Assembly of Russian Factory and Mill Workers of St. Petersburg
상트페테르부르크 러시아 공장노동자회
One of the first mass legal workers' organizations in Russia, led by priest Georgy Gapon and officially approved in February 1904. It succeeded a Zubatov police-sponsored society but was formally independent of the police, and by early 1905 it had around 10,000 members with 11 district branches, wielding substantial influence among St. Petersburg workers. In January 1905 the Putilov factory strike became its casus belli: the Assembly drafted the workers' petition and organized the march to the Winter Palace; it was banned immediately after Bloody Sunday, briefly revived after the October Manifesto, and finally closed in 1906.
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- Wikipedia (RU) full article on founding, charter, structure, 11 branches, role in January 1905 strike and Bloody Sunday, closing and revival
- britannica.com confirms Assembly of Russian Workingmen as the legal workers' organization that planned the January 1905 strikes and arranged the mass demonstration leading to Bloody Sunday
- hrono.ru Gapon's own memoir История моей жизни, Chapter 9 dedicated to the Assembly