V. I.

Lenin

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To:   N. P. GORBUNOV

Comrade Gorbunov:

I have just spoken to you on the telephone about this draft. Request: speed up all this business, and all the
many drafts, so as to have the lot go to the Narrow C.P.C.,
say, on
Saturday. [1]

27. I.1921. Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
On January 27, 1921, Lenin received Maxim Gorky and a delegation of the Joint Council of Scientific Institutions and Higher
Schools of Petrograd, consisting of Academician S. F.
Oldenburg, permanent secretary of the Academy of Sciences of Russia;
Academician V. A. Steklov, Vice-President of the Academy, and
Prof. V. N. Tonkov, President of the Military Medical Academy.
During their talk, they handed in a draft decree on ensuring
scientific research work in the Republic. Together with Lenin’s
note written on the draft it was sent on to N. P. Gorbunov. On
February 1, 1921, the C.P.C. discussed the draft decree,
submitted by the Narrow C.P.C., on the means required to normalise
the work of educational research and technical research
institutions in the R.S.F.S.R.