Hauling ore tubs to the blast furnaces of the Makayevka Works before the October Revolution. 'In 1905, when the workers of St Petersburg, Moscow and Katarinoslav went on strike and erected barricades in the streets, the workers of Makayevka also came out on strike. The management called out the Cossacks, and the strike was suppressed with the usual brutality. Supplied By: SCRSS - Society for Co-operation in Russian & Soviet Studies