Question: Who did you meet among the former participants in the counterrevolutionary Trotsky-Zinovievite Opposition during your stay at the resort in Kislovodsk [a vacation town with mineral springs in the North Caucasus] in 1934?

Answer: In late September or early October, while I was vacationing in Kislovodsk, I met the former Zinovievite Rotskan by chance in Piatachka, and then soon after Mushtakov, Andrei Andreevich [Mushtakov had been a member of the Leningrad Province party committee under Zinoviev and a Leningrad delegate to the Fourteenth Party Congress in December 1925] arrived from Leningrad at the Leningrad soviet’s sanatorium with his wife. I did not know that Mushtakov was coming.

Question: What kind of conversations did you have during your meetings at Kislovodsk with Mushtakov and Rotskan?

Answer: I met very frequently with Mushtakov as we were living in the same sanatorium, Mushtakov frequently drank too much and as a result got involved in particular misunderstandings. Mushtakov and I had conversations about things we read in the newspapers. Our conversations had a proper party character and I did not notice any unhealthy attitudes with regard to the party on Mushtakov’s part. During my meeting with Rotskan the latter told me that Zinoviev and Kamenev were in Kislovodsk at the Turgenev dacha and suggested that I drop in on them, Rotskan took my address and promised to visit me, and he gave me his sanatorium address as well, I think that it was the “Tenth Anniversary of October” sanatorium.

Question: Did your meeting with Zinoviev and Kamenev take place?

Answer: The meeting did not take place, as I did not go to see them at the dacha.

Question: In your opinion, what might have motivated Rotskan’s invitation to you to go to the dacha to see Zinoviev and Kamenev? Do you consider this proposal a coincidence?

Answer: I imagine that this invitation was not a coincidence and possibly was motivated by the desire of Zinoviev and Kamenev to feel out the mood of the Leningraders.

Question: Did you meet with Rotskan after that conversation?

Answer: No, I did not meet him again in Kislovodsk or in Leningrad.

This protocol is transcribed from my words correctly and has been read through by me.