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Trotsky’s train

Trotsky’s train was set up in the night from 7 to August 8, 1918 in Moscow by the Moscow-Kazan railway. Initially it was called the People’s Commissar train, and after the appointment of Trotsky to the presidency created by the Revolutionary Military Council in September, it was called the train of the President of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic.

This train, as evidenced by documents, consisted of 12 wagons, while always traveling from east to west and from south to north, with 232 people, including 30 of the Latvian Soviet infantry regiment, seven of armored car crew, eighteen soldiers of the fighting marine detachment, nine troopers, twenty-one in the machine-gun squad, seven telephone operators, four of the telegraph Narkomputsoobsch, six representatives of Vikzhedora, five representatives of Okrvoenkom, a man of Glavnachsnabzh, three Rights of Voenzakonsoveta, Moscow depot brigade of twenty-four, ten drivers, five cyclists, five motorcyclists, thirty-seven agitators (naturally, all with weapons), eight signalmen OPERODa, seven employees in the dining car, a commandant, six medical staff, ten in saloon car number 431, five in the saloon car number 432.

Thanks to Grover Furr for the link.

Trotsky’s train