113. TELEGRAM TO S. G. SHAHUMYAN

Written on June 18, 1918 · First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV. Printed from the text of the telegraph form signed by Lenin. · page 107

Shahumyan
Baku

Via Astrakhan and Kushka, to be transmitted
by radio-telegraph

So far there has been no decree on nationalisation of the oil industry.^[1] We intend decreeing nationalisation of   the oil industry towards the close of the navigational season. For the time being we are organising a state monopoly of trade in oil products. Take all measures for the speediest shipment of oil products to the Volga. Report daily to the Chief Oil Committee on the position of the oil industry.

Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

Notes

[1] The Decree on the Nationalisation of the Oil Industry was adopted by the Council of People’s Commissars on June 20, 1918.