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3rd Army (RSFSR)
The 3rd Army was a field army of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. The 3rd Army was formed three times. History First formation The 3rd Army was created in February 1918 to fight against the Romanian military intervention in Bessarabia. It was formed in Odessa and other places in the Odessa Soviet Republic. It consisted of separate revolutionary squads, mainly Bolshevik, Leftist and Anarchist, as well as small parts of the old Russian army, which had fought in World War I on the Romanian Front. In the middle of February the Army was reinforced by 3,000 men of the Krasnogvardeysky detachment under command of Mikhail Muravjev, which arrived from Kiev. Until March 1918 the Army was named the Special Revolutionary Army of the Odessa District, or Special Odessa Army. The Army took up positions on the left bank of the Dniester with headquarters in Tiraspol and as commander P. S. Lazarov. Grigory Kotovsky was commander of the Cavalry. The army was part of the armed forces of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The army was established in January 1918. The Bolsheviks raised an army to oppose the military confederations (especially the various groups collectively known as the White Army) of their adversaries during the Russian Civil War. Starting in February 1946, the Red Army, along with the Soviet Navy, embodied the main component of the Soviet Armed Forces; taking the official name of "Soviet Army", until its dissolution in 1991. The Red Army provided the largest land force in the Allied victory in the European theatre of World War II, and its invasion of Manchuria assisted the unconditional surrender of Imperial Japan. During operations on the Eastern Front, it accounted for 75–80% of casual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1st Army (RSFSR)
The 1st Army was a field army of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. The 1st Army was formed twice. The first formation was between the beginning of March 1918 and May as a reaction to the Austro-German occupation of Ukraine. The second formation was created on June 19, 1918, as a part of the Eastern Front and from August 15, 1919 as a part of the Turkestan Front. The Army was disbanded in January 1921. History On March 17, 1918, the Second All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets decided to create armed forces to counter foreign and contra-revolutionary forces. Five armies of some 3.000 -3.500 men were created. In fact, these armies were only brigades with limited combat capabilities. Asiyev became the commander of the 1st Army, which was stationed near Podilsk and counted some 30.000 men shortly before it was disbanded. In March 1918, there were some skirmishes with German troops near Odessa, but the army was forced to retreat to Taganrog and Rostov-on-Don. On June 19, 191 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
15th Army (RSFSR)
The 15th Army was a field army of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War and Polish-Soviet War, which existed between 7 June 1919 and 26 December 1920. History The 15th Army was formed on 7 June 1919 by transformation of the Army of Soviet Latvia which existed since 4 January 1919. The Army of Soviet Latvia was operationally subordinated to the command of the Northern Front , and on 19 February 1919, became part of the newly formed Western Front. The army headquarters was stationed in Daugavpils. The 15th Army conducted in July 1919 defensive battles against Estonian troops and withdrew under the onslaught of enemy forces from the territory of Latvia, except Latgale. In August 1919 the 15th Army conducted the Pskov operation and liberated Pskov. In September-October 1919, she defended Petrograd against the forces of Nikolai Yudenich, and led in October-November a counter-offensive towards Luga, Volosovo, Gdov and Yamburg, thus participating in the defeat of Yudenich's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Front (RSFSR)
The Western Front () was a front of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War and Polish-Soviet War, which existed between February 12, 1919 and April 8, 1924. The Western Front was first established on the basis of the administration of the disbanded Northern Front. The Front headquarters were located consequently in Staraya Russa, Molodechno, Dvinsk, Smolensk and Minsk . Operations At the time of the formation of the Western Front, Soviet troops were fighting on a front some 2,000 km long, stretching from Murmansk (against the White Northern Army and the Entente interventionists), over the Karelian Isthmus (against Finland), and the Baltics to the Belorussian Front (against Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian formations and Russian White Guards, supported by German and Polish troops). By July 1919, the Soviet Armies of the Western Front had retreated from the Baltic area under the onslaught of the enemy. In Belarus, the Polish offensive was stopped in August on the Berezi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labor Army
The notion of the Labor army (трудовая армия, трудармия) was introduced in Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Russia during the Russian Civil War in 1920. Initially the term was applied to regiments of Red Army transferred from military activity to labor activity, such as logging, coal mining, Wood fuel, firewood stocking, etc. History The first labor army (1я Трудармия, 1-я армия труда) was created after the defeat of Aleksandr Kolchak, Kolchak on the base of the 3rd Army located in the Urals region by the initiative of the army commander Mikhail Matiyasevich (командарм Михаил Степанович Матиясевич). Leon Trotsky, acting as People's Commissar of Army and Fleet Affairs and Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic at this time, developed this idea further. He argued that the economic situation in the country required introduction of the universal labor duty. In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Counteroffensive Of The Eastern Front
The Eastern Front counteroffensive (April–July 1919) was an episode of the Russian Civil War. Background In 1917, the Russian Bolshevik Party staged a revolution against Alexander Kerensky's Provisional Government that led to a civil war. During the spring of 1919 the Kolchak army offensive created a strategic breakthrough in the center of The Red Army's Eastern Font, while the Reds were preparing their own offensive on the southern flank. Idea At the time of the White Army offensive, the Reds had a big force on the southern flank. The White army was dispersed in several groups and the Reds attempted to crush those groups from south to north one by one. Reserves were used to rebuild the Red's 5th Army and delay the Whites' advancement in the center of the front. Battles On the southern flank, the White Orenburg Independent Army tried to capture Orenburg without success. New commander General Petr Belov decided to use his reserve, the 4th Corps, to outflank Orenburg fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vyatka River
The Vyatka (; rus, Вя́тка, p=ˈvʲatkə; tt-Cyrl, Нократ, translit=Noqrat; chm, Виче, Viče; udm, Ватка, Vatka) is a river in Kirov Oblast and the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia, a right tributary of the Kama. It is long, and its covers .«Река Вятка» Russian State Water Registry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perm Operation (1918–19)
The Perm Operation (November 1918 – January 1919) was a military operation during the Russian Civil War. Background At the end of 1918, the situation on the Eastern Front of the Russian Civil War was unclear. The forces of the Eastern White Movement tried to advance in two directions simultaneously: on the one hand towards the North-West to connect with the Northern Russia Front, on the other hand towards the South-West to connect with the Southern Russia Front and the troops of Anton Denikin and Pyotr Wrangel. The Red Army considered the Southwestern advance of the White Army as the main threat, and concentrated its main forces in the Southern Ural region. Offensive of Siberian Army On 29 November the 1st Middle Siberian Corps of the Siberian Army, led by Anatoly Pepelyayev, began its advance towards the North-West. On 21 December the Siberian Army captured Kungur, and on 24 December Perm Perm or PERM may refer to: Places *Perm, Russia, a city in Russia ** Permsky Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czechoslovak Legion
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Ishim, Tyumen Oblast
Ishim (russian: Иши́м) is a town in the south of Tyumen Oblast, Russia. Population: It was previously known as ''Korkina Sloboda'' (until 1782). History It was founded in 1670 as the village of Korkina Sloboda. In 1721, by the order of Tsar Peter the Great the village gained the right to establish Nikolskaya Trade Fair which rapidly became one of the most important trade fairs in Siberia. This trade fair took place twice a year on the Saint Nicholas day (19 December and 22 May) until 1919. In 1782, by the order of Empress Catherine the Great, Korkina Sloboda was renamed Ishim and was granted town status. In 1918, Ishim became the administrative center of Ishimsky Uyezd. In 1921-1922 Ishim was the center of the West Siberian rebellion. In 1984, the city began a sister city relationship with Grand Forks, North Dakota in the United States. This relationship terminated in the late 1990s due to economic turmoil in Ishim. In 2017 Ishim began a sister relationship with Suroviki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liski, Voronezh Oblast
Liski (russian: Ли́ски) is a town and the administrative center of Liskinsky District in Voronezh Oblast, Russia. Population: History Liski was founded as Novaya Pokrovka () in 1571 and renamed Svoboda () in 1943, and after a period again as Liski. It was renamed Georgiu-Dezh () in 1965 for the Romanian communist leader, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, before returning to Liski again in 1990.''Post-Soviet Geography, Volumul 34'', V.H. Winston & Son, 1993, p. 648''The Current Digest of the Soviet Press, Volume 43, Issues 1-16'', American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1991, p. 31''The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Micropaedia (10 v.)'', Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1983, p. 490Lewis H. Siegelbaum, ''Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile'', Cornell University Press, 2008, p. 82 Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, Liski serves as the administrative center of Liskinsky District.Law #87-OZ As an ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lozova
Lozova ( uk, Лозова́, ) or Lozovaya (russian: Лозова́я) is a city in Kharkiv Oblast (province) of eastern Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of the Lozova Raion (district). Lozova hosts the administration of Lozova urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: Lozova is the 2nd largest city in Kharkiv Oblast after Kharkiv in terms of population. History Lozova was founded in the late 1860s as a settlement in Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire.Лозовая // Большая Советская Энциклопедия. / под ред. А. М. Прохорова. 3-е изд. том 14. М., «Советская энциклопедия», 1973.Лозовая // Большая Российская Энциклопедия / редколл., гл. ред. Ю. С. Осипов. том 17. М., научное издательство "Большая Российская Энциклопедия", 2011. стр.756 During the Russia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
