"Atamanets" - Armored train

Light armored train VSYUR Bronepoezd

White Forces South of Russia

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"Atamanets"

On March 9, the Forward for the Motherland armored train reached the Goyth station , about 35 versts from Tuapse, with an assault force consisting of an Armavir officer company and a Plastun battalion . Our armored trains stood at night at the Goyth station while the debris was being cleared in the tunnels, and by the evening of March 10 they arrived in Tuapse. Around March 15, the Tuapse group of armored trains was formed, at the head of which was put Captain Zuev, the commander of the Stepnoy armored train. After several days spent in Tuapse in reserve, the Forward for the Motherland armored train set off on March 21 to the Goyth station, carrying a shunting locomotive and several carriages loaded with stones to block the tunnels. Our armored trains "General Kornilov" were already at the Goyth station.and "Thunder of Victory"... Our three armored trains set off about 15 versts further, to the Navaginskaya station, and found out that the enemy troops were not advancing. Nevertheless, the head of the 2nd Kuban division ordered to fill up the tunnels at the Goyth station, which was done. On March 22 and 23, teams of armored trains: "General Kornilov", "General Drozdovsky", "Thunder of Victory", "Stepnoy" and "Atamanets" and the 3rd battery of the Naval Heavy Artillery received an order from the Chief of the Tuapse Region Group of Forces, General Pisarev, to disarm their armored trains. The locks were removed from the guns, machine guns and stocks of shells and ammunition. After that, the teams were taken by steamer to the Crimea. The commander of the Forward for the Motherland armored train, Captain Yuriev, was ordered to choose the lightest of the abandoned armored platforms.which could act on the path of the unfinished railway Tuapse - Sochi, covering the retreat of our troops. One of the armored platforms of the Victory Thunder armored train was chosen. On March 24, the Forward for the Motherland armored train took part in the rearguard battle at the Goyth station. On the same day, part of the armored train crew was taken to a steamer in the port of Tuapse, onto which two guns and towers were also loaded from the armored platforms of the Forward for the Motherland armored train and two guns from the armored platforms of the General Kornilov armored train. In the evening the steamer set off for the Crimea.On the same day, part of the armored train crew was taken to a steamer in the port of Tuapse, onto which two guns and towers were also loaded from the armored platforms of the Forward for the Motherland armored train and two guns from the armored platforms of the General Kornilov armored train. In the evening the steamer set off for the Crimea.On the same day, part of the armored train crew was taken to a steamer in the port of Tuapse, onto which two guns and towers were also loaded from the armored platforms of the Forward for the Motherland armored train and two guns from the armored platforms of the General Kornilov armored train. In the evening the steamer set off for the Crimea.