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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Aleksandr Vasiliyevich Kolchak (Russian:, November 16 1874 February 7, 1920) was a Russian naval commander, polar explorer and later head of all the anti-Bolshevik White forces during the Russian Civil War. He was also a prominent expert on naval mines and a member of the Russian Geographic Society. Among Kolchak's awards are the golden saber "For Valor" in the battle of Port Arthur and the Great Gold Constantine Medal from the Russian Geographic Society. Soviet maps depicted Kolchak Island up until the mid-1930s. Kolchak on ZaryaKolchak was born in Saint Petersburg in 1874 into a military family descending from the 18th-century Romanian mercenary Ilia Colceag. His father was a retired major-general of the Marine Artillery, who was actively engaged in the siege of Sevastopol in 1854-55, and after his retirement worked as an engineer in ordnance works near St. Petersburg. He was educated for a naval career, graduating from the Naval Cadet Corps in 1894 and joining the 7th Naval Battalion of the city. He was soon transferred to the Far East, serving in Vladivostok from 1895 to 1899. He returned to western Russia and was based at Kronstadt, joining the Polar expedition of Eduard Toll on ship Zarya in 1900 as a hydrologist. After considerable hardship, Kolchak returned in December 1902; Eduard Toll with three other members went further north and were lost. Kolchak took part in two Arctic expeditions and for a while was nicknamed "Kolchak-Poliarnyi" ("Kolchak the Polar"). For his explorations Kolchak received the highest award of the Russian Geographical Society. When the Russo-Japanese War began, Kolchak was sent to Port Arthur in March 1904. He served on the cruiser Askold and later commanded the destroyer Serdityi. He succeeded in laying mines... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=170155


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  • ISBN-13: 9781156249307
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 34
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 64 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1156249309
  • Publisher Date: 31 May 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Aleksandr Kolchak
  • Width: 229 mm


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