Administration of the Corps 1st Army Corps (1st, 3rd, 9th Infantry Divisions) of the Volunteer Army Corps Commander: Gen-Lt A.P. Kutepov Chief of Staff: Gen-Lt V.P. Agapeev Inspector of Artillery: Gen-Maj I.T. Belyaev 2nd Army Corps (5th and 7th Infantry Divisions) of the Volunteer Army Corps Commander: Gen-Lt M.N. Promptov Chief of Staff: Gen-Maj Abutkov Inspector of Artillery: Gen-Maj Bodisko 1st Kuban Corps (1st Kuban Cossack Division) of the Caucasus Army Corps Commander: Gen-Lt V.L. Pokrovskiy Chief of Staff: Col I.A. Rebdev Inspector of Artillery: Gen-Maj Stopchanskiy 2nd Kuban Corps (2nd, 3rd, and 4th Kuban Cossack Divisions) of the Caucasus Army Corps Commander: Gen-Maj V.G. Naumenko (used to be Gen-Maj Ulagay) Chief of Staff: unfilled - was Gen-Maj Shuberskiy Inspector of Artillery: - 3rd Kuban Corps (1st Caucasus & 1st Tersk Cossack Divisions) of the Volunteer Army Corps Commander: Gen-Lt A.G. Shkuro Chief of Staff: Gen-Maj A.M. Shifner-Markevich Inspector of Artillery: Col Urchukin 4th Horse Corps (1st Composite Gorsk Horse Division) of the Caucasus Army Corps Commander: Gen-Lt S.A. Toporkov Chief of Staff: Gen-Maj M.M. Georgievich Inspector of Artillery: Gen-Maj Mal'tsev 5th Cavalry Corps (1st & 2nd Cavalry Divisions) of the Volunteer Army Corps Commander: Gen-Lt Ya.D. Yuzefovich Chief of Staff: Gen-Maj P.A. Kusonskiy Inspector of Artillery: Gen-Lt M.I. Rep'iev 1st Infantry Division (1st Army Corps) Division Commander: Gen-Maj N.S. Timanovskiy Chief of Staff: Col A. Bittenbinder 1st Brigade: Gen-Maj A.N. Tret'yakov 2nd Brigade: Col N.V. Skoblin 1st Officer's of General Markov Infantry Division: Col Blaish 2nd Officer's of General Markov Infantry Division: Col Morozov 1st Kornilov Shock Regiment: Col M.A. Peshnya 2nd Kornilov Shock Regiment: - 3rd Kornilov Shock Regiment: - Reserve Battalion of the 1st Infantry Division: Col Konovalov 1st Artillery Brigade: - 1st Battery: Col Mashin 2nd Battery: Col Mikhailov 3rd Battery: Col Rapponet 4th Battery: Col Ayvasov 1st Engineers of General Markov Company: Col Grottenhelm Kornilov Division (1st Army Corps) Division Commander: Col N.V. Skoblin (seems the same as the 1st Infantry Division's 2nd Brigade commander) Chief of Staff: 1st Brigade: 2nd Brigade 1st Kornilov Shock Regiment: Col M.A. Peshnya 2nd Kornilov Shock Regiment: Col Pashkevich 3rd Kornilov Shock Regiment: Cavalry Colonel (Esaul) Mileev Kornilov Artillery Brigade: Col Erogin Independent Engineer Company of the Kornilov Division: - Reserve Battalion of the Kornilov Division: - Markov Division (1st Army Corps) Division Commander: Gen-Maj N.S. Timanovskiy Chief of Staff: - 1st Brigade: - 2nd Brigade: - 1st Officer's of General Markov Infantry Regiment: Col Blaish 2nd Officer's of General Markov Infantry Regiment: Col Morozov 3rd Officer's of General Markov Infantry Regiment: - Markov Artillery Brigade: - 1st Battery: - 2nd Battery: - 3rd Battery: - 4th Battery: - Independent Engineers of General Markov Company: - Reserve Battalion of Markov Division: - 2nd Infantry Division (in the composition of the forces of the Black Sea Military Governate) Division Commander: Gen-Maj A.N. Cherepov Chief of Staff: unfilled - was Col Borodaevskiy 1st Brigade: - 2nd Brigade: Col Borodaevskiy Caucasus Officer's Regiment: unfilled - was Col Ushak 1st Kuban Rifle Regiment: Col Dmitriev Black Sea Rifle Regiment: Col Nordashenko Reserve Battalion of the 2nd Infantry Division: Col Semashko 2nd Artillery Brigade: Col Erogin 1st Battery: Col Pimenov 2nd Battery: Col Efremov 3rd Battery: Col S.D. Gegelashvili 4th Battery: Col Il'yashevich 2nd Independent Engineer Company: Col Bershov Drozdovskiy (was the 3rd Infantry) Division (1st Army Corps) Division Commander: Gen-Maj V.K. Vitkovskiy Chief of Staff: Col F.E. Bredov 1st Brigade: Gen-Maj Kel'ner 2nd Brigade: - 1st Officers of General Drozdovskiy Regiment: Col Rumel 2nd Officers of General Drozdovskiy Regiment: unfilled - was Col M.A. Zvyagin Reserve Battalion of the Drozdovskiy Division (was the Reserve Battalion of the 3rd Infantry Division): Col En'kov Drozdovskiy Artillery Brigade (was the 3rd Artillery Brigade): Col M.N. Polzikov 1st Battery: Col V.A. Protasevich (the 1st Battery was called the 1st General Drozdovskiy Light Battery) 2nd Battery: Col Shane 3rd Battery: Col Sokolov 4th Battery: Col A.K. Medvedev Independent Engineers of General Drozdovskiy Company (was the 3rd Engineers): Col Borodin 4th Infantry Division (counted in the composition of the Novorossiysk Oblast Forces) Division Commander: Gen-Maj Ya.A. Slashchov Chief of Staff: - 1st Brigade: - 2nd Brigade: - Simferopol Officer's Regiment: Col Gvozdakov 1st Composite Regiment of the 13th Infantry Regiment: 2nd Composite Regiment of the 13th Infantry Regiment: 1st Composite Regiment of the 34th Infantry Regiment: 2nd Composite Regiment of the 34th Infantry Regiment: Reserve Battalion of the 4th Infantry Division: Col Borisenko 4th Artillery Brigade: Gen-Maj Roslyakov 1st Battery: Col Gudima 2nd Battery: Col Zamfirov 3rd Battery: Gen-Maj Zhukov 4th Battery: Gen-Maj Sivitskiy 4th Independent Engineer Company: - Composite Guard Infantry Division (formerly the 5th Infantry Division) (2nd Army Corps) Division Commander: Gen-Maj P.S. Ossovskiy Chief of Staff: Col Akhatkin 1st Brigade: Gen-Maj Baron N.I. Shtackleberg 2nd Brigade: - Composite Regiment of the 1st Guard Division (formerly the Guard Composite Regiment): Gen-Maj Moller Composite Regiment of the 2nd Guard Division (formerly the Guard Composite Regiment): Col Stessel Composite Regiment of the Guard Rifle Division: - Composite Regiment of the 19th Infantry Division (disbanded by 29 Oct (12 Nov)): - Composite Regiment of the 20th Infantry Division (disbanded by 29 Oct (12 Nov)): - 80th Kabardino Infantry Regiment (disbanded by 29 Oct (12 Nov)): - Reserve Battalion of the Composite Guard Division (formerly the Reserve Battalion of the 5th Infantry Division): - Composite Guard Artillery Brigade: Gen-Maj M. Bez-Kornilovich 1st Battery: - 2nd Battery: Col Plyushchinskiy 3rd Battery: Col Abramovskiy 4th Battery: Col Sax Independent Artillery Battery: Col Shpigel Independent Guard Heavy Howitzer Battery: Col Kazachinskiy Guard Independent Engineer Company: Col Beliy Composite Grenadier Division (Caucasus Army) Division Commander: Gen-Lt P.K. Pisarev Chief of Staff: unfilled in Nov (was Col Skoblev) 1st Brigade: Gen-Maj M. Chichinadze 2nd Brigade: Col B.P.Kochkin (was Col B.K. Manakin) Composite Regiment of the 1st Grenadier Division: unfilled in Nov (was Col B.K. Kochkin) Composite Regiment of the 2nd Grenadier Division: Col Stavitskiy (was Col G.K. Pil'berg) Composite Regiment of the 3rd Grenadier Division: Col Yakovlev Composite Regiment of the Caucasus Grenadier Division: Col G.K. Pil'berg Reserve Battalion of the Composite Grenadier Division: - Composite Grenadier Artillery Brigade: Gen-Maj S.M. Ikishev 1st Battery: Col Ivanov 2nd Battery: Col Stolbin 3rd Battery: - 4th Battery: Col Dzhizkaev Grenadier Independent Engineer Company: - 7th Infantry Division (2nd Army Corps) Division Commander: Gen-Lt N.E. Bredov Chief of Staff: Col Evert 1st Brigade: Gen-Maj P.P. Nepenin 2nd Brigade: - Composite Regiment of the 4th Rifle Division: Col Udovichenko 42nd Infantry Yakutsk Regiment: Gen-Maj T. Bernise Composite Regiment of the 15th Infantry Division: - Reserve Battalion of the 7th Infantry Division: - 7th Artillery Brigade: - 1st Battery: Col Pashkov 2nd Battery: Col Krasovskiy 3rd Battery: Col Ostrovskiy 4th Battery: Col Dobrovol'skiy 7th Independent Engineer Company: Col Dobrovol'skiy 8th Infantry Division (in the Forces of North Caucasus) Division Commander: Gen-Maj Rudnev Chief of Staff: - 1st Brigade: - 2nd Brigade: Col Silin 81st Infantry Apsheronsk Regiment: Col Dubyago 82nd Infantry Dagestan Regiment: Col Timorenko-Krivitskiy 84th Infantry Shirvanskiy Regiment: Col Kamionko 1st Composite Regiment of the 52nd Infantry Division: Col Zhukovskiy 2nd Composite Regiment of the 52nd Infantry Division: Col Parkhomovich Reserve Battalion of the 8th Infantry Division Col Gurtikh 8th Artillery Brigade: Gen-Maj Milostanov 1st Battery: Col. Zanfirov 2nd Battery: Col Menk (was Col Rzhevushkhin) 3rd Battery: Gen-Maj Erdman 4th Battery: Col D. Grigorovich Caucasus Independent Artillery Battery: - 8th Independent Engineer Company: - 9th Infantry Division (1st Army Corps) Division Commander: Gen-Maj Shevchenko Chief of Staff: Col Lebedev 1st Brigade: - 2nd Brigade: - *Partisans of General Alexeev Regiment: Col Gagarin - Note: this unit was disbanded by 29 Oct (12 Nov) 13th Belozersk Infantry Regiment: Col B.A. Steffan 14th Olen'ovka Infantry Regiment: Col Bykanov Composite Rifle Regiment: Col G.K. Gravitskiy Reserve Battalion of the 9th Infantry Division: - 9th Artillery Brigade: - 1st Battery: - 2nd Battery: - 4th Battery: - 9th Independent Engineer Company: - Alexeev Infantry Division (5th Cavalry Corps) Division Commander: Gen-Maj A.N. Tretyakov Chief of Staff: - 1st Brigade: - 2nd Brigade: - 1st Partisan's of General Alexeev Regiment: Col P.G. Buzun 2nd Partisan's of General Alexeev Regiment: Col Prince Gagarin Samur Infantry Regiment: was commanded by Col M.A. Zvyagin Alexeev Artillery Brigade: - Independent Engineers of General Alexeev Company: - Reserve Battalion of the Alexeev Infantry Division: - 5th Infantry Division (2nd Army Corps) Division Commander: - Chief of Staff: - 1st Brigade: - 2nd Brigade: - Composite Regiment of the 19th Infantry Division: - Composite Regiment of the 20th Infantry Division: - 80th Infantry Kabardino Regiment: - 1st Independent Infantry Brigade (of the Volunteer Army) Brigade Commander: Gen-Maj Volkhovskiy 1st Regiment of the 31st Infantry Division: Col Smel'nitskiy 2nd Regiment of the 31st Infantry Division: Col Tkachev Artillery Battery: - Engineer Company: - Reserve Units Commander of the Reserve Units: Gen-Maj V.V. Kharlamov Commander of the 1st Army Reserve Brigade: Gen-Maj Buyvid 3rd Army Reserve Battalion: Col Bulgakov *4th Army Reserve Battalion: Col Stratonov Note: this unit was disbanded by 29 Oct (12 Nov) 5th Army Reserve Battalion: Col Yur'ev 6th Army Reserve Battalion: Col Yulatov (was Col Shekerov) 1st Army Reserve Battalion for Prisoners of War: Col Batalin 2nd Army Reserve Battalion for Prisoners of War: Note: this unit was disbanded by 29 Oct (12 Nov) Commander of the 2nd Army Reserve Brigade: Col Sychev 1st Army Reserve Battalion: Col Esiv Note: this unit was disbanded by 29 Oct (12 Nov) 2nd Army Reserve Battalion: Col Koch 6th Army Reserve Battalion: Col Platonov Note: this unit was disbanded by 29 Oct (12 Nov) 7th Army Reserve Battalion: Col Bakeev 9th Army Reserve Battalion: Col Stupin Reserve Machinegun Battalion: Col Glinskiy Reserve Engineer Regiment: Col Levashev Reserve Armored Car Division: - 12th Army Reserve Battalion: - 2nd Army Reserve Battalion for Prisoners of War: - Commander of the 3rd Army Reserve Brigade: - 1st Army Reserve Battalion: - 4th Army Reserve Battalion: Col Stratonov 8th Army Reserve Battalion: Col Shekerov 10th Army Reserve Battalion: - 11th Army Reserve Battalion: - 1st Cavalry Division (5th Cavalry Corps) Division Commander: Gen-Maj I.I. Chekatovskiy Chief of Staff: Col V.V. Crater 1st Brigade: Col I.G. Barbovich 2nd Brigade: Col Samsonov 3rd Brigade: Gen-Maj Zubov 1st Horse of General Alexeev Regiment: Col Saburov 10th Ingermanland Hussar Regiment: Cavalry Colonel (Rotmistr) Tikhonravov Composite Regiment of the 9th Cavalry Division: Col V.N. Vygran Composite Regiment of the 12th Cavalry Division of General Kaledin: Col Psiol Composite Lancer Regiment: Col G.P. Aprelev Composite Hussar Regiment: Col B. Gaevskiy 3rd Horse Artillery Battery: Capt Ermilov Composite Battery of Caucasus Horse-Mountain Artillery: - 2nd Cavalry Division (5th Cavalry Corps) Division Commander: Col I.M. Miklashevskiy Chief of Staff: Col B.M. Wordan 1st Brigade: Col Danilov 2nd Brigade: Col Baron Pritvits 3rd Brigade: - 1st Guards Composite Cuirassier Regiment: Col Kossikovskiy 2nd Guards Composite Cavalry Regiment: Col Gryaznov 2nd Horse of General Drozdovskiy Regiment: Col A.G. Chapron du Lare 3rd Horse Regiment: - Composite Caucasus Cavalry Division: Col Popov Composite Dragoon Regiment: Col Lermontov Independent Division of Guards Horse Artillery: Col Perfil'ev (was Col Trepov) Heavy Artillery 1st Independent Heavy Howitzer Battery (Caucasus Army): Gen-Maj Podgoretskiy 2nd Independent Heavy Howitzer Battery (Volunteer Army): Col Bek-Sofiev 3rd Independent Heavy Howitzer Battery (Volunteer Army): - 4th Independent Heavy Howitzer Battery (attached to the Forces of Novorossiysk Oblast): Col Purzhinskiy Independent Heavy Cannon-Tractor Division (Volunteer Army): - Independent Heavy Howitzer Battery (attached to the Forces of Novorossiysk Oblast): Col Saznevskiy Independent Heavy Tractor-Howitzer Division: Col Rzhevutskiy 1st Battery: Col Koptev 2nd Battery: Col Tolmachev Units not attached to the Divisions or Corps Composite Regiment of the 31st Infantry Division (Volunteer Army): Gen-Maj Volkhovskiy Note: this unit was disbanded by 29 Oct (12 Nov) Slavyansk Rifle Regiment (attached to the Forces of Novorossiysk Oblast): - Composite Siberian Rifle Regiment: Gen-Maj Vitsent'ev Crimean Horse Regiment (attached to the Forces of Novorossiysk Oblast): Gen-Maj Burnevich Composite Regiment of the 1st Independent Cavalry Brigade (Volunteer Army): Col Tugan-Mirza-Baranovskiy 5th Alexandriskiy Hussar Regiment (attached to the Forces of North Caucasus): - Stavropol Horse-Partisan Division (Caucasus Army): Col Glebov Composite Siberian Rifle Artillery Battery: - 1st Independent Telegraph Company (General Command Staff): - 2nd Independent Telegraph Company (Command Staff of the Volunteer Army): - 3rd Independent Telegraph Company (attached to the Forces of Novorossiysk Oblast): - 4th Independent Telegraph Company (Command Staff of the Caucasus Army): Capt Maevskiy 5th Independent Telegraph Company (Staff of the Volunteer Army): Col Druzhinin 6th Independent Telegraph Company (Volunteer Army): Lieutenant Chibirkov 7th Independent Telegraph Company (attached to the Forces of Novorossiysk Oblast): - 1st Radio-Telegraph Division (Caucasus Army): - 2nd Radio-Telegraph Division (Volunteer Army): Col Rar 3rd Radio-Telegraph Division (attached to the Forces of Novorossiysk Oblast): Col Schultz 8th Independent Telegraph Company (Command Staff of the Forces of Kiev Oblast): Col Krasnopevtsev 10th Independent Telegraph Company (5th Cavalry Corps): - 1st Aviation Division: - 2nd Aviation Division: - 3rd Aviation Division: - 10th Aviation Detachment: - 1st Division of Tanks: Captain Hartman 2nd Division of Tanks (Volunteer Army): - 1st Railroad Battalion: - 2nd Railroad Battalion: - 3rd Railroad Battalion: Col. Grossevich 4th Railroad Battalion Col. Safonov 2nd Independent Railroad Company: Note: this unit was disbanded by 29 Oct (12 Nov) Training Reserve Railroad Company: - 1st Worker's Railroad Battalion: was forming in Sep, formed by Oct 2nd Worker's Railroad Battalion: - 3rd Worker's Railroad Battalion: - 4th Worker's Railroad Battalion: - Caucasus Engineer Battalion: - 1st Caucasus Independent Engineer Company: - 2nd Caucasus Independent Engineer Company: Col Vvedenskiy 1st Independent Pontoon Company: - 2nd Independent Pontoon Company: - 1st Automobile Battalion (Caucasus Army): Captain Nyukhalov: - 2nd Automobile Battalion (attached to the Forces of North Caucasus): Col Zakharov 3rd Automobile Battalion (attached to the Forces of Novorossiysk Oblast): - 4th Automobile Battalion (attached to the Military Base): - 5th Automobile Battalion (Volunteer Army): - 6th Automobile Battalion (attached to the Forces of Kiev Oblast): - 1st Reserve Automobile Battalion (attached to the General Command Staff) Armored Trains Chief of the Armored Train Divisions: Gen-Maj M. Ivanov 1st Armored Train Division: Col Skopin Light Armored Train - "General Alekseev": Col Shamov Light Armored Train - "Forward for the Homeland": Col Skoritovskiy Heavy Armored Train - "Unified Russia": Col Karpinskiy 2nd Armored Train Division: Col Gromyko Light Armored Train - "General Kornilov": Capt Lazarev Light Armored Train - "Officer": Col Lebedev Heavy Armored Train - "Johann Kalita": Col A.A. Zelenetskiy 3rd Armored Train Division: Col Gadd (or Hadd) Light Armored Train - "Knight": Col Gurskiy Light Armored Train - "Dmitriy Donskoy": Capt Pleskovskiy Heavy Armored Train - "Prince Pozharskiy": Col Morilin 4th Armored Train Division: Col Selikov Light Armored Train - "Eagle": Capt Muromets Light Armored Train - "Glory to the Officer": Capt Khar'kovtsev Heavy Armored Train - "Terrible": Col V. Barkalov 5th Armored Train Division: Gen-Maj Ivanov Light Armored Train - "General Markov": Capt Sipyagin Light Armored Train - "Pounce": Capt Magnitskiy Heavy Armored Train - "Invincible": Col Kuznetsov 6th Armored Train Division Light Armored Train - "General Drozdovskiy": - Light Armored Train - "For Saint Rus": - Light Armored Train - "George the Victorious": Col Mokritskiy Light Armored Train - "Terets": Col Loiko Light Armored Train - "Caucasus Warrior": - Heavy Armored Train - "To Moscow": - More Armed Forces of South Russia OOB Part 1: Staffs of the Supreme Commander and of the Army Part 2: Administration of the Corps Part 3: Combat OOB for the VSYuR October 1919 Part 4: Trans-Caspian Detachments and Caucus Army Back to The Gauntlet No. 21 Table of Contents Back to The Gauntlet List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 2000 by Craig Martelle Publications This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. 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