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

Roth warmed to the idea upon hearing of the influence of Kolchak, believing that vampires — one of the central antagonists of the original series — would be popular with audiences given the interest being shown in the upcoming film Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, although Carter insisted on an extraterrestrial-focused series.

Inspiration was also taken from Carter's memories of watching Kolchak: The Night Stalker and The Twilight Zone in his youth ; as well as from the then-recently released film The Silence of the Lambs, which was the impetus for framing the series around agents from the FBI, in order to provide the characters with a more plausible reason for being involved in each case than Carter believed was present in Kolchak.

During the Russian Civil War, the town spent 1918-1920 under the control of Admiral Kolchak, before being occupied by the Japanese until 1925.

The killer has superhuman strength and is invulnerable to weapons, but Kolchak dematerialises the apparently immortal being by electrocuting him.

Contrary to popular opinion, Kolchak was not the author of the Shine, Shine, My Star art song.

Their military forces, bolstered by forced conscriptions and terror and by foreign influence and led by General Yudenich, Admiral Kolchak and General Denikin, became known as the White movement ( sometimes referred to as the " White Army "), and they controlled significant parts of the former Russian Empire for most of the war.

Chris Carter listed television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, Tales from the Darkside and especially Kolchak: The Night Stalker as his major influences for the show.

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.

His series of macabre films include House of Dark Shadows, Night of Dark Shadows, The Night Stalker ( which inspired the series Kolchak: The Night Stalker ), Intruders, The Night Strangler, Burnt Offerings, Trilogy of Terror, The Norliss Tapes ( a 1973 pilot for an unproduced series starring Roy Thinnes ), Curse of the Black Widow, Dead Of Night, Scream of the Wolf and others.

Kolchak was educated for a naval career, graduating from the Naval Cadet Corps in 1894 and joining the 7th Naval Battalion of the city.

Kolchak took part in two Arctic expeditions and for a while was nicknamed " Kolchak-Poliarnyi " (" Kolchak the Polar ").

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.

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 ).

On 19 August 1917 Kolchak with several officers left Petrograd for Britain and the United States as a quasi-official military observer.

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.

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

The SR leaders in Russia denounced Kolchak and called for him to be killed.

Kolchak ’ s government issued a decree on 3 December 1918 stating, “ In order to preserve the system and rule of the Supreme Ruler, articles of the criminal code of Imperial Russia were revised, Articles 99 and 100 of which established capital punishment for assassination attempts on the Supreme Ruler and for attempting to overthrow his government.

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

In 2004, the Constitutional Court of Russia returned the Kolchak case to the military court for another hearing.

( Newman has said that if he had realised he would get so many sequels out of the premise, he would have saved Kolchak up for a story set in the character's native 1970s.

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.

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.

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.

Darren McGavin ( May 7, 1922 – February 25, 2006 ) was an American actor best known for playing the title role in the television horror series Kolchak: The Night Stalker and his portrayal in the film A Christmas Story of the grumpy father given to bursts of profanity that he never realizes his son overhears.

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

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.

Carter's new series would take its stylistic inspiration from Kolchak, while thematically reflecting his experiences growing up during the Watergate scandal.

His career with Kolchak was less successful — the Red Army had begun to take the initiative while Kolchak's forces dwindled away.

Kolchak took part in the rebuilding of the Imperial Russian Navy, which had been almost completely destroyed during the war.

Kolchak took part in designing the special icebreakers Taimyr and Vaigach, launched in 1909 spring 1910.

He played the part of Carl Kolchak, an investigative reporter looking into his wife's murder.

Kolchak acknowledged all of Russia's debts, returned factories and plants to their owners, granted concessions to foreign investors, dispersed trade unions, persecuted Marxists, and disbanded the soviets.

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.

One of their first actions was to dismiss Kolchak.

The Army declared that it joined the forces of Aleksandr Kolchak and marched to attack Bolsheviks, but their real goal was to sustain German power in the Baltic region.

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 news started to filter through of Yudenich, Kolchak and Denikin's consequent defeats, Merezhkovskys saw their only chance of survival in fleeing Russia.

Last photo of Admiral Kolchak taken before his execution in 1920

In June 1920, America and its allied coalition partners withdrew from Vladivostok after the capture and execution of White Army leader Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak by the Red Army.