6th Kiev Corps

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6th Kiev Corps
6-й Київський корпус
ActiveOctober 1, 1919–1920
AllegianceМахновское знамя.svg Free Territory
BranchDeath to oppressors of workers.svg Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine
TypePartisan corps
Size1,000
Nickname(s)Kiev Insurgent Corps
Equipment500 bayonets,
20 sabers,
4 machine guns.
EngagementsUkrainian War of Independence
Commanders
Notable
commanders		Alexander Kalyuzhny

The 6th Kiev Corps was a military formation of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine, one of 4 corps which was created in October 1919 and existed until 1920.

History[]

On September 1, 1919, a meeting of rebels 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 the Revolutionary Military Council of the Army, the central command of the Insurrectionary Army. 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.[1]

At the end of September 1919, the RIAU headquarters in the village of  [ru] created the Kiev Corps from a battalion of former Grigorievites and the 1st Makhnovist regiment, and Alexander Kalyuzhny was elected commander. The group was instructed to go to the village of Peschaniy Brod, to find Nestor Makhno and give him the orders of the headquarters and the RIAU council. The insurgent group was also supposed to occupy the area of Uman, Tarashcha, Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi and Zvenyhorodka,[2] in the vicinity of which the Makhnovists were to start forming the "Kiev Insurgent Corps". On October 1, the created corps left Verblyuzhki to conduct military operations in the Uman region, where they helped evacuate wounded Makhnovists.[3]

On November 17, Ryabonov's Kiev group in the Korsun region occupied Stavyshche and Kaniv, destroying and displacing the forces of Abram Dragomirov to Volodarka.[4][5]

Second formation[]

In November 1919, as part of the 3rd Yekaterinoslavsky corps, the Volno-Cossack Insurgent Yekaterinoslavschiny group was created, headed by Gladchenko, the further command assumed by this group included the Middle Dnieper group, and other small detachments in the regions of Kamianske, Znamianka and Dolinskaya, after which the group was deployed to the 6th Kiev corps.[6]

Composition[]

  • Grigorievsky battalion
  • 5th Gulyaypole regiment (3rd corps)

References[]

  1. ^ Belash & Belash 1993, p. 338.
  2. ^ Shatailo 2000, p. 39.
  3. ^ Belash & Belash 1993, pp. 349–350.
  4. ^ Belash & Belash 1993, p. 380.
  5. ^ Shatailo 2000, p. 40.
  6. ^ Belash & Belash 1993, p. 381.

Bibliography[]

  • Belash, Alexander; Belash, Victor (1993). Дороги Нестора Махно (in Russian).
  • Shatailo, O. L. (2000). Генерал Юрко Тютюнник (in Russian). Lviv: Svit. p. 144. ISBN 966-603-041-1.
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