Kuban Cossack forces

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Kuban Cossack forces were anti-Bolshevik military units from the Kuban region that played a significant role fighting for the White movement during the Russian Civil War.

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Observed surface forms (4)

Surface form Occurrences
Kuban Cossacks 5
Caucasus Army 1
Kuban Cossack Host 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf White movement unit
anti-Bolshevik force
military formation
activePeriod 1917–1920
alliedWith Russian Army (Wrangel)
surface form: Armed Forces of South Russia

Don Cossack forces
Volunteer Army
associatedWith Kuban People's Republic government
Kuban Rada
commandStructure Cossack host system
conflict Russian Civil War
country Kuban People's Republic government
surface form: Kuban People's Republic
disbanded circa 1920
engagedIn anti-partisan warfare against Bolshevik supporters
counter-revolutionary operations
ethnicComposition Kuban Cossack forces self-linksurface differs
surface form: Kuban Cossacks
formedFrom Kuban Cossack forces self-linksurface differs
surface form: Kuban Cossack Host units
goal resistance to Soviet power in Kuban
historicalContext Russian Revolution
surface form: Russian Revolution of 1917

collapse of the Russian Empire
ideology anti-communism
monarchism
locatedIn Kuban River
surface form: Kuban

North Caucasus
militaryBranch artillery
cavalry
infantry
militaryTradition Cossack military service
notableRole defense of Kuban against Bolshevik forces
support of White offensives in the North Caucasus
notableTheater North Caucasus Front of the Russian Civil War
opposedBy Red Army units in the North Caucasus
opposedTo Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)
surface form: Bolsheviks

Red Army
partOf Kuban Host
White movement
primaryEnemy Russian SFSR
surface form: Soviet Russia
recruitmentBase Kuban Cossack stanitsas
region Black Sea coast
surface form: Black Sea region

southern Russia
surface form: Southern Russia
resultOf disintegration of Imperial Russian Army in 1917
sideInConflict Whites
status defunct
type irregular troops
regional militia
usedFor protection of Cossack land tenure in Kuban
usedLanguage Russian

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Volunteer Army alliedWith Kuban Cossack forces
this entity surface form: Kuban Cossack Host
Kuban River associatedPeople Kuban Cossack forces
this entity surface form: Kuban Cossacks
Kuban Cossack forces ethnicComposition Kuban Cossack forces self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Kuban Cossacks
Kuban Cossack forces formedFrom Kuban Cossack forces self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Kuban Cossack Host units
White Army hasPart Kuban Cossack forces
White Guard movement hasPart Kuban Cossack forces
White movement hasPart Kuban Cossack forces
southern Russia historicallyAssociatedWith Kuban Cossack forces
subject surface form: Southern Russia
this entity surface form: Kuban Cossacks
this entity surface form: Kuban Cossacks
Denikin offensive on Moscow involves Kuban Cossack forces
this entity surface form: Caucasus Army
Cossacks subgroup Kuban Cossack forces
this entity surface form: Kuban Cossacks