V. I.

Lenin

187

To:   THE PEOPLE’S COMMISSARIAT FOR POSTS AND TELEGRAPHS

Copy: Secretariat of the Council of Labour and Defence

31/V.

In confirmation of the instructions telephoned by the
C.P.C. business manager to Comrade Nikolayev , member of the Collegium of the People’s Commissariat for Posts
and Telegraphs, I propose that a report should be given in
the Council of Labour and Defence on Wednesday, June 1,
on the time-table for the first section of the radio-telephone
construction (i.e., installation of the radio-telephone
receivers in gubernia and uyezd centres over an area with
a radius of 2,000 versts around Moscow), and that the agenda for the same day should include all the matters connected
with the radio-telephone construction, namely: transfer of
former Anosov workshop to the People’s Commissariat for
Posts and Telegraphs, supply of radio-telephone works with
bank-notes directly from the centre, etc.

The People’s Commissariat for Posts and Telegraphs is requested to determine precisely the man who will bear
personal responsibility for the timely fulfilment of all the
radio-telephone construction programme now being submitted for approval by the
C.L.D. [1]

V. Ulyanov (Lenin )

Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

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Notes:
[1]
On June 3, 1921, the Council of Labour and Defence decided to
issue to the People’s Commissariat for Posts and Telegraphs five
million rubles for the technical facilities required to run a
broadcast newspaper with the aid of loudspeaker telephones in six
Moscow squares.

By its decisions of June 24 and July 6, 1921, the C.L.D. put
the duty on the People’s Commissariat for Posts and Telegraphs
to build, by March 1, 1922, four radio telephone transmission
stations (Moscow—Tashkent—Kharkov—Novonikolsk) and 280 gubernia and uyezd receiving stations within 2,000 kilometres
around Moscow.