Written: 12 January, 1922
First Published: Izvestia No. 10, January 14, 1922; Dictated by telephone; Published according to a typewritten copy
Source: Lenin’s Collected Works, 2nd English Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1965, Volume 33, page 199
Translated: David Skvirsky and George Hanna
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David Walters &
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I gratefully accept your gift, which is the result of the creative initiative of the working people of Daghestan.
I wish you success in the difficult work of reviving the economy of Daghestan.
Lenin,
Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the
R.S.F.S.R.
January 12, 1922
[1] Lenin’s greeting to the working people of Daghestan was written in reply to a letter from Comrade Karkmasov, Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Daghestan Soviet Socialist Republic, in which he reported that a start had been made in tapping mineral resources. Two poods of mercury extracted In Daghestan were sent to Lenin as a production gift.