Announcement of the dismissal of workers at the Putilov Factory following the 1905 Russian Revolution. Putilov Strike of February 1905 was a strike involving more than 12,000 workers at the Putilov metallurgical and machine-building factory in St. Petersburg (now the Leningrad Kirov Factory) during a revolutionary period in Russia. On January 7-8 the strike became a general one in which the city's industrial and commercial life was paralyzed. The Putilov workers helped write a petition to the tsar and took part in the peaceful march to the Winter Palace on Jan. 9, 1905. When the tsarist troops fired on the demonstrators, some 45 Putilov workers were killed and 61 were seriously wounded.