Mandate of the State Defense Committee, 26 August 1941

Source: Tom 18

Source: Tom 18

GKO No. 586

Deputy Chairman of the State Defense Committee Comrade MOLOTOV V.M., member of the State Defense Committee Comrade MALENKOV G.M., People's Commissar of the Navy Comrade KUZNETSOV N.G., Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR Comrade KOSYGIN A.N., Commander of the Red Army Air Forces Comrade ZHIGAREV P.F., and Chief of Artillery of the Red Army Comrade VORONOV N.N. are authorized by the State Defense Committee to examine and decide, jointly with the Military Council of the Supreme Command of the Northwestern Direction and the Military Council of the Leningrad Front, all questions pertaining to the defense of Leningrad and the evacuation of enterprises and population of Leningrad.

Chairman of the State Defense Committee

I. Stalin

Izvestiya TsK KPSS. 1990. No. 9. P. 209.