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1st Caucasus Cossack Division (Russian Empire)
The 1st Caucasus Cossack Division was a cavalry unit within the Imperial Russian Army. They were headquartered at Kars Kars ( or ; ; ) is a city in northeast Turkey. It is the seat of Kars Province and Kars District.� ...
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Commanders

* 1879: S. A. Sheremetev * 1898–1899:
Alexei Domontovich * 1912–1915: Nikolai Baratov * 1916–1918: Ernest-Avgust Ferd. Raddatz


Chiefs of Staff

* 1879–1880: Yakov Dmitryevich Malama * 1896: A. A. Zegelov * 1901–1902: Fyodor Chernozubov


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Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughly one-sixth of the world's landmass, making it the list of largest empires, third-largest empire in history, behind only the British Empire, British and Mongol Empire, Mongol empires. It also Russian colonization of North America, colonized Alaska between 1799 and 1867. The empire's 1897 census, the only one it conducted, found a population of 125.6 million with considerable ethnic, linguistic, religious, and socioeconomic diversity. From the 10th to 17th centuries, the Russians had been ruled by a noble class known as the boyars, above whom was the tsar, an absolute monarch. The groundwork of the Russian Empire was laid by Ivan III (), who greatly expanded his domain, established a centralized Russian national state, and secured inde ...
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Imperial Russian Army
The Imperial Russian Army () was the army of the Russian Empire, active from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was organized into a standing army and a state militia. The standing army consisted of Regular army, regular troops and two forces that served on separate regulations: the Cossacks, Cossack troops and the Islam in Russia, Muslim troops. A regular Russian army existed after the end of the Great Northern War in 1721.День Сухопутных войск России. Досье
[''Day of the Ground Forces of Russia. Dossier''] (in Russian). TASS. 31 August 2015.
During his reign, Peter the Great accelerated the modernization of Russia's armed forces, including with a decree in 1699 that created the basis for recruiting soldiers, military regulations for the organization of the a ...
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Kars
Kars ( or ; ; ) is a city in northeast Turkey. It is the seat of Kars Province and Kars District.İl Belediyesi
, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
As of 2022, its population was 91,450. Kars, in classical historiography (Strabo), was in the ancient region known as ''Chorzene'' (), part of the province of Ayrarat in the Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity), Kingdom of Armenia, and later the historic capitals of Armenia, capital of the Bagratid Kingdom of Armenia from 929 to 961. Currently, the mayor of Kars is Ötüken Senger. The city had an Armenians, Armenian ethnic majority until it was re-captured by Turkish National Movement, Turkish nationalist forces in late 1920.


Etymology

The city's name may derive from the Armenian language, Armenian w ...
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Aleksey Domantovich
Aleksey Domantovich (March 10, 1846 – 1908) was a Russian general and the commander of the Persian Cossack Brigade. Biography Domontovich was born on March 10, 1846, in a family of Kuban Cossacks, who came from an old Zaporozhye family; He was educated in the 2nd Moscow Cadet Corps (1863) and in the Alexander Military and Mikhailovsky Artillery Schools. In 1864, the corps of the Kuban Cossack army was released from the Aleksanrovsky School of the Coroon into the equestrian artillery No. 11. In 1872, Domontovich entered the Nikolayev Academy of the General Staff, after which in 1875 he was promoted to captain, transferred to the General Staff, and appointed senior adjutant to the headquarters of the 38th Infantry Division (Russian Empire). At the end of 1876, Domontovich was sent to the disposal of the chief of the Erivan detachment, Lieutenant General Tergukasov, with whom he took part in the occupation of Bayazet, Diadin, Surp-Oganez and Big Karakilisa, in the battles on t ...
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Nikolai Baratov
Nikolai Nikolaevich Baratov (; February 1, 1865 – March 22, 1932) was a Russian general during World War I and the Russian Civil War. Early career Baratov was born in Vladikavkaz, in the Terek Oblast of the Russian Empire. Although of ethnic Georgian descent (his real name was Baratashvili), he was also an ataman of the Terek Cossacks. He entered the military in 1882, and graduated from the Konstantinovskoe Artillery School and the Saint Petersburg Military Engineering-Technical University (Nikolaevsky) in 1885. He was assigned to the 1st Sunzha-Vladikavkaz Regiment of the Terek Cossack Army and was promoted to '' sotnik'' in December of the same year. In 1891 he graduated from the Nikolaev General Staff Academy with the rank of captain, and was assigned to serve in the Caucasus Military District. He commanded a squadron of dragoons from 1893 to 1894, and was assigned to the Stavropol Cossack Cadet School as an instructor from 1895 to 1897. He was promoted to colonel i ...
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Fyodor Chernozubov
Fyodor Grigoryevich Chernozubov (14 September 1863 – 14 November 1919; sometimes seen as Theodore G. Chernozubov) was a Russian Imperial Army officer who became lieutenant general on 20 February 1915. His father was Grigori Chernozubov. He was trained at Page Corps and later Imperial General Staff Academy in 1889. He became Chief of Staff of the 1st Caucasus Cossack Division (Russian Empire) from 17 April 1901 to 10 December 1902 at the Russian Caucasus Army. He was assigned Chief troops Caucasia on 10 December 1902. Between 30 July 1902 to 1 June 1906, he was the head of the cavalry training of Persian Cossack Brigade. He was appointed Chief of Staff of Terek Cossacks on 26 November 1908. He published several articles on military intelligence. From 4 July 1916 he was Commander II Caucasus CAW and showed himself as a talented commander. After the February Revolution The February Revolution (), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Rev ...
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Kelbali Khan Nakhchivanski
Kelbali Khan Ehsan Khan oghlu Nakhchivanski (, in some documents Kalbalai-Khan-Eksan-Khan-Ogly; 1824 – April 1883) - was an Azerbaijani Cavalry General (14 September 1874) in the Imperial Russian Army. Father of the Adjutant General, General of Cavalry Huseyn Khan Nakhchivanski and brother of the General of the Cavalry Ismail Khan Nakhchivanski. His father Ehsan Khan Nakhichevansky, later known by his Russified name of Ehsan Khan Nakhichevansky was the last ruler of the Nakhichevan Khanate. The beginning of the military service At the age of thirteen, "by the order of the Emperor Nicholas I", Kelbali Khan was admitted to the Corps of His Imperial Majesty's Pages in St. Petersburg. However, he failed to complete his studies due to a serious illness that forced him to return to his homeland in Nakhchivan. After a while, having regained his health, Kelbali Khan began the service within the Kengerlinsky Equestrian Militia (Kengerly Cavalry). In 1848, being already the head of t ...
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