The most intensive use of armoured trains was during the Russian Civil War ( 1918 – 1920 ).

Non-English names include Treno suburbano in Italian, Cercanías in Spanish, Rodalies in Catalan, Nahverkehrszug in German ( and in most larger cities S-Bahns though these trains also often include city centre metro-like sections where lines have merged and services become more frequent, and stations are closer together to better distribute passengers into the city core ), Train de banlieue in French, Příměstský vlak in Czech and Elektrichka in Russian.

In order to gain weaponry, some of the Red Guards located along the Viipuri-Tampere railway had been alerted beforehand, on 23 – 26 January, to safeguard Russian trains carrying a heavy shipment of weapons to the Finnish Reds, as agreed between Ali Aaltonen and V. I.

Additionally, Russian trains operated on a different rail gauge than Germany, meaning that unless the Russians acquired German railroad engines and cars, their armies could only be transported by rail as far as the German border.

Sixty trains were required to transport captured Russian equipment to Germany.

Blucher, outnumbered, with only Russian Lt. General Baron Osten-Sachen's wing of his army on hand ( Yorck's Prussian I Corps was out of supporting distance ) was forced to accept battle, as his army's baggage trains were too close – stuck on the muddy roads between Brienne and Dienville.

Because of the break-of-gauge at Brest, where the Russian broad gauge meets the European standard gauge, all passenger trains, coming from Poland, must have their bogies replaced here, to travel on across Belarus, and the freight must be transloaded from cars of one gauge to cars of another.

Nakhodka became both the eastern terminus for passenger trains on the Trans-Siberian Railway and only port in the Russian Far East which was open to foreigners, these factors stimulating the town's rapid growth.

This type of toilet is also used on most Russian older style trains, made in Eastern Germany ( factory, design dated probably to the 50s ), employing a pan-like shutter valve discharging waste directly on the railway.

Note that while technically all cars in Russian long-distance trains are sleeper, the term is used only for the first class ones.

Pendolino ( from Italian pendolo " pendulum ", and-ino, a diminutive suffix ) is an Italian family of tilting trains used in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Slovenia, Finland, Russian Federation, the Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, Slovakia, Switzerland, China and shortly in Romania and Poland.

The stretch between Vologda-2 and Losta is the most active one in the railroad network of the Russian Federation, with more than 120 – 150 pairs of trains running through it daily.

* State-owned enterprise " Vologda Railway-Carriage Repair Works ", branch of the Open Society of the Russian Railway – produces various trains, makes repair and reconstruction of old carriages ;

In Russian trains there is usually an emergency brake known as a " stop valve " ().

Besides cargo ( principally, Russian oil exported to China ), this crossing sees a direct weekly passenger train, Moscow – Beijing, as well as some local passenger trains.

Russian locomotive class FD 2-10-2 in Brest, Belarus | Brest museumIn the Soviet Union 2-10-2 type locomotives were used to haul heavy freight trains.

However, the Russian Federation used improvised armoured trains in the Second Chechen War in the late 1990s and 2000s.

The most intensive use of armoured trains was during the Russian Civil War ( 1918 – 1920 ).

The Czechoslovak Legion used heavily armed and armoured trains to control large lengths of the Trans-Siberian Railway ( and of Russia itself ) during the Russian Civil War at the end of World War I.

The Bolshevik forces in the Russian civil war used a wide range of armoured trains.

* Russian armoured trains

InterRégió trains use air-conditioned MÁV 6341 DMU-s which were built by the Russian Metrovagonmash.

Although Stierlitz was a much-loved character, he was also the butt of a common genre of Russian jokes, often satirising his deductive trains of thought, with unexpected twists, delivered in the deadpan style of the voice-overs in the film adaptations ; for example:

Previous presentations have been on French, Spanish, Russian, Italian, German and Japanese.

Too often in the past Russian tactics have been used to justify like tactics on our part.

In fact, one of the major reasons for the failure of the ill-starred expedition appears to have been a lack of full information on the extent to which Cuba has been getting this Russian military equipment.

Somehow, the pictures and stories of Soviet T-34 tanks on Cuban beaches and Russian Mig jet fighters strafing rebel troops has brought home to all of us the stark, blunt truth of what it means to have a Russian military base 90 miles away from home.

) In most sports, as in most walks of life, the angels are on the side of those who begin young, and the Russian competitor of 16 has at least thirteen years of training behind him.

The savage barbarian hordes of red Russian Communism descended on the Athens that was mighty Metronome, sacking and despoiling with their Bolshevistic battle cry of `` Soak the rich '!!

With detectors sensitive to three mass intervals and based on a few counts, the second and third Russian space probes indicate that the flux of the smallest particles detected is less than that of larger ones.

We stood under a gigantic tree in the rolling country just outside of Moscow looking at silent flowers on the grave of a Russian poet and writer who cherished the love for his country to the point of foregoing the highest international honor.

She did not go so far as to say, as was done on other occasions, that Abstraction as well as Impressionism were a Russian invention that had been discarded as unwanted by the people of the U.S.S.R.

Among the subjects discussed will be Russian restrictions on poets and writers in the USSR ( Channel 9 at 9:30 ).

A veteran diplomat with an extraordinary knowledge of Russian language, history and literature, Kennan recalls how, at the time of Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union in 1941, he penned a private note to a State Department official, expressing the hope that `` never would we associate ourselves with Russian purposes in the areas of eastern Europe beyond her own boundaries ''.

With justified bitterness the author speaks of `` what seems to me to have been an inexcusable body of ignorance about the nature of the Russian Communist movement, about the history of its diplomacy, about what had happened in the purges, and about what had been going on in Poland and the Baltic States ''.

With three fine Russian films in recent months on World War 2, -- `` The House I Live In '', `` The Cranes Are Flying '' and `` Ballad Of A Soldier '' -- we had every right to expect a real Soviet block-buster in `` The Day The War Ended ''.

The Russian abacus, the schoty ( счёты ), usually has a single slanted deck, with ten beads on each wire ( except one wire which has four beads, for quarter-ruble fractions.

Van Vogt was born on a farm in Edenburg, a Russian Mennonite community east of Gretna, Manitoba, Canada.

* 1377 – Russian troops are defeated in the Battle on Pyana River because of drunkenness.

Disposal of waste by simply dumping it at the shoreline such as here at the Russian Bellingshausen Island | Bellingshausen base is no longer permitted by the Protocol on Environmental Protection

The highest grade amethyst ( called " Deep Russian ") is exceptionally rare and therefore, when one is found, its value is dependent on the demand of collectors.

A total of 83 North Kuril Ainu arrived in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on September 18, 1877 after they decided to remain under Russian rule.

* 1912 – Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.

The 1000-page autobiographical manuscript Récoltes et semailles ( 1986 ) is now available on the internet in the French original, and an English translation is underway ( these parts of Récoltes et semailles have already been translated into Russian and published in Moscow ).

* Russian Americans-Russian cuisine, with particular impact on Midwest

* 1242 – During a battle on the ice of Lake Peipus, Russian forces, led by Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.