Armada #14: Tanks Of The Civil War (1999)
 
In Russian Text.
 
In Soviet Russia, the so-called armoured forces preceded the Tank Corps. They consisted of the mechanized armoured units made of armored vehicles and armored trains.
 
The country did not have its own tanks at the time, but their forces did come across the Mark V tanks. A number of the Mark V tanks saw service in the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War on the White Russian side. Most were subsequently captured and used by the Red Army during the war. Three were reactivated in 1941 for use in the Battle of Stalingrad. In January 1918, the Red Army established the Soviet of Armored Units, later renamed to Central Armored Directorate and then once again to Chief Armored Directorate.
 
During the war, the Nizhny Novgorod Machine Factory built armored trains, armoured carriages, and weapons for the vessels of the Volga Military Flotilla. In 1920, the factory remanufactured fourteen burnt-out French Renault FT tanks for the Red Army, the Russkiy Renos, and assembled a single new copy, named 'Freedom Fighter Lenin'.
 
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