1st Donetsk Corps

Military unit September 2022 1st Donetsk Corps 1-й Донецкий корпус Soldiers of the 42nd Nagai Regiment. Middle row: 2nd from left - commander G.Z.Golik, 3rd from left - politician A.D. Levanisov 1 September 1919 11 January 1920 Ukraine 1918 Махновское_знамя.svg Makhnovshchina Death_to_oppressors_of_workers.svg Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine Partisan corps 15,000 Donetsk 15,500 bayonets, 3,650 sabers, 144 machine guns, 16 cannons.Belash Belash 1993 382 Ukrainian War of Independence: Battle of Peregonovka Raid of the 1st Donetsk Corps Battle of Elisavetograd Defense of Yekaterinoslav Timofey Lashkevich 1st Donetsk Corps Alexander Kalashnikov 1st Brigade Trofim Yakovlevich Vdovichenko 2nd Brigade Petro Havrylenko 3rd Brigade Mikhail Uralov 4th Brigade Fedir Shchus 1st Cavalry Brigade Lev Zadov Counterintelligence The 1st Donetsk Corps was a military formation of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine, it was created on 1 September 1919 and existed until 1920. History On 1 September 1919, a meeting of insurgents was held in Dobrovelychkivka, at which a delegate was elected from each regiment. The meeting discussed the question of the further political existence of the Makhnovshchina as an independent organism. They also discussed the issue of reorganizing the rebel regiments into a single army that would be effective in guerrilla warfare. The meeting elected a Military Revolutionary Council, as the central command of the insurgents. The insurgent regiments led by Nestor Makhno were officially named the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (RIAU). Viktor Belash was in charge of organizing the army. Belash developed the structure of the RIAU, which consisted of four corps (three active and one reserve), each built from a number of divisions, which were in turn divided into regiments, battalions, companies and platoons.Belash Belash 1993 338 Kalashnikov was appointed at the head of the 1st Donetsk corps.Belash Belash 1993 339 On 27 September 1919, the 1st corps took part in the Battle of Peregonovka, in which the RIAU won a major victory. On 28 September 1919, Makhno decided to conduct a deep raid on the Yekaterinoslav, in which the 1st corps also took part. The Insurgent Army set off on a march in three main columns for the raid. The infantry in carts and cavalry made daily marches of 80-90 versts. The left column, consisting of infantry regiments of the 1st corps, moved 320 miles along the route from Novoarkhanhelsk, to Elisavetgrad, Adjamka ru Аджамка (село) and Kamenka, before they arrived at Yekaterinoslav. Units of the 1st corps did not delay in storming the city and changed their route. As a result, Kalashnikov's column occupied Krivoy Rog (this was part of the task of the 2nd corps), and his attack on Yekaterinoslav did not take place. On 11 January 1920, at a meeting of commanders in Gulyaypole, it was decided to immediately disband the 1st corps to their homes. In the spring of 1920, an insurgent detachment headed by Nestor Makhno was created from the soldiers of the former 1st corps. Composition 1st brigade: brigade commander Kalashnikov, chief of staff Serebryansky, adjutant Mischuk. Assigned 9 guns: 6 three-inch guns, 2 English three-inch guns, 1 mountain gun. 1st Ekaterinoslavsky regiment, Dnipro 3rd Crimean regiment: regiment commander Plaksim, 13th Insurgent Regiment, regiment commander Lashkevich 21st Veselo-Ternovsky: regiment commander Berkovsky, Veseloternovatoe 24th Ternovsky regiment: regiment commander Timofey Cherniy, Dmitry Ivanovich Popov, Ternovka 28th Alexander Regiment, Zaporozhye 1st Kuban Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Ekaterinoslav Cavalry Regiment, Dnipro Garkusha detachment. 1st cavalry brigade: brigade commander Shchus 2nd brigade: brigade commander Vdovichenko. 3rd Don Cavalry Regiment, Pavlovsky detachment, 4th Novospassovsky regiment, Osypenko 1st artillery battalion, 3rd brigade: brigade commander Havrylenko. Assigned 5 guns: four 3-inch and one mountain. 3rd artillery battalion. 8th cavalry regiment, 10th Gulyaypole regiment, Huliaipole 11th Lubitsky Regiment, Lubitskoe 3rd shock Crimean brigade: brigade commander Bondarev. 4th brigade: brigade commander Uralov. Assigned 8 guns: two English 3-inch, five Russian 3-inch, one mountain and of which one long-range. 26th Tavrichesky regiment: regiment commander Ishchenko. 30th Berdyansk regiment, Berdyansk 42nd Nagaysky regiment, regiment commander Golik, Prymorsk 5th brigade: brigade commander Mirzlikin. Assigned one 3-inch gun. 13th Kazan regiment 16th Tavrichesky regiment: regiment commander Bukin 19th Melitopol: regiment commander Ryumshin 6th brigade: brigade commander Pavlovsky. 62nd Dnieper Regiment 66th Crimean regiment: regiment commander Volodin 7th Cavalry Regiment.Makhno 2006 305–306 Supply Department of the 1st Donetsk Corps Horse Intelligence Corps Commandant company Strike group.Makhno 2006 263 See also 2nd Azov Corps Donbas Battalion Donetsk Army 383rd Rifle Division References Bibliography Alexander Belash Victor Belash ru:Дороги Нестора Махно 1993 ru Nestor Makhno ru:Крестьянское движение на Украине. 1918—1921: Документы и материалы Крестьянская революция в России. 1902—1922 гг.: Документы и материалы V. Danilov T. Shanin Moscow "Russian political encyclopedia" (ROSSPEN) 2006 1000 ru Category:Disbanded corps of Ukraine Category:Paramilitary forces of Ukraine Category:Defunct anarchist militant groups Category:Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine Category:Ukraine in the Russian Civil War Category:Military units and formations established in 1918 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1920 Category:Military history of Donetsk Category:Soviet units and formations of the Russian Civil War