Women Matros in 1917.
“Recently, the first pioneers appeared-women-soldiers who made up shock battalions and with honor that came out of the tests on the bloody field of war. Now the first detachment of female matros has formed, voluntarily agreed to take the entire weight of the marine service on their shoulders. The first detachment, or a team of female matros, has about a hundred girls and women undergoing a course of teaching at a marine rifle school in Oranienbaum.
In the first picture – representatives of the team. On the second, the senior company delegate of the team was removed – EM Skvortsova.
In the third picture, the sailors are busy with washing floors in the barracks, which is completely different in the sense of cleanliness and order to our ordinary barracks.
The fourth and fifth photographs were shot during combat and gymnastic classes. On the sixth – lunch in the barracks.
In the near future, after passing the combat training course, the team goes to Murman to carry out a guide service.
In our Far North, a guide service especially needs employees. Without distracting the strength from the current fleet, by this, the female mattrats will serve on the distant outskirts of a great service to the Motherland ”
“ВЧК ОГПУ”
