Armed Forces of South Russia

Order of Battle 29 Sep 1919

translated by Craig Martelle

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": -


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