V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v20 (Leninskiy Sbornik XX, pp.73-74). English: machine translation.
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek deepseek-v4-pro) from the Russian; AI-translated.

TELEGRAMS TO G. K. ORDZHONIKIDZE

I

To Ordzhonikidze by direct line. March 29, 1921

We have received a desperate telegram from Narimanov, Buniatzade and Serebrovsky, justly pointing to the complete impossibility of returning the Eleventh Army to a hungry and plundered Azerbaijan. Take the most energetic measures to keep this army in Georgia and at all costs speed up the import of grain from abroad in exchange for concessions in Georgia, [for] manganese, etc. Reply quickly.

On behalf of the Political Bureau,
Lenin

II

To Ordzhonikidze

July 17, 1921. 12:30 p.m.

First: please inform me of Stalin’s state of health and the doctors’ opinion on it; second: it would be extremely important for us to obtain from the Turks as a concession those copper mines south of Batum which have passed to them. Inform me whether steps have been taken, and what steps. Third: Krasin is in Moscow; we must take advantage of this to clear up fully the position of the Transcaucasian Foreign Trade Department. Fourth: inform me of Gekker’s state of health and when he finishes his treatment.

Lenin

¹ G. K. Ordzhonikidze—in 1921 Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan.
² N. Narimanov (1872–1925)—Chairman of the Azerbaijan Revolutionary Committee.
³ D. Buniatzade—People’s Commissar for Education of Azerbaijan.
⁴ A. I. Serebrovsky—Chairman of Azneft (Azerbaijan Oil).