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Kronstadt mutinies. Two separate events at the Baltic fortress of Kronstadt on Kotlin Island are known as the Kronstadt mutinies. [1] The first took place on 8 November 1904, and was part of the 1904–1907 wave of political and social unrest of what became known as the 1905 Russian Revolution. The second was the July Days uprising of Russian ...
v. t. e. The Kronstadt rebellion (Russian: Кронштадтское восстание, romanized: Kronshtadtskoye vosstaniye) was a 1921 insurrection of Soviet sailors, naval infantry, [1] and civilians against the Bolshevik government in the Russian port city of Kronstadt. Located on Kotlin Island in the Gulf of Finland, Kronstadt defended ...
The mutineers looted officers' homes and wine stores and set fire to buildings. A majority of Kronstadt's 13,000 sailors and soldiers participated in the mutiny. [3] On 28 October, the troops which Vice-Admiral Nikonov ordered from St. Petersburg arrived and suppressed the mutiny. By the end of the mutiny, 16 sailors and one civilian were killed.
The 1917 French Army mutinies took place amongst French Army troops on the Western Front in northern France during World War I. They started just after the unsuccessful and costly Second Battle of the Aisne, the main action in the Nivelle Offensive in April 1917. The new French commander of the armies in France, General Robert Nivelle, had ...
The raid on Kronstadt (also known as Operation RK or the Scooter Raid) was an attack by Royal Navy coastal motor boats (CMBs) and Royal Air Force aircraft on the Bolshevik Baltic Fleet at its home base on 18 August 1919. After the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War, Allied naval units operated in the Baltic Sea to support the ...
The Baltic Fleet (E03): The challenging task of repainting the whole warship on YouTube. The Baltic Fleet (E04): 'Magnitogorsk' submarine begins its dive on YouTube. The Baltic Fleet (Russian: Балтийский флот, romanized:Baltiyskiy flot) [ 3 ] is the fleet of the Russian Navy in the Baltic Sea. Established 18 May 1703, under Tsar ...
During the October Revolution the sailors of the Baltic Fleet (renamed "Naval Forces of the Baltic Sea" in March 1918) [1] were among the most ardent supporters of Bolsheviks, and formed an elite among Red military forces. Some ships of the fleet took part in the Russian Civil War, notably by clashing with the British navy operating in the ...
Sailors of the Petropavlovsk in Helsinki, before the Finnish Civil War (Summer 1917); Flag calls for "death to the bourgeoisie".. Stepan Maximovich Petrichenko (Russian: Степа́н Макси́мович Петриче́нко; 1892 – June 2, 1947) was a Russian revolutionary, an anarcho-syndicalist politician, the head of the self-styled "Soviet Republic of Soldiers and Fortress ...