Stalinabad. CC CP(b) of Tajikistan. To Comrade Andreev.

We sanction Protopopov as first secretary, Iskanderov as second, Kurbanov as chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, Shagodaev as chairman of the Central Executive Committee.

Ashurov and Frolov will have to be arrested. You will have to leave for the CC VKP(b) plenum, calculating to be in Moscow by October 10.

Volsky should leave in a few days for Turkmenia for the purge. He will receive instructions from Yezhov.

3.X.37.

Stalin.

Sovetskoe rukovodstvo. Perepiska. 1928-1941. P. 379.

RGASPI. F. 73. Op. 2. D. 19. L. 101.