NOTE TO V. M. MIKHAILOV
To Comrade Mikhailov, Secretary of the Central Committee
Comrade Mikhailov! Copies are attached. Please distribute them, and bring the matter up for discussion tomorrow*.
1 0 /X I [1921] Lenin
1 Written on a draft resolution of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP(b) concerning the purchase of railway property belonging to the former German Front.
On November 11, 1921, N. P. Gorbunov reported on this matter at a meeting of the Politburo; he had been tasked with submitting a proposal to the Council of Labor and Defense. The Politburo decided to establish a commission to ascertain, through representatives of the RSFSR in Poland and Germany, the actual availability of the aforementioned property and its true market value. The report by N. P. Gorbunov was heard by the STO on December 14, 1921. Responsibility for negotiating the purchase was assigned to the People’s Commissariat for Trade and Industry, with the stipulation that the work be coordinated with the People’s Commissariat for Railways and with Yu. V. Lomonosov, the authorized representative of the railway mission abroad.