page_title: Siberian Army
section_title: Structure of the Army
hierarchical_section_title: Siberian Army / Structure of the Army
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Екатеринбург во время гражданской войны. Штаб Сибирской армии; (слева направо) в нижнем ряду Гайда, Колчак, Богословский. Февраль 1919
context_page_description: The Siberian Army was an anti-Bolshevik army during the Russian Civil War, which fought from June 1918 – July 1919 in Siberia – Ural Region.
context_section_description: On June 13, 1918, all troops under the command of Grichin-Almazov were concentrated into two corps: 
  the Steppe Siberian Corps (with its headquarters in Omsk, commanded by Col. Pavel Ivanov-Rinov) and
  the Middle Siberian Corps (with its headquarters in Novonikolaevsk, commanded by Lt-Col. Anatoly Pepelyayev).
  On July 11 
  the Ural Corps (with its headquarters in Chelyabinsk, commanded by Col. Mikhail Hanzhin) was formed and organized.
  By August 1918 the Siberian Army had three corps of 2 or 3 four-regimental divisions each (23,147 infantrymen, 14,888 cavalrymen and 22,224 unarmed volunteers).
  At first the Siberian Army was a volunteer one, but it soon became obvious that in order to create a real army it was necessary to organize a program of conscription. The conscription began on August 25, 1918, and by October 1918 the Siberian Army had 10,754 officers and 173,843 soldiers. 
  It was divided eventually into five corps: 
  1st Middle Siberian Corps,
  2nd Steppe Siberian Corps,
  3rd Ural Corps,
  4th Eastern Siberian Corps (with its headquarters in Irkutsk, commanded by Major-Col. Alexander Ellerz-Usov),
  5th Pri-Amur Corps (with its headquarters in Khabarovsk, commanded by Major-Col. Grigory Semyonov).
  It was clearly apparent that by the summer of 1918 the main military force in the eastern part of Russia was the Czechoslovak Legion. During the meeting in Chelyabinsk, which took place on July 13, 1918, it was decided that before the appointment of the Chief of all allied forces in Russia the Siberian troops on the front line would be placed under the command of the head of the Czechoslovak Legion, Maj. Gen. Vladimir Shokorov (he was an officer in the Russian Army during the First World War). At the end of summer, when the Siberian Army became more powerful and Shokorov was replaced by Jan Syrový as the head of the Czechoslovak Legion, tensions began to develop between the Russians and the Czechoslovaks.
caption: Headquarters of the Siberian Army, Yekaterinburg, February 1919. Seated from left to right : Radola Gajda, Admiral Kolchak, Boris Bogoslovskij, Sergey Domontovich.
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