To Comrade Beloborodov, copies: Comrade Sergo (Ordzhonikidze),
Comrade Radchenko, Comrade Smilga, Comrade Andreev (VTsSPS)

In view of the statement from the Regional Economic Council of the South-East to the effect that the plenipotentiary of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Trade for the S.-E. does not possess sufficient authority and is excessively limited in his independence, etc., etc., I request that you immediately convene a meeting with the participation of: Sergo (Ordzhonikidze), I. I. Radchenko (People's Commissariat of Foreign Trade), Smilga (VSNKh), Andreev (VTsSPS), with the aim of presenting the results of the meeting in the form of practical proposals to the Council of Labor and Defense on Friday, October 7, and to the Central Committee 285.

Moscow, Kremlin
October 4, 1921. V. Ulyanov (Lenin)