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Russian Civil War (RCW) Armored Train Names & Markings - White Army!

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.

Za Rodinu ("For The Homeland!") A few variations and a view of the saying on a WWII Armored Train currently on display at the WWII Memorial Museum in Moscow. Can be used for either Red or White armor. 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). Generally, White train names were painted on in white letters.

The standard White Army Chevron (source: Osprey, New Vanguard, Armored Unites of the Russian Civil War - White and Allied, by Dave Bullock & A. Deryabin, 2003). Used on White Army Trains. This was affixed anywhere on an armored train, but by April 1920, it was replaced by the roundel on Wrangel's order.

The standard White Army Roundel painted onto the sides of armored trains (source: Osprey, New Vanguard, Armored Unites of the Russian Civil War - White and Allied, by Dave Bullock, 2003). Used on White Army Trains. This was was standard on White Army trains starting in April 1920.

The standard White Army Chevron (source: Osprey, New Vanguard, Armored Unites of the Russian Civil War - White and Allied, by Dave Bullock, 2003). Used on White Army Trains - flown from the train, or "tied to the front of a car, or on the side of the train's command wagon."

Imperial Eagle from the side of the White Armored Train "Forward for the Fatherland" (source: Osprey, New Vanguard, Armored Unites of the Russian Civil War - White and Allied, by Dave Bullock, 2003, Color Plate F ). (The literal translation of the complete name "Za veru Tsarya i otchestvo" is "For Faith in the Tsar and the Fatherland")

The name placard on the side of the White Armored Train "Officer". Note that this spelling of "Officer", with the tverdiy znak after the r is from pre-revolutionary Russian, while the Red Army's Armored Train with the same name "Officer" ended with the letter R. (source: Osprey, New Vanguard, Armored Unites of the Russian Civil War - White and Allied, by Dave Bullock, 2003, Color Plate F).

White Army Armored Trains in North Russia - Summer 1919 to early Spring 1920 (source: Osprey, New Vanguard, Armored Unites of the Russian Civil War - White and Allied, by Dave Bullock & A. Deryabin, 2003).

Admiral Kolchak
Admiral Nepenin
General Denikin
Guba (Lip)

White Army Armored Trains in Northwest Russia - Summer 1919 to early Spring 1920 (source: Osprey, New Vanguard, Armored Unites of the Russian Civil War - White and Allied, by Dave Bullock & A. Deryabin, 2003).

The first four trains are White trains

Admiral Kolchack
Admiral Essen (painted black, according to observers - this is the separate white on black name graphic)
Pskovitanin (Pskov native)
Talabchanin (Talab native)

The last two names are for Red Trains that engaged the Whites in Northwest Russia

Imeni Volodarskogo (In the Name of Volodarskiy)
"Putilovtsi" Imeni Tov. Lenina (Putilovs in the Name of Comrade Lenin)

White Army Armored Trains in AFSR (VSYuR - Denikin's Army) - to the Summer 1918 (source: Osprey, New Vanguard, Armored Unites of the Russian Civil War - White and Allied, by Dave Bullock & A. Deryabin, 2003). The Volunteer Army did not have any armored trains during the First Kuban Campaign, but had acquired some by the 2nd.

General Alekseev
General Kornilov (name placard is in the next graphic below)
Vpered za Rodinu (Forward for the Homeland)
Batareya Dal'nego Boya (Battery of the Distant Battle)
Edinaya Rossiya (A Single Russia, this name is to the lower right of "Batareya"
Ofitser (Officer)
Dmitriy Donskoy

Below: Picture of the Armored Train "Officer" (for maximum resolution, copy the picture below to your desktop, then view it with your favorite jpg viewer)

White Army Armored Trains in the AFSR (VSYuR - South Russia) - Summer 1918 (source: Deryabin, 2003). By the Summer 1918, the White Army had captured additional armored trains and the Armored Train OOB was as follows.

Vityaz' (Hero or Champion)
Edinaya Rossiya (A Single Russia)
Morskoy (Naval)
General Kornilov
Vpered za Rodinu (Forward for the Homeland)
Ofitser (Officer)
General Alekseev

White Army - Don Cossack Armored Trains (South Russia) - Fall 1918 (source: Osprey, New Vanguard, Armored Unites of the Russian Civil War - White and Allied, by Dave Bullock & A. Deryabin, 2003). The Don Railroad Brigade had an armored train OOB as follows.

1st Division: Ataman Kaledin, Gundorovets (someone from Gundorov), and Knyaz' Suvorov (Prince Suvorov)

2nd Division: Razdorets (Razdor native, Mityakinets (Mityakin native), Ilya Muromets

3rd Division: Partisan Polkovnik Chernetsov (Partisan Colonel Chernetsov), Kazak Zemlyanukhin, General Baklanov

4th Division: Donskoy Bayan, Ermak, Ivan Kol'tso (on this point, the Osprey states that the train is called the Ivan Krug, but I believe it should be Ivan Kol'tso)

Two independent armored trains: Ataman Orlov, Ataman Nazarov

Northern Front - Buzuluk, Khoper, and a third train of General Gusel'shchikov that was beaten back by a Red detachment.

And by August 1919, the Don Cossack Armored Train OOB looked something like this.

1st Regiment - Ermak, Ataman Erlov, Razdorets, Ivan Kol'tso (which was renamed to Donskoy Ataman Bogaevskiy), Gundorovets, Azovets (which was renamed to General Gusel'shchikov), Mityakinets, and Ataman Platov

2nd Regiment - Il'ya Muroments, Polkovnik Chernetsov, General Baklanov, Kazak Zemlyanukhin, Ataman Kaledin, Ataman Samsonov, General Mamontov, and Atamanets (the Ataman).

White Army Armored Trains of the AFSR in 1919 - 1920 (source: Osprey, New Vanguard, Armored Unites of the Russian Civil War - White and Allied, by Dave Bullock & A. Deryabin, 2003).

Above: The Ioann Kalita in Kursk, August, 1919 (source: White Russia Photoalbum, Posev, Moscow, 2003, page 153)

Above: Another view of "Na Moskvu", but this time located in Novorossiysk (source: White Russia Photoalbum, Posev, Moscow, 2003, page 190). Below: A graphic that you can copy and print to adhere to your wargaming train "Na Moskvu"

Above and Left: Heavy Armored Train "Na Moskvu" (To Moscow) in Taganrog, 1918-1919 (source: White Russia Photoalbum, Posev, Moscow, 2003, page 146)

Above top: Armored Train General Drozdovskiy at the station in Rostov Na Donu (Rostov on the Don) and Above: Heavy Armored Train Edinaya Rossiya (One Russia) (source: White Russia Photoalbum, Posev, Moscow, 2003, page 140)

Above top: Command Armored Train General Shkuro after returning from a reconnaissance run and Above: Armored Train "Officer" at Rostov Na Donu (Rostov on the Don) 1918 (source: White Russia Photoalbum, Posev, Moscow, 2003, page 139)

Armored Train of the Army of the Don "General Baklanov" (source: White Russia Photoalbum, Posev, Moscow, 2003, page 82)

Command Armored Train of Cossack Ataman Kalmykov "Kalmykovets" in Vladivostok, 1919 (source: White Russia Photoalbum, Posev, Moscow, 2003, page 226 and naming information Osprey, New Vanguard, Armored Unites of the Russian Civil War - White and Allied, by Dave Bullock & A. Deryabin, 2003, page 40 and 41) Below: The Kalmykov Emblem painted on the side of Wagon No1 of the Kalmykovets.

An armored train of the Siberian Army (1919?) (source: White Russia Photoalbum, Posev, Moscow, 2003, page 226)

The following is a by-name listing of known White Army Armored trains.

Admiral Essen (ibid)

Admiral Kolchak (source: Osprey, New Vanguard, Armored Unites of the Russian Civil War - White and Allied, by Dave Bullock, 2003).

Admiran Nepenin (ibid)

Ataman Kaledin (ibid)

Ataman Nazarov (ibid)

Ataman Orlov (ibid)

Ataman Platov (ibid)

Ataman Samsonov (ibid)

Atamanets (The Ataman) (ibid)

Azovets (ibid)

Batareya Dal'nego Boya (Battery of the Distant Battle) (ibid)

Buzuluk (ibid)

Dmitriy Donskoy (ibid)

Donskoy Ataman Bogaevskiy (ibid)

Donskoy Bayan (ibid)

Edinaya Rossiya (A Single Russia) (ibid)

Ermak (ibid)

General Alekseev (ibid)

General Baklanov (ibid)

General Denikin (ibid)

General Drozdovskiy (ibid)

General Gusel'shchikov (ibid)

General Kornilov (ibid)

General Mamontov (ibid)

General Shkuro (ibid)

Grozny (The Threat) (ibid)

Guba (Lip) (ibid)

Gundorovets (One From Gundorov) (ibid)

Il'ya Muromets (ibid)

Ivan Kol'tso (ibid)

Kalmykovets (ibid)

Kazak Zemlyanukhin (ibid)

Khoper (ibid)

Knyaz' Suvorov (Prince Suvorov) (ibid)

Mitakinets (One From Mitakin) (ibid)

Morskoy (ibid)
Na Moskvu (To Moscow) (source: White Russia Photoalbum, Posev, Moscow, 2003, page 190)

Ofitser' (Officer)(source: Osprey, New Vanguard, Armored Unites of the Russian Civil War - White and Allied, by Dave Bullock, 2003, Color Plate F).

Orel' (Eagle) (ibid)

Orlik (Young Eagle - Czech Armored Train) (ibid)

Partisan Polkovnik Chernetsov (Partisan Colonel Chernetsov) (ibid)

Polkovnik Chernetsov (probably the same as Partisan Polkovnik Chernetsov) (ibid)

Pskovitanin (One From Pskov) (ibid)

Razdorets (One From Razdor) (ibid)

Slava Ofitseru (Glory to the Officer) (ibid)

Talabchunin (One From Talab) (ibid)

Vityaz' (Knight) (ibid)

Vpered Za Rodinu (could be the same as Za Rodinu) (ibid)

Za Rodinu ("For The Homeland!") (source: Moscow WWII Victory Museum)
Zaamurets (an Armored Train Car attached to the Orlik, a Czech train)

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