To the Chief of Staff of the Revolutionary Military Council, ZR, all ZF, ZA, ZNP, TsK RK, FK RK, KRK, NOT, RN, and N of the railways of the network – copy to VSP*

* Abbreviations: ZR – Chief of the Central Military Transportation Directorate; ZF – Chief of Military Transportation of the Front; ZA – Chief of Troop Movement of the Army; ZNP – Military Assistant to the Head of the Railway; TsK RK, FK RK, KRK, NOT – not deciphered; RN – District Chief of Communications; N – Railway Directorate; VSP – Supreme Council for Transportation under the Council of People’s Commissars. —Ed.

Due to the extreme shortage of rolling stock on the railway network of the RSFSR and the necessity, in view of this, of especially careful utilisation of the same for loading, in execution of the resolution of the Council of Labour and Defence of the 13th of this October, 386, I propose for strict execution: 1) immediately take the most energetic measures to unload military freight on all railways of the front; 2) take all measures to ensure that military transportation within the front shall be unconditionally carried out in accordance with the approved plans of the VSP, allowing their increase exclusively at the demand of military circumstances and on the indispensable condition that this increase be coordinated in advance with the corresponding railway authorities. The TsK RK is instructed to submit weekly reports to the VSP under the Council of People’s Commissars on the progress of unloading rolling stock.

Chairman of the Council of Labour and Defence
Lenin

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Written 15 October 1920

First published in 1942
in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV

Printed from the typewritten
text signed by
V. I. Lenin