^Lot 235 Nikita Khruschev

Dynamic, often belligerent, highly influential leader of the Soviet Union (1894–1971) from 1953, when he came to power upon the death of Stalin, to 1964, when he was forced to retire by his own party. DS, in Russian, one page, 8 x 11.25, 1944. Khruschev asks that the Peoples Commissar of Railroads, Lazar Kaganovich, connect the factory of “Communar” with the rail line over the new bridge over the Dnepr River. Signed at the conclusion by Khruschev as premier of the Ukraine. In very good condition, with central horizontal and vertical fold, repaired punch holes and areas of paper loss to left edge, a few small edge tears and creases, and a couple of pencil notations.