Bezdany raid

Bezdany raid
Site of the Bezdany raid
Native name	Akcja pod Bezdanami
Date	September 26–27, 1908 (1908-09-26 – 1908-09-27)
Location	Bezdany, Vilna Governorate
Type	Train robbery
Motive	Extortion
Organised by	Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party
Participants	Tomasz Arciszewski Jan Balaga Bertold Brajtenbach Aleksander Damasty Jan Fijałkowski Edward Gibalski Bronisław Gorgol Aleksandra Hellman Włodzimierz Hellmann Józef Kobiałko Cezaryna Kozakiewiczówna Aleksander Lutze-Birk Kazimierz Młynarski Włodzimierz Momentowicz Józef Piłsudski Aleksander Prystor Janina Prystorowa Jerzy Sawicki Walery Sławek Aleksandra Szczerbińska Czesław Świrski
Outcome	Theft of ₽200,000
Deaths	1 Russian soldier
Non-fatal injuries	5 Russian soldiers

The Bezdany raid was a train robbery carried out on the night of 26/27 September 1908 in the vicinity of Bezdany (since 1946 Bezdonys) near Vilnius on a Russian Empire passenger and mail train by a group of the Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party led by Józef Piłsudski.