Date: 1917
Source: ru:PSS/v51

# The Council of People's Commissars has resolved to suspend, on the terms listed below and until a new special resolution*, the cutting of firewood by the personal labor of foresters, assistant foresters, and forest guards, imposing upon them the duty to exert all efforts in preventing and extinguishing fires by: 1) generally increasing constant supervision, especially in areas particularly hazardous for fires, such as along railway lines and major roads, and at sites where harvested timber is stored.

Source: LCW vol 51

* The words "until a new special resolution" and the last paragraph of the telegram are written in V. I. Lenin's handwriting. Ed.