Army of Wrangel

The Army of Wrangel or Russian Army (Russian: Русская армія), commanded by General Pyotr Wrangel, was a White Army that operated during the Russian Civil War from April to November 1920 in the south of Russia. It was formed from the reorganization of the Armed Forces of South Russia on 28 April 1920.

In November 1920, after the abandonment of defensive positions of Perekop the army was evacuated to Turkey. Subsequently, veterans of the army were among the founders of the Russian All-Military Union.

Composition

The Russian army had a staff and five Army Corps:

  • Staff (military leadership, engineering direction, headquarters at Sevastopol, general staff, naval direction, counter-espionage, and others). Chief of Staff: General Pavel Chatilov.
  • The 1st Army Corps : the Drozdovski, Markov, Kornilov and Alekseev divisions under command of Lieutenant-General Alexander Kutepov,
  • The 2nd Army Corps : {13th and 34th infantry divisions and cavalry brigade under command of Lieutenant-general Yakov Slashchov,
  • The Don Corps, formed on 1 May 1920 : 2nd and 3rd Don divisions and a guard brigade. Integrated in the 1st Army Corps on 4 September 1920. Commander: Fyodor Abramov,
  • The Corps of Pyotr Pisarev: 3rd Cavalry division, Kuban Cossack division of Kuban and the brigades of Terek-Astrakhan and Chechnya. Formerly part of the Kuban Army. Transformed on 7 July 1920 into a cavalry corps,
  • The Cavalry Corps, formed on 7 July 1920, grouping of the 1st and 2nd Cavalry divisions under Ivan Barbovitch. Incorporated into the 1st Army Corps on 4 September 1920.
  • The group of lieutenant-general Sergei Ulagay, units dedicated to the landing in Kuban : 1st and 2nd Kuban Cossacks divisions and Terek-Astrakhan Brigade.

Numbers:

in May : 22,000 to 27,000 men (at the beginning of 1920 in Crimea 3,500 men, approximately 35,000 to 40,000 were evacuated from the North Caucasus).
At the beginning of June : 25,000 men.
In September 1920 the army and its rear bases had about 300,000 men, of whom about 50,000 on the front, 80,000 in the military camps and 30,000 injured.
In September the combat troops of the army counted 30,000 to 35,000 men (33,000 in mid-September),
in October : 25,000 to 27,000.
On the 50,000 Russian army officers 6,000 were in the combat troops, 13,000 in support of the front and 31,000 at the back (including the sick and wounded) [1].

References

  1. ↑ Volkov SV, Сайт историка Сергея Владимировича Волкова. Beloe dviženie v Rossii:organizacionnaâ struktura

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