Armed forces of the south of russia vsyur. Armed Forces of the South of Russia White Guard Armed Forces of the South of Russia
THE ARMED FORCES OF THE SOUTH OF RUSSIA (VSYUR), the combined armed forces of the White movement in the South of Russia during the Civil War of 1917-22. They existed in 1919-20. Formed on 8.1.1919 as a result of an agreement between the commander of the Volunteer Army, Lieutenant-General A.I. Denikin and the ataman of the Don Cossack army, General of the cavalry P.N. the right of ranks, awards and reorganization of the Don army remained with the ataman). Military formations of other Cossack troops of the South of Russia at the time of the formation of the ARSUR were part of the Volunteer (Kuban and Terek troops) and Don (Astrakhan troops) armies. Soon after the organization of the ARSUR, the Crimean-Azov and Caucasian Volunteer Armies (in January 1919), as well as the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Don armies (in February 1919) were deployed from the Volunteer Army. Since February 1919, the Entente countries have provided assistance to the AFSR (for example, in March - September, Great Britain delivered 12 tanks, 558 guns, over 1.5 million artillery shells, etc.). In April 1919, the French military presence was completely phased out, and the British one was limited by the actions of the fleet and technical units.
The refusal of Great Britain from a military presence in Turkestan in the spring of 1919 made it easier for the troops of the Trans-Caspian region to join the AFYR (in the summer and autumn they fought against the Soviet troops advancing along the Turkestan railway). On 6/12/1919, the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Yugoslavia announced his subordination to the Supreme Ruler of Russia and the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of Land and Naval Forces, Admiral A.V. Kolchak, but in fact continued to act independently due to the remoteness of the theater of operations and communication difficulties (information about the transfer of powers of the Supreme Ruler to Denikin by Kolchak on 4.1.1920 did not reach the VSYUR in a timely manner). By October 1919, the AFSR, after a number of reorganizations, consisted of the Volunteer, Caucasian and Don armies, the troops of the Novorossiysk and Kiev regions, the troops of the Black Sea coast and the North Caucasus, the Black Sea Fleet, the Caspian Flotilla and the River Forces of the South of Russia (in total over 113 thousand bayonets and about 46 thousand sabers, about 2.8 thousand machine guns, about 600 artillery pieces, 72 aircraft, 38 tanks, 34 armored vehicles, 41 armored trains, about 120 warships, auxiliary ships and armed steamers).
The existence of the so-called Special Conference under the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Yugoslavia, which performed legislative and executive functions, the presence of its own lawmaking, money emission allow the Armed Forces to qualify as a state entity. The management of the territories occupied by the AFYR was carried out by the chief commanders (appointed by the commander-in-chief of the AFYR) of individual regions (Kharkov, Yekaterinoslav, Kursk and Oryol provinces were subordinate to the commander of the Volunteer Army, the Saratov province - to the commander of the Caucasian army, the Black Sea province - to the commander of the Black Sea coastal region troops), The regions of the Cossack troops were ruled by elected chieftains and military governments, which enjoyed considerable autonomy. In the national regions of the North Caucasus (Chechnya, Kabarda, etc.), the institution of rulers functioned (formally independent, but actually appointed by the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Yugoslavia). Initially, the staffing of the Armed Forces was carried out mainly at the expense of volunteers. But as the scale of the struggle increased and the losses associated with it, the command of the Armed Forces of Yugoslavia began to resort to mobilization in the occupied territories, as well as to replenish its troops with captured Red Army soldiers, which negatively affected their combat capabilities.
Heavy defeats of the Don army in the northern sector of the front at the beginning of 1919 created a threat of dismemberment and complete defeat of the AFSR. In March - April, the offensive of Soviet troops was stopped in Crimea, Donbass, on the Lower Don and Manych, and during the counteroffensive in May - June, the AFSR reached the line of the Lower Dnieper, Yekaterinoslav, Kharkov, Balashov, Tsaritsyn. The troops of the Caucasian army approached Astrakhan (see Astrakhan defense 1919-20). The largest military action of the AFSR was the Moscow campaign of Denikin in 1919, as a result of which the troops of the AFSR, repelling the August 1919 offensive of the Soviet Southern Front and defeating (September - October) the armies of the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Ukrainian Galician Army, reached the border by October 1919 Odessa, Mogilev-Podolsky, Kiev, Chernigov, Oryol, Voronezh, Tsaritsyn. But as a result of the counter-offensive of the Southern Front in 1919 and the intensification of the Makhnovist movement in the rear of the Volunteer Army, the offensive of the All-Soviet Union of Yugoslavia ceased. Attempts by the command of the ARSUR to organize defense in the Lower Don (December 1919 - January 1920), as well as in the Odessa region (January 1920), the Manych rivers (January - February 1920) and the Kuban (March 1920), ended in failure. The main grouping of troops of the Kiev and Novorossiysk regions (Lieutenant General N.E. Bredov), not accepting the battle near Odessa and making a march in January-February to the area of the deployment of Polish troops (the so-called Bredovsky campaign), was interned (in the summer of 1920 it was partially transported to Crimea). The 2nd Army Corps of the ARSUR under the command of Major General Ya. A. Slashchev retreated to the Crimean Peninsula in January - February 1920 and managed to keep it. The main grouping of the AFYUR [Volunteer Corps (reorganized from the army), Don and Kuban (formed in January on the basis of the Caucasian army)] retreated to the North Caucasus. After the defeat of the Red Army of the North Caucasian group of the ARSUR, its remnants (35-40 thousand people, about 100 guns, up to 500 machine guns) were evacuated on March 26-27 from Novorossiysk to the Crimea. The remnants of the Transcaspian detachment and the troops of the North Caucasus, in turn, retreated to the territory of Georgia, where they were interned (transported to the Crimea during the summer - autumn 1920). On 4.4.1920 A. I. Denikin transferred command of the remnants of the Armed Forces to Lieutenant General P. N. Wrangel, who on 11 May 1920 created the “Russian Army” on the basis of the Armed Forces of South Russia (both names continued to exist in parallel until the fall of 1920).
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The AFYUR consisted of:
January-April 1919
Having defeated and destroyed by February 1919 in the North Caucasus the 90-thousandth 11th army of the Reds, the command of the ARSUR began to transfer troops to the north, to the coal basin of Donbass and to the Don, to help parts of the Don army (15 thousand bayonets and sabers), retreating under the onslaught of the Southern Front of the Red Army (85 thousand bayonets and sabers). In heavy defensive battles in March-April 1919, north of Rostov-on-Don and Novocherkassk, and on Manych, volunteers and Cossacks (25 thousand bayonets and sabers) held back the offensive of superior Red forces, thereby allowing the command of the AFSR to prepare a spring counteroffensive.
Hike to Moscow
In May - June, the Reds left Donbass, Crimea, June 24 - Kharkov, June 27 - Yekaterinoslav, June 30 - Tsaritsyn.
In mid-August, the Red Southern Front tried to launch a counteroffensive in order to crush the advancing main grouping of White forces, capture the lower reaches of the Don and prevent the main enemy forces from retreating to the North Caucasus.
Having learned in advance about the preparation of the counteroffensive, the Denikin command made an attempt to disrupt it, sending on August 10 the 4th Don Cossack Corps of Lieutenant General Mamontov (6 thousand sabers, 3 thousand bayonets, 12 guns) to a raid on the rear of the red troops. Having broken through the front, the Cossack corps went deep into the rear of the Reds, taking cities, destroying garrisons and enemy units, destroying communications, distributing weapons to the partisans. To combat it, the Soviet command created the Internal Front under the command of M. M. Lashevich (about 23 thousand people, aviation, armored trains).
The cavalry raid of Mamontov, although it could not disrupt the counteroffensive of the Red Army, completely destroyed and disorganized the rear of the Reds, seriously undermining the combat capability of the advancing units. On August 14, a special group (consisting of the 9th and 10th armies, the Cavalry Corps of Semyon Budyonny and a detachment of the Volga-Caspian military flotilla struck the main blow in the general direction of Rostov from the regions north of Novokhopyorsk and Kamyshin, and the shock group under the command of V.I Selivacheva (8th Army, part of the 13th Army, Voronezh fortified area) - from the Liski region to Kupyansk.
Moving forward with heavy fighting, by the beginning of September they reached the closest approaches to Kharkov and Tsaritsyn, where they were completely defeated. After that, Denikin's troops continued their successful offensive to the north and west. On August 27, Odessa was taken, on August 31 Kiev fell, on September 20 - Kursk.
September and the first half of October 1919 were the times of greatest success for the anti-Bolshevik forces. Leading a successful offensive, Denikin's troops took Voronezh on October 6, Oryol on October 13 and threatened Tula. The southern front of the Bolsheviks was crumbling.
But from mid-October 1919, the position of the Armed Forces of the South of Russia deteriorated markedly. The rear was destroyed by Makhno's raid across Ukraine, which broke through the Belykh front in the Uman region at the end of September; moreover, troops had to be withdrawn from the front against it, and the Bolsheviks, having concluded a truce with the Poles and Petliurists, freed up their forces to fight Denikin. Having created a quantitative and qualitative superiority over the enemy in the main, Oryol-Kursk, direction (62 thousand bayonets and sabers for the Reds versus 22 thousand for the Whites), in mid-October the Red Army launched a counteroffensive.
On April 4, 1920, Denikin resigned and left Russia. The remnants of the White troops withdrew to the Crimea and were transformed into the Russian Army under the command of General Baron Wrangel.
Commanders-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Yugoslavia
- Lieutenant General Denikin (January 8 - April 4)
- Lieutenant general Baron Wrangel (April 4 - May 11, 1920). Then the AFYUR was transformed into the Russian Army with the same commander-in-chief.
see also
- Posters VSYUR
Notes (edit)
Bibliography
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- Biographical directory of the highest ranks of the Volunteer Army and the Armed Forces of the South of Russia: Materials of the White Movement - 384 with ISBN 5-17-014831-3, ISBN 5-271-04653-2, ISBN 5-86566-050-0 ~ 92.11.27 / 657 ...
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- Order to the Special Meeting, drawn up by the Supreme Ruler of Russia, Lieutenant-General A.I.Denikin.
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Armed Forces of the South of Russia(VSYUR) - an operational-strategic formation of the white troops of the South of Russia in 1919-1920, during the Civil War. Formed on January 8, 1919 as a result of the unification for the joint struggle of the Volunteer Army and the army of the Great Don Army against the Bolsheviks. The maximum number of the AFSR reached in October 1919 - 270 thousand people, 600 guns, 38 tanks, 72 aircraft, about 120 ships (according to other sources, about 160 thousand people in July 1919).
Composition
The AFYUR consisted of:
- Volunteer Army (in January - May 1919 it was called the Caucasian Volunteer Army)
- Don Army (from 23 February 1919)
- Caucasian Army (from May 1919)
- Kuban Army (from February 1920, the former Caucasian Army)
- Crimean-Azov Army (from June 1919 - 3rd separate army corps)
- Separate Turkestan army
- Troops of the Terek-Dagestan Territory (from July 1919 - Troops of the North Caucasus)
- Troops of the Kiev region (from September 1919)
- Troops of Novorossiya and Crimea (from September 1919)
- Black Sea Fleet
- Don fleet
- Caspian military flotilla, etc.
- According to the agreement signed on November 6, 1919, the Ukrainian Galician Army was supposed to join the Armed Forces, but as a result of the retreat of the Whites from the territory of Ukraine, this agreement was not fully implemented.
January-April 1919
Having defeated and destroyed by February 1919 in the North Caucasus the 90,000th 11th Red Army, the command of the ARSUR began to transfer troops to the north, into the coal basin of Donbass and the Don, to help the units of the Don Army (15,000 bayonets and sabers) retreating under the onslaught of the Southern Front of the Red Army (85 thousand bayonets and sabers). In heavy defensive battles in March-April 1919, north of Rostov-on-Don and Novocherkassk, and on Manych, volunteers and Cossacks (25 thousand bayonets and sabers) held back the offensive of superior Red forces, thereby allowing the command of the AFSR to prepare a spring counteroffensive. In March 1919, the white command in the South of Russia organized a state guard, beginning to form its own state apparatus in the occupied territories.
Hike to Moscow
On May 17, 1919, the Armed Forces of the South of Russia began an operation to defeat the Southern Front of the Red Army in order to enter the operational space and launch an offensive on Moscow.
In mid-May 1919, the troops of the Red Southern Front (100 thousand bayonets and sabers, 460 guns, 2000 machine guns) under the command of V.M. Don and Novocherkassk with the aim of encircling and destroying parts of the Armed Forces of South Russia.
May 17 - 24, 1919, the troops of the ARSUR, using massive peasant-Cossack uprisings in the rear of the Red Army (in the Upper Don and in the Ukraine), as part of the Volunteer, Don and Caucasian armies (70 thousand bayonets and sabers, 350 guns, 1500 machine guns) under the general command of General Denikin, they inflicted counterattacks, broke through the Red front and launched a counteroffensive in the strip from the Azov Sea to the Caspian Sea, striking the main blow at Kharkov and an auxiliary one at Tsaritsyn.
In May - June, the Reds left Donbass, Crimea, June 24 - Kharkov, June 27 - Yekaterinoslav, June 30 - Tsaritsyn.
The military defeats of the armies of the Southern Front at the end of May 1919 gave reason to consider them a prologue to the fall of Soviet power, therefore, on July 3, 1919, Denikin in Tsaritsyn set his troops the task of capturing Moscow. His directive read:
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With the ultimate goal of capturing the heart of Russia - Moscow, I order:
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However, the Whites constantly lacked the strength to develop success, since the main provinces and industrial cities of central Russia were in the hands of the Reds. Why the latter had an advantage both in the number of troops and in armament. The Soviet command, for its part, proclaimed the slogan "All for the fight against Denikin!" (July 9) and took extraordinary measures to strengthen the Southern Front. Already in July, its number increased to 180 thousand people. and approx. 900 guns. The pace of the Denikin offensive slowed down - only on the right flank of the offensive of the Caucasian army was it possible to advance north and capture Kamyshin on July 22.
In mid-August, the Red Southern Front tried to launch a counteroffensive in order to crush the advancing main grouping of White forces, capture the lower reaches of the Don and prevent the main enemy forces from retreating to the North Caucasus.
Having learned in advance about the preparation of the counteroffensive, the Denikin command made an attempt to disrupt it, sending on August 10 the 4th Don Cossack Corps of Lieutenant General Mamontov (6 thousand sabers, 3 thousand bayonets, 12 guns) to a raid on the rear of the red troops. Having broken through the front, the Cossack corps went deep into the rear of the Reds, taking cities, destroying garrisons and enemy units, destroying communications, distributing weapons to the partisans. To combat it, the Soviet command created the Internal Front under the command of M. M. Lashevich (about 23 thousand people, aviation, armored trains). The cavalry raid of Mamontov, although it could not disrupt the counteroffensive of the Red Army, completely destroyed and disorganized the rear of the Reds, seriously undermining the combat capability of the advancing units.
On August 14, a special group (consisting of the 9th and 10th armies, the Cavalry Corps of Semyon Budyonny and a detachment of the Volga-Caspian military flotilla struck the main blow in the general direction of Rostov from the regions north of Novokhopyorsk and Kamyshin, and the shock group under the command of V.I. Selivacheva (8th Army, part of the 13th Army, Voronezh fortified area) - from the Liski region to Kupyansk, advancing with heavy battles, by the beginning of September they reached the near approaches to Kharkov and Tsaritsyn, where they were completely defeated. Denikin's troops continued their successful offensive to the north and west.Odessa was taken on August 27, Kiev fell on August 31, and Kursk on September 20.
September and the first half of October 1919 were the times of greatest success for the anti-Bolshevik forces. Leading a successful offensive, Denikin's troops took Voronezh on October 6, Oryol on October 13 and threatened Tula. The southern front of the Bolsheviks was crumbling. The Bolsheviks were close to disaster and were preparing to go underground and flee abroad. An underground Moscow Party Committee was created, and government agencies began evacuating to Vologda. All the forces of the South and part of the forces of the South-Eastern fronts were thrown against the AFSR (image 27 September 1919).
But from mid-October 1919, the position of the Armed Forces of the South of Russia deteriorated markedly. The rear was destroyed by Makhno's raid across Ukraine, which broke through the white front in the Uman region at the end of September, and moreover, troops had to be withdrawn from the front against it, and the Bolsheviks, having concluded a truce with the Poles and Petliurists, freed up forces to fight Denikin. Of particular importance was the fact of the transfer of the Latvian Rifle Division from the Polish front in Belarus to the Southern Front, near Karachev, on its basis, a Shock Group was formed under the command of the chief of the Latvian Division A.A. Martusevich, which, with its flank attack in the 20th of October, stopped the Moscow of the Kornilovites. Having created a quantitative and qualitative superiority over the enemy in the main, Oryol-Kursk, direction (62 thousand bayonets and sabers for the Reds versus 22 thousand for the Whites), in mid-October the Red Army launched a counteroffensive.
In fierce battles, marching with varying success, south of Orel, small units of the Volunteer Army by the end of October, the troops of the Southern Front (commander A.I. Yegorov) of the Reds defeated them, and then began to push them along the entire front line. In the winter of 1919-1920, Denikin's troops left Kharkov, Kiev, Donbass, Rostov-on-Don. In February-March 1920, a defeat followed in the battle for the Kuban due to the disintegration of the Kuban army (because of its separatism, the most unstable part of the AFSR). After that, the Cossack units of the Kuban army decayed completely and began to surrender en masse to the Reds or go over to the side of the "greens", which entailed the collapse of the White front and the retreat of the White Army to Novorossiysk.
On April 4, 1920, Denikin resigned and left Russia. The remnants of the White troops withdrew to the Crimea and were transformed into the Russian Army under the command of General Baron Wrangel.
Commanders-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Yugoslavia
- Lieutenant General Denikin (January 8, 1919 - April 4, 1920)
- Lieutenant general Baron Wrangel (April 4 - May 11, 1920). Then the AFYUR was transformed into the Russian Army with the same commander-in-chief.
The AFYUR consisted of:
- (in January - May 1919 it was called the Caucasian Volunteer)
- Don army
- Caucasian Army (from May 1919)
- Kuban army (from February 1920)
- Crimean-Azov Volunteer Army (from June 1919 - 3rd separate army corps)
- Separate Turkestan army
- Troops of the Terek-Dagestan Territory (from July 1919 - Troops of the North Caucasus)
- Troops of the Kiev region (from September 1919)
- Troops of Novorossiya and Crimea (from September 1919)
- Caspian military flotilla, etc.
Hike to Moscow
On May 17 - 24, the ARSUR as part of the Volunteer, Don and Caucasian armies under the general command of General Denikin inflicted counterattacks, broke through the front and launched a counteroffensive in the zone from to, delivering the main blow to.
At the same time, rebellions broke out in the rear of the Soviet troops in the Upper Don, in, and in the provinces, the suppression of which required significant forces.
Having suffered a series of severe defeats, the Soviet troops left in May - June.
In mid-August, the Southern Front tried to go over to a counteroffensive in order to defeat the advancing main grouping of white forces, seize the lower reaches and prevent the main enemy forces from retreating to.
Having learned in advance about the preparation of the counter-offensive, the Denikin command made an attempt to disrupt it, sending the 4th Don Cossack Corps of Lieutenant General (6 thousand sabers, 3 thousand bayonets, 12 guns) to a raid on the rear of the red troops. To combat it, the Soviet command created the Internal Front under the command of M. M. Lashevich (about 23 thousand people, aviation, armored trains). Having suffered significant losses, the remnants of the Mamontovites went behind the front line.
Mamontov's cavalry raid was unable to thwart the Red Army's counteroffensive. A special group (as part of the 9th and 10th armies, the Cavalry Corps and a detachment of the Volga-Caspian military flotilla struck the main blow in the general direction from the regions to the north and, and the shock group under the command of V.I.Selivachev (8th Army During the counteroffensive, Soviet troops were able to reach the approaches to and, but were thrown back to the north by several counterattacks, failing to achieve their goals due to lack of forces and poor interaction. no less the Southern Front succeeded in delaying Denikin's offensive against Moscow for a whole month.
In September, Denikin's troops continued their offensive - they took, -, - (Ukraine was occupied by the White Guard troops back in August).
The troops of the Southern Front launched a counteroffensive. Fierce battles unfolded, which were fought with varying success for more than two weeks. During their course, the White Guards took, but already
After the Bolsheviks came to power, the country began. The main focus of resistance to the forces of the Red Army was in the south. Here, at the end of 1917, the formation of armed units began, which were preparing to repulse the Bolsheviks. Later, they became an operational-strategic formation of the white troops, which was called the Armed Forces of the South of Russia. (VSYUR).
In November 1917, the Alekseevsk military organization was created, which was formed from officers, cadets, cadets, cadets, students, gymnasium students who fled to the Don - everyone who knew how and wanted to fight against the Bolsheviks. Later it was renamed into, which included the Kornilovsky, Consolidated Officer, Partisan foot Cossack regiments, the Junker battalion, the Cavalry division and two cavalry detachments. He commanded the Volunteer Army.
The second large army that was part of the AFYUR was the Don Army. It consisted of regular units of the stanitsa militia, it included armored cars, armored trains, technical and aviation units. The commanders of the Don Army were alternately Major Generals K.S. Polyakov, P.Kh. Popov, S.V. Denisov. and Lieutenant General Sidorin V.I.
The Caucasian army, which is part of the AFYUR, was formed from the troops of the Tsaritsyn front. The army included several cavalry divisions, lancers and hussars. The command was carried out by Lieutenant General, and later by Lieutenant General Pokrovsky. After the disbandment, the main units were transferred to the newly created Kuban army, under the command of a general.
In 1919, the ARSUR included the Crimean-Azov Army, which included several horse-drawn pegs, divisions and divisions. By the end of 1919, on the basis of this army, the troops of the Novorossiysk region were formed.
In 1919-1920, by order, the Turkestan Army was created, which was part of the Armed Forces of Yugoslavia. The task of this armed formation was to conduct hostilities in the Trans-Caspian region of the Russian Empire. The Turkestan army was equipped with 5 armored trains, had two artillery divisions and several mounted units. In addition, she was actively supported by the local Basmachi.
For a short time, the Armed Forces of Yugoslavia included the troops of the Kiev region participating in hostilities near Kiev and the troops of Novorossiya and Crimea, created on the basis of the Crimean-Azov Army.
The general command of all the armed forces of the South of Russia was carried out by General A.I.Denikin. Also in his subordination were the ships of the Black Sea, Don fleets and the Caspian flotilla. VSYUR fought fierce battles with the Red Army. By the end of 1920, the armies of the ARSUR began to pursue setbacks. Denikin understood that his armies could no longer offer worthy resistance to the Bolsheviks. After his retirement, General Baron PN Wrangel took command of the remnants of the Armed Forces. Soon they were renamed the Russian Army.
