MEMORANDUM TO A. I. RYKOV AND V. M. MOLOTOV*.

To Comrades Rykov and Molotov.

13 July 1921

I ask you to inform me in a few lines how you have concluded the matter regarding Glavryba and Potyaev.¹ I have received another letter from a certain S. Elizarova, who heads the scientific-technical department of Glavryba. She has also appealed to the control commission with a vigorous defense of Potyaev, although she does not agree with him on a number of points, and with an indication that all serious specialists stand behind Potyaev.

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

¹ On the conflict between the chairman of Glavryba A. I. Potyaev and the People's Commissariat of Food regarding the inclusion of Glavryba in the system of VSNKh, see Lenin Collection XX, pp. 290–291, as well as pp. 288–300.

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