Date: 1921-04-09
Source: ru:PSS/v52
Source: CW vol 52

Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky
Copy to Glavtorf

To raise peat extraction, it is necessary to widely promote - leaflets, brochures, traveling exhibitions, cinematographic films, publication of textbooks; to introduce a mandatory subject in schools and higher technical educational institutions on peat extraction; to compile textbooks; to send an expedition abroad annually.

Specifically needed: 1) to instruct the State Publishing House to print by April 15, in a quantity of 100,000 copies, a one-and-a-half-page brochure "Peat," submitted by Glavtorf on February 8 of this year to the agitation department comrade Mordvinkin, and to accept for printing from Glavtorf another three brochures and leaflets, so that they are released by May 1; Glav-

I. I. KUTUZOV. APRIL 9, 1921.

torf needs to issue 15,000 brochures for distribution.

2) To instruct the cinema department, during May, to film 12 reels - under the guidance of Glavtorf - of peat extraction (for Russia, Ukraine, Ural, Belarus, and Siberia).

3) To instruct Glavprofobr jointly with Glavtorf, by June 1, to develop a project for a mandatory course in schools and higher educational institutions on peat extraction.

I ask you to send me copies of your orders and responses from the relevant institutions and individuals, indicating the deadline*.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

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Written on April 9, 1921.

First published in 1932 in Lenin Collection XX

Printed from the typescript supplemented and signed by V. I. Lenin