Initially, the British were inclined to accept Kolchak ’ s offer, and there were plans to send Kolchak to Mesopotamia ( modern Iraq ).

:* 1, 000 British-Serbian and Polish Rifles assigned to assist Admiral Kolchak ’ s White Guard forces in the north and make a junction with his Siberian forces ( Czechoslovak Legion ) near Kotlas.

The modern Russian Navy thought about naming the third ship of the new s, Admiral Kolchak to commemorate the Admiral but the time was not right and the name was not assigned.

Omsk became a prime target for the Red Army, who viewed it as crucial to their Siberian campaign, and eventually forced Kolchak and his government to abandon the city and retreat along the Trans-Siberian eastward to Irkutsk.

The remaining cabinet members met and voted for Kolchak to become the head of government with emergency powers.

Emblem of the Kolchak government

The American commander, General William S. Graves, personally disliked the Kolchak government, which he saw as Monarchist and autocratic, a view that was shared by the American President, Woodrow Wilson.

After decades of being vilified by the Soviet government, Kolchak is now a controversial historic figure in post-Soviet Russia.

By the start of spring 1918, the Russian Civil War began to ignite around the rest of the country, and the Soviet government had much more urgent needs for leaders: it reassigned Aleksandr Kolchak on the Volga and Anton Denikin in the south.

Note that the White generals such as Kolchak or Denikin are not considered warlords, because they created a legitimate, though ramshackle government and military command.

During the civil war the towns and cities of the Russian Far East were generally controlled by local authorities which cooperated to a greater or less extent with the White Siberian government of Alexander Kolchak or the succeeding invading forces of the Japanese Army.

Admiral Alexander Kolchak succeeded in creating a temporary wartime government in Omsk, acknowledged by most other White leaders, only for it to fall with the loss of his armies.

He was opposed to Bolshevism, advised Anton Denikin on international affairs, and was foreign minister in the anti-Bolshevik government of Admiral Kolchak.

On November 20, 1918, two days after admiral Kolchak become the head of the White government of Siberia, the " whites " in Nadezhdinsk executed 23 of their " red " opponents.

After the October Revolution and the outbreak of the Russian Civil War he also got involved in the counter-revolutionary Russian government led by Supreme Governor Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak.

Postage stamp issued in 1919 with the inscription " For United Russia-Supreme leader of Russia Kolchak "

* The second period: January – November 1919, featured the White armies ' successful advances, from the south, under Gen. Anton Denikin, from the east, under Gen. Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, and from the northwest, under Gen. Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich, that defeated the Red Army on each front.

Investigative shows, related to the mystery genre, such as Kolchak: The Night Stalker, also mostly avoid the issue ( though they are hard on secondary characters ).

Being heavily influenced by Kolchak, Carter wanted to create a scary television show, as he thought there was not anything scary on television at the time.

Additionally, he made guest appearances on many popular shows, including Dragnet in 1967, Bewitched and McMillan & Wife in 1971, Adam-12 in 1972 ( as " George Strothers "), Ironside in 1973, Kolchak: The Night Stalker and Sanford and Son in 1974, Starsky and Hutch in 1977, Charlie's Angels in 1978 and Magnum, P. I.

During the Crimean War of 1853 – 1856, one of seven surviving defenders of a stone tower on the Malakov Kurgan, which were found by French troops among the dead, was seriously wounded Vasily Kolchak – the father of the future Supreme ruler ( head of all the counter-revolutionary anti-communist White forces during the Russian Civil War ) of Russia Aleksandr Vasiliyevich Kolchak.

Kolchak on Zarya

In December 1903, Kolchak was on his way back to St. Petersburg, there to marry his fiancee Sophia Omirova.

After the outbreak of war initially on the flagship Pogranichnik, Kolchak oversaw the laying of extensive coastal defensive minefields and commanded the naval forces in the Gulf of Riga.

Admiral Essen was not satisfied to remain only on the defensive and ordered Kolchak to prepare a scheme for attacking the approaches of the German naval bases.

Kolchak, being of the opinion that the person responsible for planning operations should take part in their execution, was always on board those ships which carried out the operations and sometimes took direct command of the destroyer flotillas.

When the news was received by the then Naval Minister of the Provisional Government, Alexander Kerensky, he ordered Kolchak to leave immediately for America ( Admiral James H. Glennon, member of American mission, headed by Senator Elihu Root invited Kolchak to go to America in order to give the American Navy Department information on Bosphorus ).

Ultimately, the British Foreign Office decided that Kolchak could do more for the Allied cause by toppling Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks and bringing Russia back into the war on the Allied side.

Kolchak had returned to Omsk on November 16 from an inspection tour.

Kolchak was unfamiliar with combat on land and gave the majority of the strategic planning to D. A.

They withdrew from the conflict in October 1918 but remained a presence ; their foreign adviser Maurice Janin regarded Kolchak as an instrument of the British and was pro-SR. Kolchak could not count on Japanese aid either ; the Japanese feared he would interfere with their occupation of Far Eastern Russia and refused him assistance, creating a buffer state to the east of Lake Baikal under Cossack control.

Kolchak had left Omsk on the 13th for Irkutsk along the Trans-Siberian Railroad.

A Kolchak biopic, titled Admiral ( Адмиралъ ), was released in Russia on 9 October 2008.

* An essay on Aleksandr Kolchak, including a photo

Carter was among the first wave of new staff hired by Roth in 1992 to develop material for the network, and he began work on a series based on his own childhood fondness for The Twilight Zone and Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

Tired of the comedies he had been working on for Walt Disney Pictures, inspired by a report that 3. 7 million Americans may have been abducted by aliens, and recalling memories of Watergate and the 1970s horror series Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Carter came up with the idea for The X-Files and wrote the pilot episode himself in 1992.

After considerable hardship, Kolchak returned in December 1902 ; Eduard Toll with three other members went further north and were lost.

In December 1918, the Siberian White Army under Anatoly Pepelyayev ( who acknowledged the authority of the Omsk Government of Aleksandr Kolchak ), took Perm.

The " Provisional All-Russian Government " was established here in 1918, headed by the Arctic explorer and decorated war hero Admiral Kolchak.

Kolchak was a supporter of the Provisional Government and returned to Russia, through Vladivostok, in 1918.

However, after Admiral Kolchak was installed as " Supreme Leader ," of the White Movement in November 1918, he expelled all Marxists from the ranks.

Wrangel insisted instead that his forces should take Tsaritsyn first, to join up with the army of Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak, which he accomplished on June 30, 1919 after three previous attempts by Pyotr Krasnov had failed in 1918.

In 1918 and 1919 Velidi's Bashkir troops first fought under Ataman Alexander Dutov, then under Admiral Kolchak against Bolshevik forces.

After the Bolshevik Revolution construction work was suspended for a decade, and the long Semipalatinsk – Ayaguz line, built in 1918 – 19 by the White Russians on the initiative of Admiral Kolchak, was demolished for no apparent reason.