Aleksandr Petrovich Filimonov (; – 4 August 1948) was the first

Ataman Ataman (variants: ''otaman'', ''wataman'', ''vataman''; ; ) was a title of Cossack and haidamak leaders of various kinds. In the Russian Empire, the term was the official title of the supreme military commanders of the Cossack armies. The Ukra ...

of the anti-Bolshevik Kuban People's Republic from 1917 to 1919. On 25 October 1917, he was elected Ataman. In December, in an effort to counter Bolshevism in the Kuban, Filimonov supported the formation of two volunteer units, one under Galaev and another under Viktor Pokrovsky. He and his Kuban Cossacks joined the White Army during the

Russian Civil War The Russian Civil War () was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the 1917 overthrowing of the Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future. I ...

, but after disagreements with Anton Denikin, he stepped down as Ataman in December 1919, and emigrated to

Yugoslavia , common_name = Yugoslavia , life_span = 1918–19921941–1945: World War II in Yugoslavia#Axis invasion and dismemberment of Yugoslavia, Axis occupation , p1 = Kingdom of SerbiaSerbia , flag_p ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Filimonov, Alexander History of Kuban 1866 births 1948 deaths Russian anti-communists Atamans 19th-century people from the Russian Empire White movement lieutenant generals