Aleksandr Vasil'yevich Kolchak: Arctic Scientist and Explorer
Aleksandr Vasil'yevich Kolchak is undoubtedly best remembered by history for the role he played in the Russian civil war, and especially for his role as ‘Supreme Ruler of All the Russias’, in sole command of the White Russian armies in Siberia and with his seat of government at Omsk (Fleming, 1...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0032247400003922 2024-03-03T08:41:58+00:00 Aleksandr Vasil'yevich Kolchak: Arctic Scientist and Explorer Barr, William 1981 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400003922 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400003922 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Polar Record volume 20, issue 129, page 507-524 ISSN 0032-2474 1475-3057 General Earth and Planetary Sciences Ecology Geography, Planning and Development journal-article 1981 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400003922 2024-02-08T08:33:02Z Aleksandr Vasil'yevich Kolchak is undoubtedly best remembered by history for the role he played in the Russian civil war, and especially for his role as ‘Supreme Ruler of All the Russias’, in sole command of the White Russian armies in Siberia and with his seat of government at Omsk (Fleming, 1963, p 111). Probably the best-known incident of his entire career is the one that ended it: in the early hours of 7 February 1920, by the light of a lorry's headlights, he was executed by a Bol'shevik firing squad beneath the walls of Irkutsk prison, and his body bundled through a hole in the ice of the Ushakovka, where it flows past the prison to its confluence with the Angara (Fleming, 1963, p 216; Grondijs, 1939, p 55). Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Polar Record Siberia Cambridge University Press Arctic Polar Record 20 129 507 524 |
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Aleksandr Vasil'yevich Kolchak is undoubtedly best remembered by history for the role he played in the Russian civil war, and especially for his role as ‘Supreme Ruler of All the Russias’, in sole command of the White Russian armies in Siberia and with his seat of government at Omsk (Fleming, 1963, p 111). Probably the best-known incident of his entire career is the one that ended it: in the early hours of 7 February 1920, by the light of a lorry's headlights, he was executed by a Bol'shevik firing squad beneath the walls of Irkutsk prison, and his body bundled through a hole in the ice of the Ushakovka, where it flows past the prison to its confluence with the Angara (Fleming, 1963, p 216; Grondijs, 1939, p 55). |
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