Soviet locomotive class FD

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The Soviet locomotive class FD was a Soviet main freight steam locomotive type named after Felix Dzerzhinsky. Between 1932 and 1942, 3213 FD series locomotives were built.

Scale Model of Russian Class FD locomotive number FD20-2865 at the Museum of the Moscow Railway at Paveletsky Rail Terminal

Russian locomotive class FD 21-3125 at Moscow Railway Museum at Rizhsky Rail Terminal

Russian locomotive class FD-1103 (on the left of the photo) at the Russian Railway Museum, St. Petersburg

Felix Dzerzhinsky

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Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, nicknamed "Iron Felix", was a Bolshevik revolutionary and politician. From 1917 until his death in 1926, he led the first two Soviet secret police organizations, the Cheka and the OGPU, establishing state security organs for the post-revolutionary Soviet regime. He was one of the architects of the Red Terror and de-Cossackization.

Dzerzhinsky in 1918

Dzerzhinsky pictured with wife Sofia and son Janek in Lugano (Switzerland), October 1918

Dzerzhinsky in 1922

Dzerzhinsky, Vsevolod Balitsky and Stanislav Redens in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, 1926