"General Alekseev" - Armored train

Before January, 1919 it was called the "1st Armored Train" Bronepoezd (Armored Train)

Finally named the ‘General Alekseev’ Bronepoezd (Armored Train)

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‘General Alekseev’ (‘1st Armored Train’)

As well as United Russia and Forward for the Motherland, this armored train, originally called the 1 Armored Train, was formed from armored platforms captured from the Reds at Tikhoretskaya station on July 1, 1918. It consisted of one armored platform with a 3-inch cannon of the 1900 model on a gun carriage and one machine-gun platform. Colonel Stremoukhov was appointed commander of the armored train.

The armored train, paired with the "Long-Range Battery", took part in the offensive from Tikhoretskaya at the Sosyka and Kushchevka stations, and then took part in the battles for Armavir in late August - early September 1918. After the capture of Armavir, the armored train was directed to the Armavir - Tuapse section, where on September 6, during a night raid on the Kurgannaya station, it collided with the "Sea" armored train. Due to the damaged path, the squad could not return, and was captured by the Reds (see the description of this battle).

At the end of September, the "1st Armored Train" received a new warhead to replace the lost one, and was sent to the Torgovaya station on the Tsaritsyn - Tikhoretskaya line. Now it consisted of armored platforms with 3-inch guns of the 1895 and 1902 models, which allowed circular shelling, and one machine-gun armored platform. Colonel Zelenetsky was appointed commander of the "1st Armored Train".

Subsequently, he took part, together with the heavy armored train "United Russia", in the attack on Stavropol along Tuapsinka from Armavir in the second half of October 1918. However, it did not reach Stavropol, but, like United Russia, was transferred to the Armavir - Nevinnomysskaya branch.

The armored train received the name "General Alekseev" in January 1919. In February 1919, Colonel Shamov became the commander of General Alekseev. Nothing is known about his actions in 1919. In 1920, the armored train again came to the Kuban. In March, his team consisted of 70 people, and was evacuated to the Crimea. The combat strength, apparently, was left near Novorossiysk, or thrown into the sea in Tuapse.