**TO BAKU**

**Ordzhonikidze**

Serebrovskii should not take offense at the tone of my telegram: I was concerned about the fate of Baku. I consider Serebrovskii a most valuable worker. I require from you frequent and accurate information about the results of work on improving the oil industry in Baku, as well as about the results of foreign trade operations. Show this telegram to Serebrovskii.

Chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense Lenin

Written June 18, 1921

First published in 1932 in Lenin Miscellany XX

Printed from the manuscript