TITLE: Drinfeld's 1988 letter to Schechtman: translation request
QUESTION [9 upvotes]: Inspired by an old question by Kevin Lin and the communal translation of an answer by Laurent Fargues, I am proposing a communal effort to translate from Russian to English Drinfeld's famous 1988 letter to Schechtman: typeset and in the handwritten original.
I am starting a blank, communal answer below in which to whip up the translation. Thanks in advance for any contributions!

REPLY [11 votes]: Keith Conrad has kindly produced a translation available here. It can be cited as

Vladimir Drinfeld, A letter from Kharkov to Moscow. EMS Surv. Math. Sci. 1 (2014), 241-248. doi:10.4171/EMSS/5