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The Kornilov Shock Regiment (Russian: Корни́ловский уда́рный полк), previously the 1st Shock Detachment (Russian: 1-й Ударный отряд) and also called Kornilovites (корниловцы), was a shock unit of the Russian Army founded during World War I that later was part of the Volunteer Army during the Russian Civil War.
Kornilov regiment: background of shoulder boards: black top, red bottom, white piping, white stripes for officers and white zigzag for generals; [3] in case of embroidered shoulder boards for parade uniform: white embroidery, piping and officer stripes split in two (black top, red bottom), while the zigzag of generals was of the same color as ...
Kornilov became the military commander of the anti-Bolshevik Volunteer Army with Alekseev as the political chief. [14] The Kornilov Shock Detachment of the 8th Army was the most famous and longest-lived volunteer unit in the Russian Imperial Army. It was also the last regiment of the Russian Imperial Army and the first of the Volunteer Army. [15]
The "shock battalions" were created from soldiers of existing military units, in some cases with entire regiments being designated as shock units, and received additional training with grenades and machine guns. All of the shock unit members were able to wear red and black chevrons and the death's head skull insignia. The volunteers for these ...
On 4 September 1917, Lavr Kornilov transformed the Caucasian Native Cavalry Division into the Caucasian Native Cavalry Corps, [29] by reinforcing it with the 1st Dagestan Regiment and Ossetian units. [30] During the course of the Kornilov affair, the corps was among the units ordered by Kornilov to march on Petrograd. [31]
The 1st Shock Army (Russian: 1-я ударная армия) was a field army established by the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II.The 1st Shock Army was created in late 1941 and fought in the northern areas of Russia and the Baltic States until the surrender of Germany in 1945.
The Russian Kornilov's Shock Detachment adopted a death's head emblem in 1917. Then after World War I, the unit became Kornilov's Shock Regiment as a part of the White Russian Volunteer Army during the Russian Civil War.
The attack was not successful. The Red shock fire brigade attacked, according to some reports, in red shirts, and during the assault they lost half of their men. The Turkish Wall was occupied only by two Kornilov shock regiments (1000 bayonets), and the third regiment stood with the front to the east, to Syvash, to guard against a flanking ...