428. To THE DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF THE SUPREME ECONOMIC COUNCIL

First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV. Printed from the original. · page 287

30. IX. 1919

Comrade Lomov
or Milyutin
Deputy Chairmen, S.E.C.

Comrade Lomov,

Please forward to the appropriate department 

1) the enclosed document with an instruction to let me know what precisely has been done in this sphere,^[1]

2) an inquiry as to what has been done to utilise the oil occurring (according to Kalinin) within 70 versts of Orenburg.

With comradely greetings,
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Notes

[1] This refers to A. S. Solovyov’s memo on “Ukhta Oil” sent to Lenin on September 23, 1919.

On this subject see also this volume, Document 14.