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First Machine Gun Regiment

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Russian Revolution of 1917 📍 Rusland

First Machine Gun Regiment

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Machine-gunners refuse unconditional deployment

📅 4 Juli 1917

The First Machine Gun Regiment declared that it would not send detachments to the front unless the war served revolutionary aims. The source date is 6/21/1917 Old Style.

The First Machine Gun Regiment enters Petrograd

📅 14 Juli 1917

Armed machine-gunners arrived from Oranienbaum and rejected Soviet Executive Committee instructions to return. The source date is 7/1/1917 Old Style.

The July Days begin

📅 16 Juli 1917

Machine-gunners and other soldiers decided to demonstrate against the Provisional Government, demanding transfer of power to the soviets. The source date is 7/3/1917 Old Style.