Locomotive H2 293
The Finnish locomotive H2 293 is a monument locomotive that is installed in the Finnish train station in Saint Petersburg . It gained historical importance because Vladimir Ilyich Lenin fled Petrograd on it in 1917 .
history
The 2C steam locomotive was built in 1900 with the serial number 2991 at Richmond Locomotive Works and delivered to the Finnish Railways as the H2 293 .
April 3rd July / April 16, 1917 greg. Lenin had arrived in Petrograd.
On July 27 jul. / August 9, 1917 greg. he had to flee the city because the provisional government under Alexander Fyodorowitsch Kerensky had written him out for arrest. Lenin disguised himself as a stoker and, together with the engine driver Huge Jalawa, drove the H2 293 locomotive across the border to Finland to hide there. On September 24th July / 7th October 1917 greg. he returned in the same way to Petrograd and hid there in a working-class district on the Vyborg side . From there he began the October Revolution , in which he overthrew the Kerensky government. The H2 293 locomotive (from 1942 Hk1 293) continued in service with the Finnish State Railways (VR) until 1957 .
On June 13, 1957, VR donated the locomotive to the Soviet Union . It was then installed behind glass in the Finnish train station in Leningrad.
Worth knowing
- The rock group Butterflies released the Jalava song in the 1970s , which is about Lenin's return to Finland by locomotive.
- The locomotive has nothing to do with Lenin's so-called journey in a sealed car , which took place in April 1917, even if it is sometimes confused in literature.
literature
- Mikko Alameri: Railways in Finland . Josef Otto Slezak, Vienna 1979. ISBN 3-900134-22-7
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Alameri, p. 63
- ↑ Kari Siimes: Suomen Höyryveturi. H2 / Hk1. 2014, accessed October 3, 2019 (Finnish, ISBN 978-952-99638-7-4 ).
- ↑ Alameri, pp. 63, 89
- ↑ The Jalava Song (text) - on Youtube
Coordinates: 59 ° 57 ′ 20 ″ N , 30 ° 21 ′ 22 ″ W.