The Ilanskaya railway station is an important station on the Trans Siberian Railway that serves the town Ilansky,

Ilansky District Ilansky District (russian: Ила́нский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #10-4765 and municipalLaw #13-2898 district (raion), one of the forty-three in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the krai and borders wit ...

Krasnoyarsk Krai Krasnoyarsk Krai ( rus, Красноя́рский край, r=Krasnoyarskiy kray, p=krəsnɐˈjarskʲɪj ˈkraj) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai), with its administrative center in the city of Krasnoyarsk, the third-largest city in Siber ...

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. The station was opened in 1894 about 5 kilometres from Ilansky, but a separate settlement developed around the station. During the

1905 Revolution The Russian Revolution of 1905,. also known as the First Russian Revolution,. occurred on 22 January 1905, and was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire. The mass unrest was directed again ...

, railway workers based at Ilanskaya railway station played a major role in challenging the tsarist regime. General

Alexander Meller-Zakomelsky Alexander Nikolayevich Meller-Zakomelsky (russian: Александр Николаевич Меллер-Закомельский; german: Alexander Nikolajewitsch Möller-Sakomelski; , in St. Petersburg — 15 April 1928, in Nice) was a Russian ...

described it as a "nest of revolutionaries". On 12 January 1906, a detachment of troops he sent to suppress a demonstration at the station killed 17 people, with a further 22 injured and 73 participants of the gathering were arrested. In 1908

Vladimir Vilensky-Sibiryakov Vladimir Dmitrievich Vilensky-Sibiryakov (russian: Влади́мир Дми́триевич Виле́нский-Сибиряко́в; 8 July 1888 – 2 July 1942) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and political activist involved in the Russi ...

was arrested for distributing revolutionary literature to railway workers at the station.

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