Auction Date:2013 Nov 13 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
TLS in Russian, one page, 8.25 x 11.75, April 17, 1948. Letter to Joseph Stalin. In full (translated): “During Council of Ministers of USSR’s February 15, 1948 rendering of the decision to complete the construction of and put into operation the Dashava-Kiev gas pipeline by December 1948, the question regarding provision of tractors for the construction remained unanswered. This question was raised by us in front of Council of Ministers of USSR again in March, but it was not resolved, As of right now, massive line construction work is unfolding along the gas pipeline route. However, due to the lack of tractors at the construction, the welding jobs, pipe assembling jobs and the difficult river crossing are being delayed. Comrade Stalin, I ask for your decree to immediately provide thirty S-80 tractors to the gas pipeline construction.” In very good condition, with central horizontal and vertical folds, one fold through a small portion of signature, several punch holes and tears to edges, a few ink and pencil notations, and some light creases. The Dashava-Kiev gas pipeline served a dual purpose: encouraging economic growth in the Ukraine and providing the Soviet Union with a more effective way of transporting large quantities of gas. Despite a myriad of challenges—including a shortage of supplies and tractors which led to major delays—the pipeline was completed in 1949 after two years of construction. By the time Khrushchev left the Ukraine, the country’s economy had almost completely rebounded to pre-war levels of economic production.
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