page_title: Alexander Kutepov
section_title: Russian Civil War
hierarchical_section_title: Alexander Kutepov / Biography / Russian Civil War
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Командир 1-го Армейского корпуса генерал А.П.Кутепов после парада с цветами на Соборной площади в только что освобожденном Добровольческой Армии в Харькове English: General Koutepoff, Commander of the 1st. Army Corps. (Volunteer Army)
context_page_description: Alexander Pavlovich Kutepov was the leader of the anti-communist Volunteer Army during the Russian Civil War. From 1928 to 1930 he was Chairman of the Russian All-Military Union.
context_section_description: After the October Revolution, Kutepov joined the anti-Bolshevik Volunteer Army (part of the White Movement) at the very outset of the Russian Civil War. At the start of the Ice March in early 1918, Kutepov was a company commander of an officer's regiment. (In the beginning of the Russian Civil War the small Volunteer Army had a surplus of officers, which meant that many of them had to serve as common soldiers. These formations soon became the crack units of the White Army.) After the death in battle of Colonel Nezhentsev, Kutepov took over the command of the Kornilov Shock Regiment, and after the death of the commander of the 1st Infantry Division, he became its commander. When the Whites captured Novorossiysk in August 1918, Kutepov was appointed Governor General of the Black Sea region.
  Starting in January 1919, 36-year-old Lieutenant General Kutepov became the commander of the 1st Army Corps of the White Army. Throughout his career, Kutepov had a reputation for being a decisive, direct and no-nonsense military leader. During the chaotic times of the Russian Civil War, order was usually rapidly restored after Kutepov's arrival. He accomplished this, however, by means of the swift and ruthless application of the death penalty on suspected looters and pogrom perpetrators.
caption: Alexander Kutepov in Kharkiv after taking the city in June 1919.
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