707. To V. M. SVERDLOV

Written on October 1, 1920 · First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 51. Printed from the typewritten text signed by Lenin. · page 440

Comrade Sverdlov

Alexei Andreyevich Preobrazhensky is an old Party functionary who has worked on the railways for more than 20  years. At the present time he is Chief of the Administrative Service of the Samara-Zlatoust Railway. He is now 57–58 years old. He is extremely overworked and ill and needs   a lengthy rest and treatment. Please give him 3 months’ leave with pay and rations.

His address: Samara railway station.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars