491. TELEGRAM TO T. V. SAPRONOV

First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIV. Printed from the original. · page 322

26. XII. 1919

Sapronov^[1]
Gubernia Executive Committee or Gubernia Revolutionary
Committee
Kharkov
Copy to Vladimirov, Chairman of the Special Food
Commission of the Southern Front

The transport situation is so grave here that heroic efforts are needed both for deliveries of coal here and even more for stepping up repairs to locomotives. Put the best people on this, check personally, introduce a bonus in grain   for every locomotive repaired, restore the best repair-shops, introduce work in two and three shifts. Telegraph fulfilment.

Lenin
Chairman, Council of Defence

Notes

[1] At the top of the manuscript, Lenin wrote: “top priority, by direct line. Inform me of the hour of delivery to addressees in Kharkov. Lenin.”—Ed.