Ufa Station Incident

* End of the Monarchist coup attempt

* 227th Asian Motorised Rifle Division
* Governorate of the Steppes (alleged)
 Maj. General Claudius Foss

The **Ufa Station Incident** was a violent confronstation during the 1948 Russian Political Crisis between the Siberian Army forces defending the Kornilovite regime against the monarchist forces of Baron Ungern-Sternberg who were trying to reach Moscow with his troops to join other conspitators.

Background
After the 2nd Kornilovite Coup in 1937, a so-called Government of National Rebrith were founded and later insitutionalised in the government of the Russian National State by the abolition of the Russian Republic, the coalition of political and military forces that backed this process as well as the coup itself united around the figure of Lavr Kornilov however were not united in their goals, some of nationalist tendency, some of liberal monarchist and some of absolutist tendency, the "national rebirth" and the vagueness of the nature of the "National State" as well as the dominating authority of Kornilov kept them at bay and working together during the consolidation period as the followed Russian Unification Wars (the domestic name of the Russian front of the 2nd European War as well as the Russian invasion of Central Asia and the Finno-Russian War). On March 5, 1948. Kornlov suffered a heart attack and died 3 days later, prompting the succession of Marshal Wrangel as the head of the Russian State.      The death of Kornilov immediately created a political crisis in Russia due to the ill-defined role of the "Vozhd of All-Russia" position that the late chieftain held and conferred exclusively to him in the consitutional acts that abolished the Russian Republic (April Decrees). The monarchist faction immidietly pushed for the restoration long-delayed, however Marshal Wrangel indicated that he would follow Kornilov's status quo. Unable to influence Wrangel, a plan soon developed by radical monarchist officers and political leaders to bring a military forces to Moscow to dislodge the Young Kornilovites and Savinkovites and force Wrangel to accept a monarchist government. Monarchist officers across Russia were encouraged to bring their troops to Moscow to demonstrate a show of united support for monarchy within the armed forces. Wrangel under his own pressure of an overthrown by the increasingly disgrunted "Young" Kornilovite officers and nationalists ordered that all military and security forces confined to their barrack else they would be considered commmitting a coup and loyal forces were moved to block these rebellious units from reaching Moscow. Siberian Army detected and disarmed a force attempting to cross the Russo-Mongolian border on the Trans-Siberian Railway they learned that Baron Ungern and a smaller force were already on their way to Moscow days ago using a civilian locomotive. Fearing the entry of such a person as Ungern and other notorious monarchists into the city can enrage the Kornilovite and encourage the monarchist supporters still only deterred from entering the city but not turned back, Wrangel ordered that he must be stopped by all means and thus a GRU detachment quickly flew to the nearest major station along the railway to form a blocking party while nearby forces of the Siberian Army being the only reliable loyal force to disarm him could have time to move in.
Composition of Forces
Security and Military Forces
*Commander*: Major-General Nicholas Kalashnikoff
* Siberian Army Headquarters
	+ 1st Separate Siberian Shock Brigade
	+ 9th Siberian Rifle Division
		- 3rd Battalion, 36th Tomsk Regiment
* Kazan Military District -
	+ Special Armed GRU Detachment - Colonel Claudius Foss
	+ Battalion of National Volunteers of the Ufa Governorate

Monarchist Forces
*Commander*: General Roman von Ungern-Sternberg
* 227th Asian Motorised Rifle Division
	+ 1st Battalion, 1st Buryat Motorised Rifle Regiment
* 9th Company, Separate Mongolian Motorised Rifle Regiment
* 31st Amoured Train Division
	+ Armoured trains No. 659 - "Za Rodina"
* Elements of the Battalion of National Self-Defense Troops of Petropavlovsk