"Zheleznyakov" - Armored train

Light Bronyepoyezd (Bronyepoyezd = bepo or armored train)

Also called Armored Train Number 5

Soviet armored train of Crimean construction in the Second World War

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“Zheleznyakov” (“Armored Train Number 5“)

Armored train number 5 "Zheleznyakov" BO GB BSF: visible 34K gun and anti-aircraft machine guns

Armored trains in Crimea were built using naval armor and naval guns and were part of the Navy. Crimean armored train "Zheleznyakov", photo March 1942.  Soviet armored train "Zheleznyakov".  In 1941-1942, the Zheleznyakov armored train made more than 140 combat exits, destroying at least nine German bunkers, thirteen machine-gun nests, six dugouts, one heavy battery, three aircraft, three tanks, three cars, ten wagons with cargo, up to one and a half thousand soldiers and officers enemy.  On June 27, 1942, it was overwhelmed by enemy aircraft in the Troitsky tunnel. DShK anti-aircraft machineguns of Russian armored train Zheleznyakov