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You might be right, these links suggest the bike were electric
https://centerlinerule.blogspot.com/2018/12/old-time-bikes-of-russian-military.html
https://picryl.com/media/sur-le-transsiberien-0e1b2a
I love how in every photo or illustration, anyone on this bike looks insanely proud and haughty.
But why would it need the big front wheel then?
This was standard bike design back then, all the cool officers have big front wheel