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The notion of the Labor army (трудовая армия, трудармия) was introduced in Soviet Russia during the Russian Civil War in 1920. Initially the term was applied to regiments of Red Army transferred from military activity to labor activity, such as logging, coal mining, firewood stocking, etc.[1]
- ^ Цысь В. В. Трудовые армии периода Гражданской войны — Нижневартовск, 2009.