V. I.   Lenin

528

To:   THE PEOPLE’S COMMISSARIAT FOR FOREIGN TRADE

Written: Written on December 2, 1921
Published: First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIII. Printed from a typewritten copy.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, page 393^b.
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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To the P.C.F.T.
Copy to Comrade Pyatakov—for his information

I propose that we order for the Central Board of the Coal Industry of the Donets Basin catalogues from foreign— German, American, British—companies supplying:

a) mining equipment in general,

b) wire rope,

c) pumps,

d) electrotechnical materials,

e) coal-cutters, conveyers, etc.,

f) tools,

g) metal articles in general and wire in particular.

Please send a report on execution to Comrade Gorbunov, C.P.C. business manager.

Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

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