Red Square (Krasnaya ploshchad): Difference between revisions
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[[File:Krasnaya ploshchad-Artillery-2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Horse-drawn 3-inch guns on snow-covered road are seen through the binoculars. Note the long barrel that allows to differ these guns from original M1902 guns with L/30 barrels.]]
[[File:Krasnaya ploshchad-Artillery-2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Horse-drawn 3-inch guns on snow-covered road are seen through the binoculars. Note the long barrel that allows to differ these guns from original M1902 guns with L/30 barrels.]]
[[File:Krasnaya ploshchad-Artillery-3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Two 3-inch guns are seen.]]
[[File:Krasnaya ploshchad-Artillery-3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Two 3-inch guns are seen.]]
An original 3-inch M1902 gun is also seen.
An original 3-inch M1902 (or M1902/30 with L/30 barrel) gun is also seen.
[[File:Putilov76mm.jpg|thumb|none|400px|M1902 Field Gun - 76.2x385mm R]]
Red Square (Krasnaya ploshchad; full title Red Square. Two Stories About Workers' and Peasants' Army) is a Soviet 1970 two-part historical moive directed by Vasili Ordynsky. The movie is in 1917-1919 during the Russian revolution and civil war. The main characters are Commissar Dmitriy Sergeevich Amelin (Stanislav Lyubshin) and Russian Army Podporuchik (Jr. Lt.) Nikolay Pavlovich Kutasov (Vyacheslav Shalevich) who later becomes the division commander in Red Army.
The following weapons were used in the film Red Square (Krasnaya ploshchad):
Soldiers of a grenadier regiment of Russian Army (in 1918) and of Red Army (in 1919) are armed with Mosin Nagant M1891/30 rifles, standing for original M91s.
Anachronistic Karabiner 98k rifles are seen among the weapons, captured from Imperial German troops.
Machine Guns
Maxim M1910
Maxim M1910 machine guns are used by Red soldiers throughout the movie.
Maxim M1910/30
Anachronistic Maxim M1910/30 machine guns are seen in the scenes of 1919, used by Red Army soldiers and also mounted on armoured train and armoured cars.
AKM assault rifles are seen in hands of Soviet infantry in the documentary footage of the military parage in honor of the October Revolution on Red Square in Moscow.
AKMS
In the same documentary footage Soviet paratroopers march with AKMS assault rifles.
Trivia
Pistol Holsters
Artillery
In one scene in Winter 1917-18 German troops are seen using Soviet 76.2mm M1902/30 L/40 field guns.
An original 3-inch M1902 (or M1902/30 with L/30 barrel) gun is also seen.
In the scene, set in 1919, Red troops use anachronistic 76.2mm ZiS-3 field guns.
Armoured Cars
Modern replicas of Austin Armoured Cars are seen in several scenes.
Armoured Train
Red Army armoured train Krasny Varyag under the command of Koltsov (Sergey Nikonenko) plays a significant role in the second part of the movie, during the events in 1919. The train was specially build for filming, but it is based on WW2 era Soviet armoured trains, hence its construction and armament are partially out of time. Main guns of the train are two 76.2mm ZiS-3 guns that have muzzle breaks removed to look more like WW1 patterns. One of them is mounted in a turret and the second on open shield mount.