V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v23;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

MARKS ON A MEMORANDUM OF THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT FOR FOREIGN TRADE ON SANTONIN,
[September 16, 1921]
In reply to your communication of September 15, No. 860, we submit data on stocks and output of santonin:

1) Available in Moscow at the Bukhara Customs House: 600 poods.
2) Arrived from Turkestan in the last few days and to be handed over to the Bukhara Customs House (stock as of January 1, 1921): 125 poods 15 funts.
Total available in Moscow: 725 poods 15 funts.
3) At the Chikmen Works, probable output for the current year: 152 poods.
4) Sent to London via Reval on two occasions: a total of 150 cases, 7,500 kilos, about 465 poods.
5) First consignment of 40 cases sold in London; being sold at a price of 73½ pounds sterling per kilo.
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6) The Works has stocks of wormseed for 1–1½ years; output continues, but the semi-finished product (non-crystallised santonin), which in price is almost equal to finished santonin, and which, as it is produced, is intended (on the basis of today's negotiations with Glavfarmazov) to be sent and stored in Moscow. Estimated output for 1921: 245 poods.
600 + 125 poods = 725 poods.
7,500:16 = 468 poods.
468 poods 5,425 thousand rubles.
73.5 x
— 1,176 pounds sterling per pood — about
10 thousand gold rubles.
1,176 x 725 = 852,600 = about 7 million gold rubles.