Alexander Kolchak

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Alexander Kolchak was a Russian admiral and anti-Bolshevik leader who headed the White movement in Siberia during the Russian Civil War and briefly ruled as "Supreme Ruler" of Russia.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf White movement leader
admiral
anti-Bolshevik leader
human
military leader
naval officer
politician
allegiance Russian Empire
White movement
birthDate 1874-11-16
birthPlace Russian Empire
Saint Petersburg
capturedBy Czechoslovak Legion
Socialist-Revolutionary Political Center in Irkutsk
causeOfDeath execution by firing squad
countryOfCitizenship Russian Empire
deathDate 1920-02-07
deathPlace Irkutsk
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
ethnicGroup Russian
familyName Kolchak
fieldOfWork naval warfare
polar exploration
fullName Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak
givenName Alexander
governmentHeaded Russian State (Omsk Government)
knownFor anti-Bolshevik leadership in Siberia
service as an admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy
mannerOfDeath execution
militaryBranch Imperial Russian Navy
militaryRank Admiral
movement White movement
nativeLanguage Russian
notableFor leadership of the White movement in Siberia
role in the Russian Civil War
occupation explorer
military leader
naval officer
politician
opposedBy Bolsheviks
participantIn Russian Civil War
Russo-Japanese War
World War I
patronymicName Vasilyevich
positionHeld Commander-in-Chief of the Russian armed forces (White movement)
Minister of War and Navy of the Provisional All-Russian Government
Supreme Ruler of Russia
religion Russian Orthodox Church
title Supreme Ruler of Russia


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