5) Add a brief text (in accordance with the brochure of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs) on the changes (in the composition of uyezds and volosts) in the guberniyas and oblasts.

Chairman of the C.L.D. *V. Ulyanov (Lenin)*

P.S. It is desirable to add also: the states that separated from the RSFSR which had been part of the former Russian Empire, area, population in 1897 and 1914 (if available), if this does not cause difficulty.

Chairman of the C.L.D. *V. Ulyanov (Lenin)*
P.P.S. Could we also add the number of uyezds, volosts, towns, villages (similar to the 1914–1915 yearbook).

Chairman of the C.L.D. *V. Ulyanov (Lenin)*

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Written on October 17, 1921.

First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIII.

Printed from the typewritten copy.