V. I.

Lenin

152

To:   I. G. ALEXANDROV

Find an engineer in
Gosplan [1] who would be not only reliable, but also a practitioner , for the commission to
carry out an on-the-spot inquiry of
Algemba, [2] so as to make a sound evaluation of the main points :

protection of materials (in different conditions)

α) stop construction, β) ” not at once but by the autumn, γ) switch from shock to ordinary site, δ) complete construction, but do not lay rails , etc.

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Notes:
[1]
The State Planning Commission.— Ed.

[2]
A reference to G. M. Krzhizhanovsky’s letter of April 12, 1921, on the inadvisability, in that period, of extending the Emba oilfields.

Algemba –Alexandrov-Gai-Emba branch-line.