Tashkent. CC CP(b) of Uzbekistan

Karimov is not suitable as chairman of the Council of People's Commissars. This has already been communicated to you. The CC VKP(b) demands that Karimov be replaced by another candidate. Baltabaev cannot be put forward as chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, since he too has been named by those arrested -- Ryskulov, Khodzhanov, Atabaev, Faizulla Khodzhaev. Try putting forward Tyuryabekov as chairman. It seems to us that in Uzbekistan no struggle is being waged against anti-Soviet elements, and that Ikramov is surrounded by such elements, which he does not see and does not notice.

Secretary of the CC VKP(b)

STALIN

Lubyanka. Stalin i Glavnoe upravlenie gosbezopasnosti NKVD. 1937-1938. Moscow, 2004. P. 297.

RGASPI. F. 558. Op. 11. D. 57. L. 19.