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2 unusual facts about White movement


No. 221 Squadron RAF

Initially engaged in anti-submarine warfare in the Aegean, it was sent to Russia in December 1918 to support White forces against the Bolsheviks.

Tolbo

The lake was the site of the Battle of Tolbo Lake (1921) during the Russian Civil War where Bolsheviks and Mongolian allies defeated an army of White Russians.


Aleksandr Vladimirovich Razvozov

He was arrested by the Cheka in September 1919 on suspicion of conspiracy with the White Russian forces of General Yudenich.

Ali Mitayev

In 1919 he forged an alliance with the Bolsheviks against Denikin’s White forces provided the Bolsheviks would guarantee Chechen autonomy and Muslim religious practices within a Soviet system.

Ittihad

The Ittihadists' vehement opposition to Musavat, which formed the minority government in Azerbaijan in 1918–1920, led to their collaboration with the White Russians under Anton Denikin.

Ivan Ilyin

He became the main ideologue of the Russian White movement in emigration and between 1927 and 1930 was a publisher and editor of the Russian-language journal Kolokol (Bell).

James Ira Thomas Jones

After the end of hostilities, Jones volunteered to fight with the White movement against the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War and was posted to the Archangel front but saw no further air combat.

Miles of Fire

The White Guard Army led by General Anton Denikin are laying siege to a southern city in order to prevent a rebellion.

Newton A. McCully

He returned there as a Rear Admiral, leading a small intelligence mission, to join the Whites and report on the strength of the Bolsheviks and their potential threat.

Nikolai Kolomeitsev

In 1918, he joined the White movement Volunteer Army and the Armed Forces of South Russia and assigned command of the anti-Bolshevik naval forces in the Baltic Sea.

Occupation of Mongolia

The Occupation of Mongolia by the Beiyang Government of the Republic of China began in October 1919 and lasted until early 1921, when Chinese troops in Urga were routed by Baron Ungern's White Russian (Buryats, Russians and Japanese etc.) and Mongolian forces.

Russian All-Military Union

This organization united all veterans of the Russian White movement, soldiers and officers alike, who were living abroad and desired to stay united for the purpose of purging Russia of the Bolshevik regime.

Shōjirō Iida

He participated in the Japanese Expeditionary force for the Siberian Intervention against the forces of the Bolshevik Army against White Russian forces in Russia.

Vasily Chapayev

On September 5, 1919, the divisional headquarters near Lbishchensk (now renamed Chapayev in his honour) were ambushed by White Army forces.

Vladimir K. Zworykin

He returned to Omsk, then capital of Admiral Kolchak's government in 1919, via Vladivostok, then to the United States again on official duties from the Omsk government.


see also

Eugene Miller

Yevgeny Miller (1867–1939), Russian general, leader of White movement during Russian Civil War

Krasnov

Pyotr Krasnov (1869-1947) Lieutenant-general and leading member of the White movement during the Russian Civil War.

Nikolai Baratov

In June 1919, General Denikin, leader of the anti-Soviet Volunteer Army and the Armed Forces of South Russia, sent Baratov to settle uneasy relations with Democratic Republic of Georgia, with the promise of security to Georgia's northern borders in reward for free passage of White Movement forces through Georgia.

White Guard

The White Guard, a 1966 novel by Mikhail Bulgakov about the Russian White movement