CITY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES OF MOSCOW AND PETROGRAD,

PROVINCIAL REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEES, SIBERIAN REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE
To all provincial executive committees, city executive committees
of Moscow and Petrograd, provincial revolutionary committees, Siberian Revolutionary Committee
Copies to: land departments, provincial food committees, provincial education departments,
provincial administrations, provincial labor committees, provincial statistical bureaus

In accordance with the resolution of the VII Congress of Soviets, the Council of People's Commissars has resolved to conduct demographic, professional, and agricultural censuses in August of the current year with a brief accounting of industrial enterprises.[381] For the socialist construction of the Soviet Republic, the data from these censuses will have paramount and guiding significance. I propose that you provide every possible assistance for unfailing implementation both during organizational work and during the period of conducting the censuses and urgent processing of the obtained materials to the Central Statistical Administration and its local organs, upon which the responsibility falls for conducting the aforementioned censuses. All available forces in the province and

* The telegram was also signed by the People's Commissar for Food A. D. Tsyurupa. — Ed.