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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-28Last update of repository: 16 March 2020Muzei zheleznodorozhnykh voisk (Shchelkovo, Moscow Oblast)Holdings Total: statistics not available The museum holdings contain rare documents, photographs, and works of graphic art. There are copies of orders and leaflets issued by the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee for Railroad Troops (zheleznodorozhnye voiska) (1917) and copies of resolutions passed at soldiers' rallies. There is also a photocopy of a document entitled “Statute on the Organization of Military Units among Railroad Workers Through Conscription of Railroad Staff” (1918) together with various resolutions to mobilize the railroad workers as an armed force and reports from military commanders, like M.V. Frunze, and military commissars, like A.G. Kniazev. The collections include a manuscript album compiled by E.F. Veligonova (the wife of the chief of staff of the 65th Railroad Battalion) containing recollections of the defense of Odessa and photographs of the soldiers of the Adzhimushkai Garrison. The museum has collected photographs and documents illustrating the life and military training of the Special Corps of Railroad Guards, which was attached in 1932 to the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. These include photographs of the first commander of the Corps, JäÂnis Läcis (Ia.Ia. Latsis), and the chief of staff, N.I. Trubetskoi, and pictures of reconstructed sections of railroad in the regions of Sverdlovsk, Perm, and Ussuriisk. There are photographs showing military operations by the Railroad Corps to support Soviet troops fighting around the lake of Khasan in Manchuria (1938), the Halhin-Gol (Khalkhin-Gol) Riveron the Mongolian border (1939), in the occupation of Western Ukraine and Belarus (1939), and in the Soviet-Finnish War (1939). The period of the Second World War is represented in the museum by documents attesting the awards of Hero of the Soviet Union and broadsheets describing heroic deeds at the front. There are also documents relating to the defenders of Leningrad and to those who built the railroad along the banks of Lake Ladoga. The museum has a collection of newsreels from the Second World War showing the operations of the Railroad Corps in the defense of such townsas Przemyśl (Ukr. Peremyshl), Odessa, and Sevastopol. There is also lengthy documentary film chronicling the building of the Baikal-Amur Railroad and a number of films shot by amateurs. |
