V. I.

Lenin

613

To:   N. P. GORBUNOV [2]

Comrade Gorbunov:

Either you or Smolyaninov must keep this matter under special supervision. This is very important. Make a file
of everything relevant (the C.L.D. bonus decision, etc.).
Have a talk with Lomonosov. He and Krzhizhanovsky and others will hold a meeting at Gosplan on
Wednesday. [1]

The

minutes must be in your hands. Let me know the result. I
have read this to Krzhizhanovsky. He says that the competition and Lomonosov’s plan do not exclude each other.

29/ I. Lenin

P.S. I believe Styunkel has some material about this.
Someone should be collecting all the scientific literature on
this question.

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Notes:
[1]

February 1.— Ed.

[2]
This is written on a telephone message from Y. V. Lomonosov
to Lenin on January 28, 1922 (see Note 550).

On February 3, 1922, Chairman of the State Planning Commission,
G. M. Krzhizhanovsky, submitted a detailed memo giving Lenin a
progress report on implementing the C.L.D. decision of January 1,
1922, concerning diesel locomotives (see Note 500).

He believed that it was necessary, along with building diesel
locomotives to Russian blueprints, to announce an international
competition. He wrote that the work was being carried on in two
directions: the drafting of the terms of the international
competition and the “working out of outline blueprints of diesel
locomotives for their subsequent construction through the allocation
of orders to factories” (Central Party Archives of the Institute of
Marxism-Leninism of the C.P.S.U. Central Committee).

On March 10, 1922, the C.L.D. approved the terms of the
competition for the construction of diesel locomotives for the R.S.F.S.R.,
which had been worked out by the State Planning Commission
together with the Thermal Technical Institute and the People’s
Commissariat for Railways, and set March 1, 1924, as the date of the
competition (see this volume, Documents 568 and 611).