366. TELEGRAM TO THE SIBERIAN REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE^[1]

Written on September 4, 1921 · First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIII. Printed from a typewritten text. · page 287

Sibrevcom, Omsk.

Take urgent measures to see that the local authorities do not hold up the Yamal expedition at Omsk, giving every possible help in its instant dispatch to the place of work. Telegraph execution.

Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

Notes

[1] A reference to a polar expedition to explore waterways on the Yamal Peninsula and find a route to the ocean, which would be of great importance in developing Siberia’s economy.