734. TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO A. M. LEZHAVA, F. F. SYROMOLOTOV AND S. M. FRANKFURT

Written on October 27, 1920 · First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV. Printed from the original. · page 454

Comrades Lezhava
Syromolotov
Frankfurt

Please make use of Comrade Frankfurt’s presence in Moscow to arrange for a meeting to discuss the situation in the gold-mining industry in Siberia and measures for developing it.

Please give me the conclusions of the meeting for referring the matter to the Council of People’s Commissars or deciding it by way of an agreement among the departments, etc.^[1]

Lenin
Chairman, C.P.C.

27/X.

Notes

[1] The People’s Commissariat for Foreign Trade replied to Lenin that on October 28 and 29 a meeting had been held at the Chief Gold Board with representatives of the Urals and Siberia, at which practical measures were discussed for developing the gold and platinum industry.