The Sveaborg Rebellion was a rebellion

Rebellion

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 which started June 30, 1906 on the sea fortress Suomenlinna

Suomenlinna

Suomenlinna, until 1918 Viapori , or Sveaborg , is an inhabited sea fortress built on six islands , and which now forms part of the city of Helsinki, the capital of Finland.Suomenlinna is a UNESCO World Heritage site and popular with both tourists and locals, who...

 (Sveaborg in Swedish and Russian) as part of the Russian Revolution of 1905

Russian Revolution of 1905

The 1905 Russian Revolution was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire. Some of it was directed against the government, while some was undirected. It included worker strikes, peasant unrest, and military mutinies...

–1907.

The rebellion began when Suomenlinna's Russia

Russia

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n soldiers started a mutiny against the bad treatment of soldiers and against officers. The rebellion was also a protest against the loss at the Russo-Japanese War

Russo-Japanese War

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. The rebels believed that by rebelling, they would get support from other rebellions, but they didn't and the rebellion ended in 60 hours.

Start of the rebellion

The rebels' first target was to attack Kronstadt

Kronstadt

Kronstadt , also spelled Kronshtadt, Cronstadt |crown]]" and Stadt for "city"); is a municipal town in Kronshtadtsky District of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia, located on Kotlin Island, west of Saint Petersburg proper near the head of the Gulf of Finland. Population: It is also...

, and from there to attack Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

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 and to depose the tsar

Tsar

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. The next day, rebels captured Katajanokka

Katajanokka

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 in Helsinki

Helsinki

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. The Finnish

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 Red Guards

Red Guards (Finland)

The Red Guards formed the army of Red Finland during the Finnish Civil War in 1918. The combined strength of the Red Guard was about 30,000 at the beginning of the Civil War, and peaked at 90,000-120,000 during the course of the conflict....

 leader Johan Kock

Johan Kock

Captain Johan Kock was a Finnish soldier who had been decommissioned from the Finnish army in Viipuri in 1897. Kock was a revolutionary who was the leader of the Finnish Red Guards from 1905 to 1906.-Biography:...

 declared a general strike which supported the rebels. Ships of the Russian Baltic Fleet

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 attacked Suomenlinna on August 1.

The next day, the rebels surrendered without reservation. Among them were 100 Finnish Red Guards. During the rebellion a bloody riot started in Hakaniemi

Hakaniemi

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, where Russian sailors and the Finnish White movement struck against each other. Dozens of people died.

Among the Russian prisoners were also Red Guards. The Red Guards leader Johan Kock fled the country among help with other activists to Sweden

Sweden

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 and from there to England

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 and later he moved to the United States

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