On the eve of the February Revolution , Novocherkassk had a population of about sixty thousand people , about twenty-five thousand of which were serving Cossacks and their families , three thousand were noblemen , and about five-hundred were clergymen . Novocherkassk , unlike many Russian cities at the time , had almost no permanent merchants or peasants . During the Russian Civil War from 1917 to 1922 , Novocherkassk was the center of the Don Army counter-revolution and came under the command of General Alexey Kaledin . The Red Army eventually defeated ousted the White-aligned Don Army from Novocherkassk on January 7 , 1920 . During World War II , the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany occupied Novocherkassk between July 24 , 1942 and February 13 , 1943 . On June 1-2 , 1962 , events known as the Novocherkassk massacre occurred when food riots and workers rights protests broke out following a labor strike at the locomotive factory , the Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant , in the city . The protests were brutally suppressed by troops of the Soviet Army , resulting in 26 protesters being killed and 87 being wounded
Novocherkassk massacre
Novocherkassk massacre
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