Letter to Nikolai Gorbunov, January 27, 1921

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Comrade Gorbunov:

I have just spoken to you on the telephone about this draft. Request: speed up all this business, and all the many drafts, so as to have the lot go to the Narrow CPC, say, on Saturday.[1]

27.I.1921. Lenin


The estate is said to comprise about 30 dessiatines of ploughland, and 130 of forest. The Saratov Gubernia Executive Committee is said to be agreeable. I think this should be placed before the Narrow Council right away, and an inquiry and on-the-spot study appointed through the Narrow Council.[2] 27.I.1921. Lenin

  1. On January 27, 1921, Lenin received Maxim Gorky and a delegation of the Joint Council of Scientific Institutions and Higher Schools of Petrograd, consisting of Academician S. F. Oldenburg, permanent secretary of the Academy of Sciences of Russia; Academician V. A. Steklov, Vice-President of the Academy, and Prof. V. N. Tonkov, President of the Military Medical Academy. During their talk, they handed in a draft decree on ensuring scientific research work in the Republic. Together with Lenin’s note written on the draft it was sent on to N. P. Gorbunov. On February 1, 1921, the CPC discussed the draft decree, submitted by the Narrow CPC, on the means required to normalise the work of educational research and technical research institutions in the RSFSR
  2. Written on a letter from the Academy of Sciences of Russia to the CPC of January 21, 1921, petitioning the nationalisation and transfer to the Academy of a former estate of Academician A. A. Shakhmatov, called Gubanovka-Shakhmatovka (Saratov Gubernia), for use as a rest home for scientists. On January 31, 1921, the Narrow CPC passed a decision to send an inquiry on the matter to the Saratov Gubernia Executive Committee.