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General Vladimir Kappel, who was appointed to this position in mid-December 1919, led the retreat. After his death from pneumonia on 26 January 1920, General Sergey Voytsekhovsky took command of the troops.

Vladimir Oskarovich Kappel (Russian: Влади́мир О́скарович Ка́ппель, April 28 [O.S. April 16] 1883—January 26, 1920) was a White Russian military leader. During the First World War he was a Chief of the 347th Infantry Regiment's Staff and an officer in the 1st Army's Staff.

Kappel served as officer in the Imperial Russian army during World War One and fought Red Army forces on the Siberian front in Russia's civil war following the 1917 Boshlshevik revolution. His army was forced to retreat eastwards in the so called Great Siberian Ice march, during which he died in 1920.

On Jan. 26 of 1920, at Utai junction near the station Tulun not far from the city of Nizhneudinsk, Vladimir O. Kappel died of a double pneumonia. The general's last words were: "Let my soldiers know that I've always been committed to them, loved them and proved it by my death."

Revolt of the Czechoslovak Legion The revolt of the Czechoslovak Legion comprised the armed actions of the Czechoslovak Legion in the Russian Civil War against Bolshevik authorities, beginning in May 1918 and persisting through evacuation of the Legion from Siberia to Europe in 1920.

The Simbirsk Operation was the Bolshevik Red Army 's offensive against Vladimir Kappel 's anti-Bolshevik People's Army of Komuch and Czechoslovak Legion. The attack came at Simbirsk, on the Eastern Front of the Russian Civil War, in September 1918.

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