Date: 1922
Source: ru:PSS/v54

People’s Commissariat for Foreign Trade; I. I. Radchenko

You have been informed by Kashirstroy that the steamship “Frida Horn,” stranded in the ice near Petrograd, is carrying 1,100 crates of insulators destined for the Kashira–Moscow power transmission line. Please promptly report what measures you have taken to remove these crates from the vessel and to re‑dispatch them to Kashira. Furthermore, according to reports from Kashirstroy, 11,900 insulators remain outside Russia, having been shipped on October 7 from the Rozental Plant. In light of the incident involving the “Frida Horn,” it is imperative that we now begin planning an alternative shipping route for these insulators—and, as the most reliable method, they should be transported by rail, accompanied by a guide, all the way to Moscow, where the insulators are to be handed over, against receipt, to the Kashirstroy office at: Maly Cherkassky, Kalyazinskoye Podvorye, Kashirstroy. Please immediately inform Comrade Smolyaninov541 of the measures you have taken and of the resulting outcomes.

Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars, V. I. Lenin

Moscow – Kremlin,

December 2/12–21, 1921

First published in 1933 in the Twenty-Third Volume of the Lenin Collection.

Printed from a typewritten manuscript signed by V. I. Lenin.

To N. P. GORBUNOV, V. A. SMOLYANINOV. December 17, 1921

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To N. OSINSKY*

People’s Commissariat for Land Affairs, Comrade Osinsky

I request that you provide me with the briefest possible responses—no more than one or, at most, two pages in total—to certain questions, so that I may present the relevant sections of my report to the Congress of Soviets with greater precision and incorporate some of the most illustrative figures.

Could you please supply me with two or three key summary figures for my report to the Congress of Soviets: first, the extent to which we fulfilled our task of supplying peasant farmers with seed materials for the autumn of 1921; second, any other tangible results and successes that had already become apparent in 1921. Should we mention the seed farms—such as the Shatilovskoye Farm and others—or the breeding stock operations, and something along those lines?

Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars, V. I. Lenin