Omsk, Siberian Food Committee. Copy to Siberian Revolutionary Committee, copy to Kyrgyz Representation

Semipalatinsk, Provincial Food Committee, copy to Semipalatinsk, Provincial Sowing Committee

According to a personal report from member Balabolkin of the Semipalatinsk Provincial Sowing Committee, the Semipalatinsk Provincial Food Committee has reserved up to 20,000 stacks of unthreshed grain in the Aul district. Reconsider this issue, discussing it comprehensively: if threshing the grain is impossible without giving part of it to the peasants as a loan or payment for threshing, and if this loan will be used for sowing and the threshing of the remaining food grain is guaranteed, I permit a partial deviation from my order No. 410*, transferring part of the grain, but not more than 300,000 puds, for seeds under the specified conditions, while taking into account, above all, the catastrophic food situation in the workers' centers and capitals. On the measures taken based on this, telegraph me immediately, copy to the People's Commissariat of Food.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin