Telegram to Mikhail Frunze, May 12, 1919

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Author(s) Lenin
Written 12 May 1919


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First published in part on July 24, 1928, in Pravda No. 170. Published in full in 1934 in Proletarskaya Revolyutsiya No. 3. Printed from the typewritten copy.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1975, Moscow, Volume 44, page 227b.
Collection(s): Pravda, Proletarskaya Revolyutsiya
Keywords : Mikhail Frunze, Telegram

Frunze, Commander, Southern Group of the Eastern Front[1]

Are you aware of the grave position of Orenburg?[2] Today, through railwaymen who had spoken by direct line, I was told of the desperate request of the Orenburgers to be sent 2 regiments of infantry and 2 of cavalry, or at least 1,000 infantrymen and a few squadrons to begin with. Let me know at once what has been done and what your plans are. You will not, of course, regard my telegram as violating army orders.

Lenin

May 12, 1919

  1. ↑ The words “of the Eastern Front” are in Lenin’s handwriting. —Ed.
  2. ↑ Under pressure from the White Cossacks, the Soviet troops, which had been on the defensive east of Orenburg, withdrew and occupied positions seven kilometres from the town.
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