152. To I. G. ALEXANDROV

Written on May 6, 1921 · First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 52. Printed from the original. · page 139

Find an engineer in Gosplan^[1] who would be not only reliable, but also a practitioner, for the commission to carry out an on-the-spot inquiry of Algemba,^[2]

so as to make a sound evaluation of the main points:
protection of materials (in different conditions)

α) stop construction,

β) ” not at once but by the autumn,

γ) switch from shock to ordinary site,

δ) complete construction, but do not lay rails, etc.

Notes

[1] The State Planning Commission.—Ed.

[2] A reference to G. M. Krzhizhanovsky’s letter of April 12, 1921, on the inadvisability, in that period, of extending the Emba oilfields.

Algemba–Alexandrov-Gai-Emba branch-line.