NVSHOVO-VOZNESENSKAYA POWER STATION
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TELEGRAM TO VSNKh ooo:; extremely urgent.
Presidium of VO IX, copy to NKFin and N KRKI and to Engineer
Graftio (home telephone 1-72-49. Povarskaya, 22, apt. 3^.
[September 8, 1921]
Volkhov construction, according to Graftio, is provided with
food for September — December, but work stands still due to lack of monetary tokens. Glavkomgosoor is releasing a total of 125 million to the Volkhovstroy construction for
September, while according to Graftio, more than one billion is required.
I propose to immediately provide Volkhovstroy with the necessary
amount of monetary tokens to ensure accelerated conduct of work in accordance with the number of rations released, according to the
decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of May 30 and November 5.
Send me a message about the execution no later than September 10. [826]
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (Lepin)
NOTE TO II. A. BOGDANOV.
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[September 1921]
Comrade Bogdanov! So, is it you who directly manages and
is responsible?
^Lenin wrote the note on Graftio’s inquiry about to whom the Volkhov construction is directly subordinated. Below the inquiry, Lenin wrote: “From Graftio,” then underlined with two lines and wrote in red pencil on the right, apparently later: “Chaos in Volkhovstroy.”
The note is undated, but apparently written in the period
to which Graftio's statements refer, i.e., at the beginning of September 1921.
IVANOVO-VOZNESENSKAYA POWER STATION
The project for the construction of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk regional power
station was outlined by the GOELRO plan, approved at the VIII
Congress of Soviets in December 4920. Corresponding decision
* Printed from a machine copy. Ed.