Volunteer Army

Army · Whites · November 15, 1917 – April 4, 1920

White army formed in southern Russia in late 1917; the core of the Armed Forces of South Russia.

December 15, 1917 – February 21, 1918 Formed at Novocherkassk by Alekseyev and Kornilov · map
March 28, 1918 Fails at Yekaterinodar; Kornilov killed (Ice March) · map
August 16, 1918 – June 1, 1919 Takes Yekaterinodar under Denikin · map
June 25, 1919 Takes Kharkiv · map
October 14, 1919 Takes Oryol, its nearest point to Moscow (Orel–Kursk operation) · map
January 8, 1920 – March 20, 1920 Loses Rostov · map
March 27, 1920 Evacuated from Novorossiysk to the Crimea · map