14/IV.

Comrade Nikolayev!

You have informed me that Ivan Nikolayevich Chebotaryev is listed among the collaborators of Professor Romanov, the responsible organizer of the laboratory of electromagnetic waves in the Crimea.

Ivan Nikolayevich Chebotaryev is personally known to me as an honest and conscientious man. I can recommend him.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Written April 14, 1921

First published in 1932 in Lenin Collection XX

Printed from the manuscript