V. I.

Lenin

To the Miner Comrades of the Petrovskoye Industrial Group [1]

Comrade Mezhlauk has told me of the great success in your
work during April 1921: 294 poods per hewer compared with 291 poods in
1914. I congratulate our miner comrades on this outstanding success and
send my best greetings. At this rate we shall overcome all difficulties and
electrify the Donbas and Krivoi-Rog district, and that means
everything.

With communist greetings,

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

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Notes:
[1]
This letter was written during the visit of I. I. Mezhlauk, then
Director of the Petrovskoye Metallurgical Works, and was read at a meeting
of the workers. It created a fresh upsurge of labour activity among the
miners of the Donbas.