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Aside from Lend-Lease materiel in Russia, which would have been provided in a more-friendly environment, the US was part of the Allied intervention in Russia during World War I. This was after the Russian government collapsed mid-war, and materiel that had been sent to the Russian government was at risk of being seized by the Bolsheviks. The aim was to secure that and to help evacuate the Czechoslovak Legion.
There were two small US military forces that entered Russia, one in the west and one in the east.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Expeditionary_Force,_North_Russia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Expeditionary_Force,_Siberia
It's also possible that some kind of military hardware might have been sold to Russia prior to World War I, though I'm not familiar with any particular item, and I'm not sure at what point American industry would have become competitive enough with Russian industry to make it worth it for Russia to obtain military hardware from the US; the early US would definitely have been behind Russia in military industry. Prior to the World War era, relations with Russia were generally warmer.
John Paul Jones wound up working for Russia, and I suppose perhaps some of his contemporaries might have as well, but I don't know if there was any kind of materiel moving.
Russia got a bunch of 1895 Winchester rifles for WW1. They're the only army ever to field lever action rifles to standard infantry.