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Name: Eastern Russia, Siberia and Far East of Russia Theatre of War (1918)
Type: Event
Start: 1918 AD
End: 1918 AD
Parent: Russian Civil War
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Eastern Russia, Siberia and Far East of Russia Theatre of War (1918)
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Was the theatre of war in Siberia and the Russian Far East in 1918, during the Russian Civil War.
Chronology
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July 1918: Simultaneously Russian officers' organisations overthrew the Bolsheviks in Petropavlovsk.
September 1918: The Bolsheviks re-captured the city of Kazan following a counteroffensive.
August 1918: In Eastern Siberia Radola Gajda took Irkutsk and Chita.
June 1918: Territorial change based on available maps.
July 1918: Whites had extended their gains westwards, capturing Ekaterinburg.
August 1918: In July, White Russian troops commanded by Vladimir Kappel took Syzran.
August 1918: Czechoslovak troops took Kuznetsk.
August 1918: Anti-Bolshevik forces advanced towards Saratov and Kazan.
August 1918: Within a month the Whites controlled most of the Trans-Siberian Railroad between Lake Baikal and the Ural regions.
September 1918: On the 11th Simbirsk fell to the Bolsheviks.
October 1918: Samara was taken by the Soviets. The Whites fell back eastwards to Ufa and Orenburg.
September 1918: During the summer Bolshevik power in Siberia was eliminated.
August 1918: On the Volga, Col. Kappel's White detachment captured Kazan.
December 1918: After several failures, the Whites took Perm.
December 1918: White armies had to leave Ufa.
June 1918: In May 1918, with the support of the Czechoslovak Legion, the Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly - known as the "Komuch" - was established in Samara and Saratov. By July the authority of the Komuch extended over much of the area controlled by the Czechoslovak Legion.
