Siemens-Schuckert (Saint Petersburg)

Siemens-Schuckert was the name of an electric motor factory in the Vasilyevsky Island district in Saint Petersburg (later renamed "SM Kirow") that was founded in 1853.

In January 1917, workers were working at the plant in 1970. At the plant there was an organization of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party with 120 members (as of September 1917), which was headed by K. Samzow. In March 1917, sections of the workers' militia were established in the plant, led by ZV Yermakov as the commander. In October 1917, 100 men were formed into a group of the Red Guard .

The divisions of the Red Guard led in October 1917 by WW Chekmarev. The Red Guards took part in the occupation of the Warsaw train station, the city duma and the assault on the Winter Palace . They protected the south-western entrances to Petrograd from the counter-revolutionary troops.

Later they fought in the village of Alexandrowskoye south of Pulkovo and Gatchina in the suppression of the uprising organized by Kerensky and Krasnov . After the October Revolution , the party members of the plant participated in building the structures of the new government, especially the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs.