Stalinogorsk. Combine "Moskvaugol." Comrades Onik, Reznikov. Trust "Mosshakhtstroi." Comrade Paramonov. Moscow, Moscow Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), Comrade Chernousov. January 10, 1945.

I congratulate the collective of workers, engineering-technical personnel, and employees of the combine "Moskvaugol" and the trust "Mosshakhtstroi," who in a short time have fully restored the mines of the Moscow Coal Combine destroyed by the German-Fascist invaders, on the more than doubling of coal output compared with the pre-war period and on the commissioning, under the difficult conditions of wartime, of 11 mines with a capacity of 9,500 tons per day.

I express my confidence that the collective of workers of the Moscow Coal Basin, which gave 660,000 tons of coal above the plan in 1944, will ensure in 1945 further growth of coal output and the construction of new mines.

I wish you success in your work.

I. Stalin

Pravda. 1945. January 10.