To The Working People Of Daghestan[1]

Written 12 January, 1922 · First published Izvestia No. 10, January 14, 1922; Dictated by telephone; Published according to a typewritten copy · page 199 · Translated by David Skvirsky and George Hanna

I gratefully accept your gift, which is the result of the creative initiative of the working people of Daghestan.

I wish you success in the difficult work of reviving the economy of Daghestan.

Lenin,
Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the R.S.F.S.R.

January 12, 1922

[1] Lenin’s greeting to the working people of Daghestan was written in reply to a letter from Comrade Karkmasov, Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Daghestan Soviet Socialist Republic, in which he reported that a start had been made in tapping mineral resources. Two poods of mercury extracted In Daghestan were sent to Lenin as a production gift.