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    Kolchak, Aleksandr Vasil'evich

    By Evgenii Vladimirovich Volkov

    Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak (1847-1920)
    Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak was a Russian admiral and political figure during the First World War and Russian Civil War. A significant leader of the White movement in eastern Russia during the Russian Civil War, he was proclaimed Supreme Ruler.
    Bain News Service: Admiral Kolchak, black-and-white photograph, n.p., n.d.; source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ggbain-28646, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ggbain.28646.
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    Kolchak, Aleksandr Vasil’evich

    Russian Admiral and political figure

    Born 16 November 1874 in Aleksandrovskoe, Russian Empire

    Died 07 February 1920 in Irkutsk, Russia


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    Aleksandr Vasil'evich Kolchak was a Russian admiral and political figure. He participated in the Russo-Japanese War, the First World War, and the Russian Civil War. He was one of the leaders of the W
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    ALEKSANDR VASILYEVICH KOLCHAK
     


    Aleksandr V. Kolchak 1874-1920

    Kolchak, a Russian navy officer, was an explorer of the Arctic.
     



    After the February Revolution of 1917, Kolchak was forced to resign. He went to the United States.

    After the October Revolution of 1917, Kolchak went back to Russia. At Omsk he became leader of the  White Army.

     

     

    The Kolchak Coup

    On November 18, 1918, Kolchak staged a military coup d'état and established an anti-Bolshevik government in Siberia with headquarters at Omsk.

    After the coup, Kolchak was now ruler of Russia, at least that's how the White Army and their friends saw it.

    But it went downhill with the White Army. The Red Army took Omsk on November 14, 1919. Kolchak moved his headquarters to Irkutsk.

    On January 4,

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    Alexander Kolchak

    Full Name

    Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak

    Born

    16 November 1874 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (age 61)

    Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchakis a former Russian admiral, military leader, polar explorer and important political figure of the vit Movement during the Russian Civil War, when he served as Supreme Military Commander of all vit Russian forces and head of the Provisional All-Russian Government.

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    Early Life[]

    Kolchak was born into family of minor Russian nobility in St. Petersburg on 16 November 1874. Both of his parents were of Romanian ursprung and born in Odessa; His father had once served in the Russian Black Sea Fleet and participated in the Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War of 1853-1856. Therefore, Kolchak strove to join the navy as well to follow in his father's footsteps.

    Kolchak therefore enrolled at the Naval Cadet Corps and graduated in 1894, joining the 7th Naval Battalion. He was soon transferred to