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Kalashnikov (both members of SR Party). However, there also were many independent underground military organizations with experienced officers as members. Hence, SR members quickly became driven into underground organizations. In western Siberia the main person became Col. Aleksey Grishin-Almazov, in
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As it happened, the Duma could not open on the date the congress had set for it due to lack of a quorum requiring that a minimum of one-third of the delegates, or 93, be present. Many of the delegates had already been arrested by local Bolshevik authorities; others had not been able to reach Tomsk.
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It was clearly apparent that by the summer of 1918 the main military force in the eastern part of Russia was the Czechoslovak Legion. During the meeting in Chelyabinsk, which took place on July 13, 1918, it was decided that before the appointment of the Chief of all allied forces in Russia the
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and Novonikolaevsk. On May 28 A. Grishin-Almazov came to Novonikolaevsk and proclaimed himself commander of all troops in the Western Siberian Military District. At that time most members of PGAS (including Derber and Krakovetsky) were in
831: 490:, Boldyrev was forced to emigrate. In December 1918 Kolchak dissolved the old Siberian Army and created a new one on the base of the Ekaterinburg Group (included the 1st and 3rd Corps of the Siberian Army and some other troops) with 288: 1200: 715: 956: 944: 932: 257:) to the Staff of the Western Siberian Independent Army. Members of the Staff were officers of the old Russian Imperial Army, so there was no longer any influence of the deposed Socialist-Revolutionary Party. 1032: 708: 1210: 559:. After several crushing defeats at the hands of the resurgent Red Army, the Eastern front largely collapsed, and dissolved by November 1919. The last troops of the Siberian Army retreated to the 1205: 701: 409:
Siberian troops on the front line would be placed under the command of the head of the Czechoslovak Legion, Maj. Gen. Vladimir Shokorov (he was an officer in the Russian Army during the
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from the Siberian Army became the new Minister of War and new head of the Siberian Army. Boldyrev reorganized all anti-Bolshevik forces in Eastern Russia into three fronts:
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By August 1918 the Siberian Army had three corps of 2 or 3 four-regimental divisions each (23,147 infantrymen, 14,888 cavalrymen and 22,224 unarmed volunteers).
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At first the Siberian Army was a volunteer one, but it soon became obvious that in order to create a real army it was necessary to organize a program of
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Three weeks later, on the night of January 28–29, some 40 delegates finally succeeded in meeting. They expeditiously elected a government known as the
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After the Bolsheviks' seizure of power in Petrograd, the All-Siberian Extraordinary Congress of Delegates from Public Organizations was convened in
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On June 12, 1918, Grishin-Almazov ordered the renaming of the Staff of the Western Siberian Military District (located in
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The crew of a Siberian armored train relax during a stop in the summer of 1919. Propaganda photo of Kolchak's army
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as the head of the Czechoslovak Legion, tensions began to develop between the Russians and the Czechoslovaks.
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2nd Steppe Siberian Corps, reorganized from the Siberian Front, with Gen. Brzhezovsky as its commander.
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On June 13, 1918, all troops under the command of Grichin-Almazov were concentrated into two corps:
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Headquarters of the Siberian Army, Yekaterinburg, February 1919. Seated from left to right :
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Eastern Siberia Col. A. Ellerts-Usov. To coordinate the efforts they created the Central Staff in
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in May 1918 radically changed the situation in Siberia. On May 25 legionaries captured
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Together with the 3d Army of Konstantin Sakharov, they formed an Eastern Front of the
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On June 30, 1918, the Western Siberian Commissariat transferred its power to the
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Ivanov-Rinov became commander-in-chief of the entire Siberian Front.
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as its commander. Three other independent forces were created.
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replaced Jan Syrový as head of all allied forces in Russia.
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Region and were incorporated into the Far East Army.
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direction under command of Konstantin Akintievskij).
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