work in Russia and
abroad.

3. To authorise the Workers’ Supply Commission to issue to
Academician Pavlov and his wife a special ration equal in
caloricity to two academic rations.

4. To authorise the Petrograd Soviet to assure Professor Pavlov
and his wife of the use for life of the flat they now occupy,
and to furnish it and Academician Pavlov’s laboratory with every possible facility.

Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Moscow, the Kremlin, January 24, 1921