The Petrovskoye Industrial Group[1]
Written: 25 May, 1921
First Published: July 1929 in the journal Vestnik
Rabochego Pravlenia No. 9-10; Printed from the journal text
Source: Lenin’s
Collected Works, 3nd English Printing, Progress Publishers, Moscow,
1977, Volume 42, page 308
Translated: Bernard Issacs
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& R.
Cymbala;
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Comrade Mezhlauk has told me of the great success in your work during April 1921: 294 poods per hewer compared with 291 poods in 1914. I congratulate our miner comrades on this outstanding success and send my best greetings. At this rate we shall overcome all difficulties and electrify the Donbas and’Krivoi-Rog district, and that means everything.
With communist greetings,
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
[1] This letter was written during the visit of I. I. Mezhlauk, then Director of the Petrovskoye Metallurgical Works, and was read at a meeting of the workers. It created a fresh upsurge of labour activity among the miners of the Donbas.