Armed Forces of Southern Russia
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The Armed Forces of Southern Russia , also Armed Forces of Southern Russia ( Russian Вооружённые си́лы Ю́га Росси́и Wooruschjonnyje sily Yuga Rossii ), was the operational-strategic association of the white troops of Southern Russia from 1919 to 1920 during the Russian Civil War . They formed the armed forces of the short-lived state of Southern Russia .
They were founded on January 8, 1919 as a result of the union of the Volunteer Army and the Grand Army of the Don for the common struggle against the Bolsheviks. The Cossack generals of the Great Army of the Don initially resisted submission to General Anton I. Denikin , but in connection with the withdrawal of the German armies, whose support they enjoyed and the continued attack of the Red Army , they had to face Denikin under conditions of lack of sufficient combat troops Subject to preservation of autonomy.
The maximum number of armed forces in southern Russia reached 270,000 men, 600 artillery pieces, 38 tanks, 72 aircraft, about 120 ships (according to other data, about 160,000 men in July 1919).
From January to December 1919, the commander in chief of the armed forces of Southern Russia, General Denikin, was in Taganrog .
After the breakdown of the units in the Caucasus foreland, the volunteer army continued to exist in Ukraine from May 22, 1919 to March 26 and 27, 1920, the remaining troops were evacuated from Novorossiysk to the Crimea. Most then joined Pyotr N. Wrangel's armed forces there.
At the beginning of April 1920, Anton Denikin, commander in chief of the armed forces of South Russia, transferred all powers to Wrangel, who took over command of the so-called "Russian Army" or Russian Wrangel Army in the Crimea.
literature
- Н.Е.Какурин, И.И.Вацетис "Гражданская война. 1918-1921" (NEKakurin, IIVacietis "Civil War. 1918-1921") - Sankt-Peterburg, "Polygon" Publishing House, 2002. 5-89173-150 -9