ЮНКЕРА ОМСКИХ ШКОЛ ПРАПОРЩИКОВ В ГРАЖДАНСКОЙ ВОЙНЕ НА ВОСТОКЕ РОССИИ

Abstract

This publication is an attempt to trace the collective fate of students (cadets) and the commanding staff of the 1st and 2nd Omsk schools for the training of infantry warrant officers in the period from November 1917, that is, from the moment the schools were disbanded in October and November and the anti-Bolshevik uprising 2nd Omsk school of warrant officers on November 1–3, 1917, until mid-1918, when the so-called “Detachment at the 2nd school of warrant officers” was formed in Omsk. The fates of individual officers are traced up to the mid-20s. The methodological concept of publication is a combination of an anthropological approach and a descriptive-narrative method. The source base in relation to the judicial privates and officers of the Omsk schools was made up of the published memoirs of M.M. Basov, materials of the Siberian periodicals of the period under review, the published office documentation of the organs of the OGPU of the Ukrainian SSR. Regarding the Detachment at the 2nd (Omsk) school of ensigns, new data was found in unpublished sources stored in the Russian State Military Archive (RGVA), in particular, fund no. 39498 “Office of the 2nd separate steppe Siberian corps” and fund no. 39617 “Headquarters of the Siberian army”. As a result of the study, it was possible to establish that a significant part of the students (cadets), graduates (warrant officers) and individual officers of Omsk schools by the beginning of the full-scale Civil War in Siberia in June 1918 were on the territory of Western Siberia, in particular, in Omsk. They formed the “core” of the so-called “Detachment at the 2nd school of ensigns”, on the basis of which the 3rd Steppe Siberian Rifle Regiment was formed in June 1918, which was later renamed the 15th Kurgan Siberian Rifle Regiment. Some participants in the events of November 1–3, 1917 in Omsk were subjected to investigation and trial in May 1918. In the conclusion, it is emphasized that for Omsk, the formation of the summer of 1918, the 2nd Omsk school for training infantry warrant officers became one of the army symbols of the anti-Bolshevik struggle. The publication is addressed to a wide range of readers, including specialists in the history of the Russian (imperial) army, the First World War and the Civil War, the white movement, and local historians.