The October Revolution, commonly referred to as the Red October, the October Coup, the Bolshevik Coup, the Bolshevik Revolution or the October Uprising, and officially known in Soviet historiography as the Great October Socialist Revolution was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917–1923. It took place through an armed insurrection in Petrograd on 25 October 1917.
The Russian Revolution of 1905 was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire, some of which was directed at the government. It included worker strikes, peasant unrest, and military mutinies. It led to constitutional reform, including the establishment of the State Duma, the multi-party system, and the Russian Constitution of 1906.
Tomsk is a city and the administrative center of Tomsk Oblast in Russia, located on the Tom River. The city's population was 524,669 (2010 Census); 487,838 (2002 Census); 501,963 (1989 Census).
Alexander Gavrilovich Shliapnikov was a Russian communist revolutionary, metalworker, and trade union leader. He is best remembered as a memoirist of the October Revolution of 1917 and as the leader of one of the primary opposition movements inside the Russian Communist Party during the 1920s.
Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov was a Russian liberal politician and the last Governor-General of Finland.
The Department for Protecting the Public Security and Order, usually called "guard department" and commonly abbreviated in modern sources as Okhrana was a secret-police force of the Russian Empire and part of the police department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) in the late 19th century, aided by the Special Corps of Gendarmes.
UTC+07:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +07:00. In ISO 8601 the associated time would be written as 2020-04-29T23:07:11+07:00. It is 7 hours ahead of the UTC, meaning areas in this time zone would be 07:00 while UTC is shown to midnight (00:00).
Mark Andreyevich Natanson was a Russian-Jewish revolutionary and one of the founders of the Circle of Tchaikovsky, Land and Liberty, and the Socialist-Revolutionary Party. In 1917, he was a leader of the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries, supporting the Bolsheviks in the October Revolution. He was the uncle of Alexander Berkman.
St Petersburg–Finlyandsky, is a railway station in St. Petersburg, Russia, handling transport to westerly destinations including Helsinki and Vyborg.
Ivan Babushkin was a Russian professional Bolshevik revolutionary.
Troitsk is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia.
Russian anarchism is anarchism in Russia or among Russians. The three categories of Russian anarchism were anarcho-communism, anarcho-syndicalism and individualist anarchism. The ranks of all three were predominantly drawn from the intelligentsia and the working class, though the anarcho-communists – the most numerous group – made appeals to soldiers and peasants also.
The Chita Republic was a worker's republic in Chita, under control of the Soviet of Workers’, Soldiers’ and Cossaks’ from 1905-1906. Chita, a city in eastern Siberia, Russia, and a place of exile for early revolutionaries and combatants of the Russo-Japanese War, was a center for worker unrest in the early 1900s. During the Russian Revolution of 1905 armed revolutionaries under the leadership of the RSDLP headed by Viktor Kurnatovsky took control over the city and declared the Chita Republic in December 1905.
The East Siberian Railway is a railway in Russia, which runs across Irkutsk Oblast, Chita Oblast, Buryatia, and Yakutia. The railway administration is located in Irkutsk. The East Siberian Railway borders with the Krasnoyarsk Railway, Trans-Baikal Railway, and Baikal Amur Mainline. To the south, the East Siberian Railway runs close to the Russo-Mongolian border. As of 2008, the total working length of the East Siberian Railway was 3,848.1 km (2,391.1 mi); number of employees – 46,233 ; net weight hauled – 76 million tonnes ; long-distance passenger traffic – 3.6 million people ; suburban traffic – 29 million people. Annual cargo turnover is 278 million tonnes.
The Moscow uprising, which was centered in Moscow's Presnia district between December 7 and 17, 1905, was the culminating point of the 1905 Russian Revolution. Thousands of proletariat workers joined in an armed insurrection against the imperial government for better socio-democratic conditions. The uprising ended in defeat for the revolutionaries and provoked a swift counter-revolution that lasted till 1907. In many respects, the revolution of 1905 was a turning point. The December uprising played an important role in fostering revolutionary consciousness among workers throughout the country. Several years later the experience gained by the Moscow proletariat would also help them win the October Revolution of 1917.
Yeniseysk Governorate was a governorate (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and later of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic.
Ilansky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the forty-three in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the krai and borders with Abansky District in the north, Nizhneingashsky District in the east, Irbeysky District in the south, Irkutsk Oblast in the southeast, and with Kansky District in the west. The area of the district is 3,750 square kilometers (1,450 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Ilansky. Population: 25,899 (2010 Census). The population of the administrative center accounts for 62.2% of the district's total population.
Ilansky is a town and the administrative center of Ilansky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the Ilanka River 279 kilometers (173 mi) east of Krasnoyarsk. Population: 16,111 (2010 Census); 17,073 (2002 Census); 18,409 (1989 Census).
The February Revolution, known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and sometimes as the March Revolution, was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917.
Vladimir Vilensky-Sibiryakov (1888-1942) was a Russian political activist involved in the Russian Revolution.
