"Smoot. 1919 year. At the end of 1919, the White Orenburg Army was killed. The Cossacks, under the command of Generals Dutov and Bakich, made a Hunger trip in December from the war zone near Akmolinsk to Sergiopol. This campaign began simultaneously with the Great Siberian Ice Campaign of the Kolchak Army.
On October 29, 1919, the Red Army occupied Petropavlovsk and began an almost non-stop pursuit of the enemy along the Trans-Siberian Railway. On November 14, 1919, the whites left Omsk. The Siberian government fled to Irkutsk. Czechoslovak troops, defending the Siberian Railway, refused to fight with the Reds, withdrew and moved to Vladivostok. Thus, they blocked the Trans-Siberian Railway and practically destroyed the opportunity for whites to quickly retreat, break away from the enemy, regroup remaining forces and gain a foothold at a new remote frontier in order to survive the winter and spring offensive again. Broken and demoralized Kolchakites retreated to the east. The Great Siberian Ice Campaign began.
On the left flank of the white Eastern Front, the Dutov Orenburg army retreated to Ishim, and by the evening of October 30, the headquarters of the 4th Orenburg Army Corps arrived in Atbasar. The army was in the most deplorable state. In fact, she was in the formation stage, which she did not have time to complete. Units retreated along the bare, deserted steppe with no supplies. There was no artillery, transport, ammunition, provisions and uniforms. There was no warm clothing, which in the conditions of the onset of winter quickly affected in the most negative way. Settlements were rare and small, that is, they could not become a full-fledged base for the troops. Cossacks surrendered in whole regiments. They did not want to go far east, sought to return to their native villages. Typhus raged in the troops, knocking out half of the manpower. The most combat-ready core of the army was the 4th Orenburg Army Corps of General Bakich, which restrained the onslaught of the enemy…"
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