Nikolai Nikolayevich Yudenich (Николай Николаевич Юденич) (1862–1933), Infantry General (1915), leader of the counterrevolution in Northwestern Russia during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1920. 1862 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... General is a military rank, in most nations the highest rank, although some nations have the higher rank of Field Marshal. ... A counterrevolutionary is anyone who opposes a revolution, particularly those who act after a revolution to try to overturn or reverse it, in full or in part. ... The Russian Civil War was fought between 1918 and 1922. ...

He graduated from the Alexandrovsky Military College in 1881 and the General Staff Academy in 1887. Yudenich commanded a regiment during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905. He was appointed Chief of Staff of the Kazan (1912) and Caucasus (1913) military districts. In the beginning of the World War I of 1914–1918 Yudenich was appointed Chief of Staff of the Caucasus army and in that position he won the battle of Sarikamis. In January 1915 was appointed its commander. He successfully carried out an offensive winning the battles of Erzurum, Trapezund (today's Trabzon), and Erzincan in 1916. After he had been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Kavkaz front in March–April of 1917, he retired. A regiment is a military unit, larger than a company and smaller than a division. ... Greater Manchuria, Russian (outer) Manchuria is region to upper right in lighter Red; Liaodong Peninsula is the wedge extending into the Yellow Sea The Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) was an extremely bloody conflict that grew out of the rival imperialist ambitions of Imperial Russia and Japan in Manchuria and... The term Chief of Staff can refer to: The White House Chief of Staff, the highest-ranking member of the Executive Office of the President of the United States. ... For the Japanese emperor, see Emperor Kazan of Japan. ... The Caucasus , a region boardering Asia Minor, is located between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea which includes the Caucasus mountains and surrounding lowlands. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Commander is a military rank used in many navies but not generally in armies or air forces. ... The Battle of Erzurum was a decisive Russian victory over the Turks along the Caucasus Front during World War I. Backgound Russia had won significant battles at Sarikamis and Kara Killisse but lacked the resources to exploit their victories. ... Trabzon, formerly known as Trebizond or Τραπεζούντα (Trapezounda) (Greek) , is a city on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey. ... Commander-in-Chief (in NATO-lingo often C-in-C or CINC pronounced sink) is the commander of all the military forces within a particular region or of all the military forces of a state. ...

A year after the October Revolution of 1917, Yudenich emigrated to France and then Estonia. In July of 1919 he was appointed head of the Northwestern White Army, which was advancing towards Petrograd (October–November, 1919). At the same time he became a member of the counterrevolutionary Northwestern "government", created with the help of Great Britain. The October Revolution, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, was the second phase of the Russian Revolution, the first having been instigated by the events around the February Revolution. ... White army may refer to: The military arm of the White movement, a loose coalition of anti-Bolshevik forces in the Russian Civil War The Saudi Arabian National Guard The National Guard of Kuwait This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share... Saint Petersburg  listen (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of... A counterrevolutionary is anyone who opposes a revolution, particularly those who act after a revolution to try to overturn or reverse it, in full or in part. ...

After the failure of the Petrograd campaign, the remains of the Yudenich army retreated to Estonia. In 1920 Yudenich emigrated to Great Britain, where he never played any significant role among White Army émigrés.