Caucasus Army (Armed Forces of South Russia)

Russian Civil War

General Wrangel, commander of the Caucasus Army, after taking Tsaritsyn.

The Caucasus Army (Russian: Кавка́зская а́рмия), was a Russian army which was a part of the White movement during the Russian Civil War. It operated from May 1919 to January 1920, in the Tsaritsyn \- Saratov area.

## History

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On 23 January 1919, the Volunteer Army was renamed Volunteer Army of the Caucasus. And on 22 May 1919, the Volunteer Army of the Caucasus was divided in two armies: The Caucasus Army, which advanced along the Tsaritsyn-Saratov line and the Volunteer Army, which advanced along the Kursk-Oryol line.

The Caucasus Army was composed of 4 corps and 1 cavalry division:

* 1st Kuban Corps (Gen. Pokrovsky)
* 2nd Kuban Corps (Gen. Ulaguy, later Gen. Nahumenko)
* 4th Corps (Gen. Shatilov, later Gen. Toporkov)
* 5th Corps (Gen. Józefovic)

On 5 July 1919, the Caucasus Army had 23.234 men, but 3 months later it only counted 15.079 men after the transfer of the 2nd Corps to the Don Army; along with 384 machineguns, 85 pieces of artillery, 15 airplanes and 7 armoured trains.

On 29 January 1920, the Caucasus Army was dissolved and succeeded by the Kuban Army.

## Commanders of the Caucasus Army

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* Lieutenant-general Pyotr Wrangel (21 May — 8 December 1919)
* Lieutenant-general Viktor Pokrovsky (9 December 1919 — 8 February 1920)

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White armies and fleets of the Russian Civil War

* Russian Army

Southern Front|

| Armed Forces of South Russia|

* 1st Army Corps
* 2nd Army Corps
* 3rd Army Corps

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* Astrakhan Army [ru]
* Volunteer Army
* Don Army
* Units
* Army Group Kiev of General Bredov
* Kiev Region Army Group [ru]
* Novorossiysk Region Army Group [ru]
* Kharkov Region Army Group
* North Caucasus Army [ru]
* Caucasus Army
* Crimean–Azov Army
* Kuban Army
* Black Sea Fleet
* Caspian Flotilla
* Army of Wrangel
* Ukrainian Galician Army (since November 1919)
* Southern Army

Eastern Front|

| Siberian Army|

* 1st Army (Siberian Army) [ru]
* 2nd Army (Siberian Army) [ru]
* 3rd Army (Siberian Army) [ru]

* 1st Middle Siberian Corps
* 2nd Steppe Siberian Corps
* 3rd Ural Corps
* 4th Eastern Siberian Corps
* 5th Pri-Amur Corps

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Separate Armies|

* Western
* Orenburg
* Ural

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* People's Army of Komuch
* Far Eastern Army
* Zemskaya Rat
* Holy Cross Druzhina [ru]
* Separate Mongolian-Buryat Cavalry Brigade
* Asiatic Cavalry Division
* Czechoslovak Legion
* Russian Army
* 5th Polish Division
* Siberian Fleet
* Baikal Fleet
* White Latvian Riflemen

North-Western Front|

| Armies|

* North-Western
* West Russian Volunteer

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* Chudskoe Flotilla [ru]

Northern Front|

* Northern Army
* Arctic Ocean Flotilla

Middle Asia|

| Armed Forces of South Russia|

* Turkestan Army
* Caspian Flotilla

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* Turkestan Military Organization
* Peasant Army of Fergana

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