649. To THE PETROGRAD SOVIET

First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV. Printed from the original. · page 411

10. VIII. 1920

Please publish an atlas,
similar to the book

Railways of Russia (publication of the A. Ilyin Cartographical Institute. Petrograd, September 1, 1918), 

1) i.e., in a single small-sized book;

2) maps each on 2 pages of the book, if possible without folding the sheets;

3) on each map the new boundaries of the gubernias (with the same colour as in Ilyin’s for each gubernia). All uyezd towns;

4) railways, indicating every station;

5) new state frontiers;

6) separately: regions and territories which have fallen away from the former Russian Empire (on a separate map);

7) append some historical maps indicating the line of the fronts (of the Civil War) at various periods from 1917 to 1920.

Lenin