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from another direction. Using this opportunity, an underground officer organization began a rebellion within the city. By evening the city was encircled by Whites from three sides, and there was fighting inside the city. During the night part of red troops began to breakthrough to the east, in
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landed on the right bank, thereby blocking the river. At the same time two
Czechoslovak Battalions landed 5 km down-stream of Kazan and began to advance, but this was stopped by the Latvian Riflemen. Latvians were close to winning, but suddenly a Serbian battalion of Reds, defending the
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In the morning of August, 6, Kappel crossed the river and attacked Kazan from the north. The Reds moved their best troops (international brigades) to the north of the city, and the
Czechoslovaks used this moment to attack the ill-prepared
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At that time Kazan had 146.000 inhabitants. For the defence of Kazan Reds concentrated about 10 thousand men from all the region. The most effective of the defending troops were "international" detachments:
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634:; part of it was spent in buying munitions and other supplies abroad; part of it leaked out of the country in various ways when Kolchak fell; some of the gold was recovered by the Red troops."
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Czechoslovaks, together with River Fleet. Trophies are uncountable, we captured the Gold Reserves of Russia - 650 million. Losses of my detachment - 25 men, troops fought fine.
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again, but lost and retreated to Kazan. During that battle it became obvious that Red troops were ill-prepared and badly organized.
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direction, with another group escaping to the north, to the
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and on August 1, began to move north in the direction of
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598:After the capture of Kazan the entire
29:Eastern Front of the Russian Civil War
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41:Frontline near Kazan in August, 1918
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550:First Moslem Communist Battalion
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235:of the Russian Civil War
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532:. Reds tried to stop
506:People Army of Komuch
262:Siberian intervention
147:Mirsäyet Soltanğäliev
349:Sarapul and Votkinsk
287:Izhevsk and Votkinsk
510:Czechoslovak Legion
53:August 5 to 7, 1918
705:August 1918 events
443:Sorokino rebellion
433:Pitchfork uprising
720:Conflicts in 1918
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282:Syzran and Samara
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82:Belligerents
27:Part of the
666:N.E.Kakurin
620:People Army
526:Volga River
416:Krasnoyarsk
374:Chelyabinsk
195:about 3,300
689:Categories
579:Red Guards
560:The battle
530:Kama River
500:Background
489:White Army
458:Khabarovsk
339:Buguruslan
329:Chapan War
93:Red Guards
594:Aftermath
584:Sviyazhsk
468:2nd Yakut
297:Minusinsk
272:2nd Kazan
267:1st Kazan
247:1st Yakut
514:Simbirsk
453:Mongolia
364:Zlatoust
359:2nd Perm
317:Orenburg
302:1st Perm
277:Simbirsk
187:Strength
58:Location
638:Sources
632:Kolchak
548:), the
381:Tobolsk
344:Belebey
307:Sheksna
257:Barnaul
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616:Samara
534:Whites
463:Spassk
396:Bogdat
322:Uralsk
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70:Result
556:etc.
518:Kazan
482:Kazan
423:Chita
63:Kazan
674:ISBN
588:Arsk
522:Reds
485:was
406:Omsk
292:Arsk
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354:Ufa
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