Telegram to Mikhail Frunze and Shalva Eliava, June 16, 1919

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June 16, 1919

Frunze-Mikhailov, Commander of the Southern Group

Samara (or the present whereabouts of the Staff

of the Southern Group)

Eliava, Member of the Revolutionary Military Council

Please convey to the Uralsk comrades my warm greetings for the heroes of the fifty days’ defence of besieged Uralsk, and my request not to get down-hearted, and to hold out just a few more weeks. The heroic defence of Uralsk will be crowned with success.[1]

Lenin

Chairman, Defence Council

  1. Besieged Uralsk was relieved by the Red Army on July 11, 1919.