861.01/2237: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Steinhardt) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 6, 1941—10 p.m.]
Following telegram has been received from Dickerson.93
15. August 5, noon. Observation and personal contact indicate that the following are among the organizations which have already been partly or wholly transferred to Kazan from Moscow and Leningrad: R. S. F. S. R.94 Commissariats for Food Industry, of Trade Industry, of Trade, and Local Industry, All-Union Commissariats for Food Industry, of Trade, and Light Industry. In addition representatives of the All-Union Commissariats for Rubber Industry, and General Machine build up Industry have recently arrived. Part of the staff and equipment of Moscow Pravda, the Academy of Science, and the Committee for Arts and for Higher Education, as well as a nucleus of the Central Club of Red Army and Navy have also been evacuated to this city. A number of Leningrad and Moscow plants producing food stuffs and synthetic and reclaimed rubber have been moved here, and there are indications that equipment from factories situated west of Kazan and producing machinery and armaments is being installed in this district. Refugees from the Baltic States, Leningrad and Moscow are continuing to arrive. Dickerson.
- Charles E. Dickerson, Jr., First Secretary of Embassy in the Soviet Union. Ambassador Steinhardt had obtained permission from the Soviet Government to send some Embassy personnel to Kazan, and this group had left Moscow on July 18, 1941, in charge of Mr. Dickerson. See the Ambassador’s telegram No. 1348, July 13, p. 898.↩
- Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic.↩