To follow more closely the liquidation of the Lomonosov Mission. The draft decree should be supplemented by a clause to the effect that the National Commissariat for Foreign Trade should precisely establish the terms and order of liquidation of the Railway Mission and inform the National Commissariat for Foreign Trade1* and the Department of Affairs of the Council of People's Commissars about it.

Fond 5, op. 1, d. 149, fol. 71a - autograph of N.P.Gorbunov.

1* The document apparently reads as follows: to the People's Commissariat of Railways.

1Lenin's order is stated in a note by N.P.Gorbunov to V.A.Avanesov dated January 20, 1922. In it Gorbunov reported Lenin's order of December 13, 1921: "To subordinate Lomonosov to the NKVT, and to liquidate it by summer".

Lomonosov's railway mission to purchase steam locomotives abroad was liquidated by the decree of the RSFSR Council of People's Commissars of October 31, 1922.

See also doc. 376.