The Volunteer Army (Добровольческая армия in Russian, or Dobrovolcheskaya armiya) was a counterrevolutionary army in South Russia during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1920. 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. ... 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ...

The Volunteer Army (VA) began forming in November-December of 1917 by General Mikhail Alekseev in Novocherkassk and General Lavr Kornilov and his supporters. Initially, the VA included volunteering officers, cadets, students and Cossacks. On December 27, 1917 (January 9, 1918), the creation of the VA was officially announced. Alekseev became its overall leader, Kornilov - its Commander-in-chief, General Alexander Lukomsky - its Chief of Staff, General Anton Denikin - commander of the 1st Division. They also created the so called Special Council at the headquarters, which included of Peter Struve, M.Fedorov, A.Khripunov, G.Trubetskoy and Boris Savinkov. For other uses, see November (disambiguation). ... December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1917 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. ... General is a military rank used by nearly every country in the world. ... 07:55, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC) Categories: Possible copyright violations ... Roads leading to Novocherkassk are graced by triumphal arches, erected to commemorate the Cossack victory over Napoleon. ... Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov (Russian: Лавр Георгиевич Корнилов) (1870-1918) was a Russian army general best known for the Kornilov Affair, an unsuccessful military coup he staged against Kerenskys Provisional Government during the 1917 Russian Revolution. ... This article refers to the general definition of cadet. ... This article needs cleanup. ... December 27 is the 361st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1917 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. ... January 9 is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov (Russian: Лавр Георгиевич Корнилов) (1870-1918) was a Russian army general best known for the Kornilov Affair, an unsuccessful military coup he staged against Kerenskys Provisional Government during the 1917 Russian Revolution. ... 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. ... 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. ... Anton Denikin on the day of his resignation in 1920 Anton Ivanovich Denikin (Анто́н Ива́нович Дени́кин) (December 16, 1872 - August 8, 1947) was a Russian army officer before and during World War I. Following the Russian Revolution he was part of the counter-revolutionary White Russian forces in the civil... A division is a large military unit or formation usually consisting of around ten to fifteen thousand soldiers. ... Headquarters denotes the location where most, if not all, of the important functions of an organization are concentrated. ... Peter Bergardovich Struve (1870 - 1944) was a Russian political economist and Marxist. ... Boris Viktorovich Savinkov (1879-1925), a famous writer and terrorist, one of the leaders of the Fighting Organisation of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, was responsible for the most spectacular assassinations of imperial officials in 1904 and 1905. ...

In the early January of 1918, the VA numbered approximately 4,000 men and fought against the Red Army together with the units of General Kaledin. In the late February, the VA had to retreat from Rostov due to the onset of the Red Army and left for Kuban in order to unite with the Kuban Cossack counterrevolution. However, most of the Kuban Cossacks did not grant their support to the VA. Only a small unit (3,000 men) under the command of General V.Pokrovsky joined the VA on March 26, 1918, increasing its number to 6,000 people. The VA's attempt to capture Yekaterinodar between April 9 and April 13 was a fiasco, costing Kornilov his life. General Denikin took the command over the remnants of the VA and left for the remote stanitsas beyond the Don region. In June of 1918, 3,000 men of Colonel M.Drozdovsky joined the VA. On June 23, the VA (8,000-9,000 men) began its so called Second Kuban Campaign with the support from Pyotr Krasnov. By September of 1918, the VA had already had 30,000-35,000 men thanks to mobilization of the Kuban Cossacks and "counterrevolutionary elements", gathered in North Caucasus. Thus, the VA took the name of the Caucasus Volunteer Army. January is the first month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... Red Army flag The short forms Red Army and RKKA refer to the Workers and Peasants Red Army, (Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия - Raboche-Krestyanskaya Krasnaya Armiya in Russian), the armed forces organised by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918. ... Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin (Каледин, Алексей Максимович in Russian) (10. ... February is the second month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Rostov Kremlin in summer (1911). ... Kuban may refer to Kuban River, Russia. ... 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. ... Russian Kuban Cossacks (Кубанские козака, Kubanskie Kozaki) were cossacks that settled in the region around the Kuban River protected the southern borders of the Russian Empire. ... March 26 is the 85th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (86th in leap years). ... Krasnodar (Russian, Краснодар) is a city in Southern Russia on the Kuban River, and is the administrative center of Krasnodar Krai (Krasnodar region, also known as Kuban, Russian Кубань). ... April 9 is the 99th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (100th in leap years). ... April 13 is the 103rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (104th in leap years). ... A fiasco (pl. ... Rivers Don River, Russia, one of the main rivers of Russia. ... June is the sixth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four with the length of 30 days. ... Colonel is both a military rank and civilian title, used by nearly every country in the world. ... June 23 is the 174th day of the year (175th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 191 days remaining. ... There are several common types of campaign: For organized efforts, each toward specific political goals, see political campaign. ... Ataman Pyotr Krasnov Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov (Петр Николаевич Краснов in Russian) (September 22 (10 O.S.), 1869 — January 17, 1947), sometimes referred to in English as Peter Krasnov, was Lieutenant General of the Russian army when the revolution broke out in 1917, and one of the leaders of the counterrevolutionary White movement afterwards. ... September is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with the length of 30 days. ... Mobilization (or mobilisation in British English) is the act of assembling and making both troops and supplies ready for war. ... The Caucasus , a region bordering Asia Minor, is located between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea which includes the Caucasus mountains and surrounding lowlands. ...

In the fall of 1918, the governments of Great Britain, France and the USA increased their material and technical assistance to the VA. With the support from Entente, the forces of the South Russian counterrevolution were combined into the so called Armed Forces of South Russia (Вооружённые силы Юга России, or Vooruzhenniye sily Yuga Rossii) under the command of Denikin. In the late 1918 - early 1919, Denikin managed to inflict a defeat on the 11th Soviet Army and capture the North Caucasus region. In January of 1919, the Caucasus Volunteer Army was divided into the Caucasus Army and the Volunteer Army, which would later be joined by the Don Army, created from the remnants of Krasnov's Cossack army. After capturing Donbass, Tsaritsyn and Kharkov in June of 1919, Denikin began to advance towards Moscow on June 20 (July 3). According to his plan, the main blow to Moscow was to be inflicted by the VA (40,000 men) under the command of General Vladimir May-Mayevsky. Autumn (fall in North America) is one of the four temperate seasons, the transition between summer and winter. ... Entente, meaning a diplomatic understanding, may refer to a number of agreements: The Entente Cordiale, 1904 between France and the United Kingdom. ... 1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Soviet redirects here. ... Categories: Stub | Regions of Ukraine | Ukrainian historical regions ... Rodina Mat (Motherland), statue on the Mamayev Kurgan, Volgograd Volgograd (Волгогра́д) (population: 1,012,000), formerly called Tsaritsyn (Цари́цын) (1598 - 1925) and Stalingrad (Сталингра́д) (1925 - 1961) is a city on the west bank of Volga river in southwestern Volgograd Oblast (province), Northern Caucasus district, Russia. ... Kharkov (rus: Ха́рьков) or Kharkiv (ukr: Ха́рків) is the second largest city in Ukraine, a center of Kharkivska oblast. It is situated in the northeast of the country and has a population of two million. ... Saint Basils Cathedral and Spasskaya Tower of Moscow Kremlin at Red Square. ... June 20 is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 194 days remaining. ... July 3 is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 181 days remaining. ...

The White Army was accused by the Soviets of cruelty on conquered territories, usually against "workers", for which the Soviet historiography would dub this regime "Denikinschina". Some of the units and formations of the VA possessed good military skills and fighting strength due to a large number of officers in its ranks, who hated and despised the Soviets. However, the VA's fighting efficiency started to decrease in the summer of 1919 in light of significant losses and recruitment of mobilized peasants and even Red Army soldiers in captivity. 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... Soviet redirects here. ... Summer is a season, defined by convention in meteorology as the whole months of June, July and August in the Northern hemisphere and the whole months of December, January and February in the Southern hemisphere. ... Recruitment refers to the process of finding possible candidates for a job or function, undertaken by recruiters. ...

During the counter-offensive of the Red Army (since October of 1919), the VA sustained a decisive defeat and rolled back to the South. In the early 1920, it retreated to the areas beyond the Don region and was reduced to a Corps of 5,000 men under the command of General Alexander Kutepov. October is the tenth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... A corps (a word that immigrated from the French language, pronounced like English core, but originating in the Latin corpus, corporis meaning body; plural same as singular) is either a large military unit or formation, a administrative grouping of troops within an army with a common function (such as artillery... Alexander Pavlovich Kutepov (Александр Павлович Кутепов in Russian) (9. ...

On March 26 and March 27, 1920, the remnants of the VA were evacuated from Novorossiysk to the Crimea, where they merged with the army of Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel. March 26 is the 85th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (86th in leap years). ... March 27 is the 86th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (87th in Leap years). ... Evacuation can have several meanings: In wilderness first aid, evacuation is the transport of a seriously injured person out of the wilderness to the nearest point an ambulance can reach to take them to the hospital, or to the nearest emergency room. ... Novorossiysk (Russian Новороссийск) - city in southern Russia, one of the main Russian ports on the Black Sea, in Krasnodar Krai. ... The Crimea (officially Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Russian transliteration: Avtonomnaya Respublika Krym, Russian: Автономная Республика Крым, Ukrainian: Автономна Республіка Крим, , pronounced cry-MEE-ah in English) is a peninsula and an autonomous republic of Ukraine on the northern coast of the Black Sea. ... Baron Wrangel Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel (Врангель, Пётр Николаевич in Russian) (August 15, 1878, Zarasai, Lithuania (then Imperial Russia) — April 25, 1928, Brussels, Belgium), was the one of the leaders of the White movement in Southern Russia, Lieutenant General (1917). ...