I request that you or Smolyaninov receive the author — speak with him in detail, record the names of the specialists whom he knows, and all his proposals; move them along, letting me know.¹

26/I. Lenin

Written 26 January 1922

First published in 1959 in Lenin Collection XXXVI

Printed from the manuscript

¹ The reference "240" appears to be an archival or editorial notation.