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Russian Civil War (RCW) - Red Army Trains, Names & Markings!

Printable flags for gaming or just standard and banner research into the Russian Civil War.  Right click the image and copy it into your favorite printing program, then size it appropriately for your scale. 

Instructions for mounting:

1.  Use a razor blade or very sharp knife, cut out the flag.  Dull blades will rip the flag sheet.
2.  Fold the flag carefully and test the fit around the staff.  
3.  When you are satisfied with the fit, apply a thin layer of white glue or glue paste to the back of the flag.  Wrap the flag around the staff.  There will be a short amount of time to make adjustments before the glue sets.   This is when the flag can be shaped to replicate “flowing in the breeze.”  Do not use cyanoacrylic glues.  These will destroy the colors of the flag. 
4.  After the glue dries, the flag can be treated with an acrylic fixative (i.e. non-water based laquer or varnish) if desired.  

Or print the text only material on clear adhesive and stick it onto your model as a decal (special printing plastic available from your local office supply store or from Gauntlet International).

Trains with a related number:

No.1  Kommunist Minska Imeni Lenina (Minsk Communist in Honor of Lenin)
No.1  Istrebitel' (Destroyer - see also train No.58)
No.1 Svobodnaya Rossiya (Free Russia)
No.1  Morskoy Imeni Lenina (Navy in Honor of Lenin)
No.1  Strelkoviy Polk Imeni Karla Marksa (Rifle Regiment in Honor of Karl Marx)
No.1  Sovetskaya Rossiya (Soviet Russia)
No.1  Varangian (changed to For Power of the Working Class in 1918)
1st Don
1st Elizavetgrad
1st Petrograd
No.2  Pobeda ili Smert' (Victory or Death)
No.2  Bogatyr (Hero, and later became 3rd International)
No.2 Grom (thunder)
2nd Bryansk
2nd Petrograd
2nd Siberian
2nd Sumy
No.3  Grozny (The Threat)
No.3  Vlast' Sovetam (Power to the Soviets)
No.3  Tsentral'naya Bronya (Central Armor - Renamed to Budenniy in 1921 - see No.64 below)
3rd Bryansk
3rd Petrograd Mstitel' - (Avenger)
No.4  Kommunar (Communard)
No.4  Imeni Uretskogo (In Honor of Uretskiy)
4th Petrograd (also see No.44 In Honor of Volodarskiy)
No.5  Karl Liebknecht
No.5  Karl Marx
No.6 Putilovtsi Imeni Lenina (Putilovs in Honor of Lenin - see Osprey Vanguard Armored Units of the Russian Civil War - Red Army by David Bullock, 2006, Color Plate F1)
7th Sumy
No.8  Osvoboditel' (Liberator)
No.9  Communist
No.10 Imeni Rozy Luxembourga (In Honor of Roza Luxembourg)
No.10 Imeni Fedora Raskolnikova (In Honor of Fedor Raskolnikov)
No.12 Imeni Tovarishcha Leonida Trotskogo (In Honor of Comrade Leonid Trotskiy)
No.15 Imeni Leytenanta Shmita (In Honor of Lieutenant Schmidt)
No.17 Smert' ili Pobeda (Death or Victory)
No.18 Ermak Timofeevich
No.19 Dobrovolets (Volunteer)
No.20 Sebezhky
No.22 Volya (Svoboda/Freedom, with the 23rd Air Balloon Detachment)
No.23 Stalin
No.24 Sovetskaya Ukraina (Soviet Ukraine)
No.25 Grom (Thunder)
No.26 Bolshevik
No.27 Shturm (Storm)
No.28 Bryansky (see also 2nd Bryansk and 3rd Bryansk)
No.29 Communist (see also No.9 Communist)
No.30 Lenin
No.32 Kronstadtsky
No.33 Chernomorets (Black Sea Fleet person - destroyed 18 August 1919, but later reformed)
No.34 Cherepakha (renamed later to Krasnoarmeets - Red Army Soldier)
No.36 Tovarishch Lenin (Comrade Lenin - see Osprey Vanguard Armored Units of the Russian Civil War - Red Army by David Bullock, 2006, Color Plate F2)
No.38 Chernomorets (Black Sea Fleet person - destroyed 24 August 1919 - this is probably the same train referenced above as No.33 Chernomorets that was noted in two different historical references)
No.39 Dobrovol'niy (Voluntary)
No.40 Krasnoarmeets (Red Army Soldier - this could be the renamed No.34)
No.40 Svobodnaya Rossiya (Free Russia)
No.41 Velikolepniy Lider Egorov Krasnoy Armiy (Glorious Leader Egorov of the Red Army)
No.42 3rd International (see No.2 Bogatyr above - this is the same train)
No.44 Imeni Uritskogo (In Honor of Uritskiy - this is probably the same train as No.4 above)
No.44 Imeni Volodarskogo (In Honor of Volodarskiy - this could be the same train as 4th Petrograd)
No.45 Imeni Tret'ego Internatsionala (In Honor of 3rd International)
No.51 Boytes' Mstitel' Poteryannikh Kommunarov (Dread avenger of the lost communards)
No.53 Sovetskaya Latvia (Soviet Latvia)
No.55 Daghestanets (Individual from Dagestan)
No.56 Kommunar (Communard - Communist in some records, this could be the same as No.4 or No.9)
No.57 Dobrovolets (Volunteer - see also No.19)
No.58 Istrebitel' (Destroyer - see also train No.1)
No.59 Imeni Sverdlova (In Honor of Sverdlov - see Osprey Vanguard Armored Units of the Russian Civil War - Red Army by David Bullock, 2006, page 42)
No.60 Imeni Karla Liebknechta (In Honor of Karl Liebknecht)
No.61 Krasni Strelok (Red Rifleman - In Honor of 3rd International in some records - see No.45)
No.63 Gibel' Kontr-Revolyutsii (Destruction of the Counter-Revolution - see Osprey Vanguard Armored Units of the Russian Civil War - Red Army by David Bullock, 2006, Color Plate G1 & Civil War in the USSR, @1986 by Moscow Military Press, Volume II, b/w plate btwn pages 144 & 145)
No.63 Chervonniy Kossak
No.64 Tsentral'naya Bronya (Central Armor - see No.3 above)
No.65 Timofey Ulyantsev
No.66 Uglekop (Coal Miner)
No.67 Volzheskiy (Volga Native)
No.71 Imeni Volodarskogo (In Honor of Volodarskiy - see both 4th Petrograd and No.44 above - in some records, this train is called Aktyrets - Akhtyr native)
No.72 Imeni Nikolaya Rudneva (In Honor of Nikolai Rudnev)
No.74 Kiev Communists
No.74 Imeni Ozoliny (In Honor of Ozolinya)
No.75 Leutanent Shmit (Lieutenant Schmidt - this is probably the same train as No.15 above)
No.76 Bolshevik (see also No.26 above - probably the same train)
No.82 Smert' Direktorii (Death to the Directory?)
No.83 Smert' Belym (Death to the Whites)
No.86 Krasniy Sibiryak (Red Siberian)
No.87 Internatsional (International, 3-ego Internatsional in some records - see No.42, No.45, and No.61 above, - see Osprey Vanguard Armored Units of the Russian Civil War - Red Army by David Bullock, 2006, page 46)
No.88 Boets za Svobodu (Fighter for Freedom)
No.89 Imeni L.D. Trotskogo (In Honor of L.D. Trotsky)
No.90 Imeni Tovarishcha Alyabaieva (In Honor of Comrade Alyabaiev)
No.92 Imeni Sorokina (In Honor of Sorokin)
No.93 Gandzya
No.94 Grom (Thunder - see also No.2 and No.25 above)
No.96 Krasniy Uragan (Red Hurricane - see Osprey Vanguard Armored Units of the Russian Civil War - Red Army by David Bullock, 2006, Color Plate E2)
No.98 Sovetskaya Rossiya (Soviet Russia - see Osprey Vanguard Armored Units of the Russian Civil War - Red Army by David Bullock, 2006, Color Plate E1)
No.99 Imeni Nevskogo (In Honor of Nevskiy)
No.100 Svobodnaya Rossiya (Free Russia - see also No.1 and No.40 above)
No.152 Molniya (Lightning)
No.204 Krasniy Astrakhan (Red Astrakhan)

Above top: Armored Train "Chernomorets" at Tsaritsyn, 1918 and above: Armored Train No.6 (Putilovtsi) In Honor of Lenin (Civil War and the Military Intervention in the USSR, Encyclopedia, 1983, Moscow, page 76 - identification of Imeni Lenina as No.6 came from profile match based on Osprey Vanguard Armored Units of the Russian Civil War - Red Army by David Bullock, 2006, Color Plate F1)

• Vsya Vlast' Sovetam (All Power to the Soviets - see Osprey Vanguard Armored Units of the Russian Civil War - Red Army by David Bullock, 2006, Color Plate F1 - this could be a misidentification of No.6 based on a slogan on the side of the train)
• Bronepoezd Tovarishch Nazarov (Armored Train Comrade Nazarov)
• Atama Churkin
• Artek
• Artem (could be the same as Artek)
• Baltiskomorets (Baltic Sailor)
• Kavaleriyskaya Diviziya (Cavalry Division)
• Kavaleriyskiy Polk (Cavalry Regiment)
• Kommunist Chepetov
• Kommunist Korostenskogo Rayona (Communist Korostenskiy Region)
• Tovarishch Blyukher (Comrade Blucher)
• Tovarishch Budenny (Comrade Budenny - see also No.3 and No.64 above)
• Tovarishch Lenin
• Rassvet (Dawn)
• Smert' Denikina (Death to Denikin)
• Smert' Vraga (Death to the Enemies)
• Smert' Parazitam (Death to the parasites)
• Smert' Vrangelya (Death to Wrangel')
• Grom 2 (Thunder 2)
• Imeni Bogucheva (In Honor of Boguchev)
• Imeni Boyka
• Imeni Bulycheva
• Imeni Egorova (See also No.41 above)
• Imeni Ivanova
• Imeni Rubinina
• Imeni Yudovskogo
• Imeni Voroshilova
• Imeni P. Zharka
• Imeni Zudyakova
• Kovrovskiy Zheleznodorozhniy Polk (Kovrov Railroad Regiment)
• Lenin (See numerous entries above)
• Osvoboditel' (see No.8 above)
• Mstitel' (see 3rd Petrograd and No.51 above)
• Pamyat' Tovarishcha Ivanova (In Memory of Comrade Ivanov - see Imeni Ivanova above)
• Pamyat' Sverdlova (In Memory of Sverdlov)
• Pamyat' 10-ogo Sentyabrya (In Memory of 10 September)
• Pamyat' Rudneva (In Memory of Rudnev - see No.72 above)
• Pamyat' Uritskogo (In Memory of Uritskiy - probably same train as No.44 above)
• Krasniy Dagestanets (Red Daghestani see No.55 above) 
• Partizan (Partisan)
• Podolskiy Internatsional
• Putilovets (later became No.2 Pobeda ili Smert')
• Proletariet
• Krasniy Znamen (Red Banner)
• Krasniy Konnik (Red Cavalryman)
• Krasnaya Moskva (Red Moscow)
• Krasniy Krest'yanin (Red Peasant)
• Krasniy Petrograd (Red Petrograd)
• Respublicanets (Republican)
• Slava K Krasnoy Brone (see train No.114 below)
• Soloma (Straw)
• Spartak (The Spartan)
• Taraschanets
• 23rd Vozdukhoplan Otryad' (23rd Airship Detachment - see No.22 above)
• Molodoy Chelovek (Young Man)
• Zarnits
• Zarya

• No.5 (light train - anti-aircraft guns)
• No.11
• No.13
• No.14
• No.16 (two trains had this number)
• No.20
• No.21
• No.23
• No.31
• No.35
• No.37
• No.43
• No.46
• No.47
• No.48
• No.49
• No.50
• No.52
• No.54
• No.58 (heavy train)
• No.58 (light train)
• No.61 (light train)
• No.62
• No.66
• No.68
• No.69
• No.70
• No.73
• No.80
• No.81
• No.84
• No.85 (see Osprey Vanguard Armored Units of the Russian Civil War - Red Army by David Bullock, 2006, Color Plate G2)
• No.91
• No.93
• No.95
• No.97
• No.101
• No.102
• No.103
• No.104
• No.114 (found near Odessa , spring 1920, has slogan "Slava K Krasnoy Brone" painted on the side of the train along with Bronepoezd No.?, see Osprey Vanguard Armored Units of the Russian Civil War - Red Army by David Bullock, 2006, page47)