The X-Files was inspired by shows like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, Tales from the Darkside and especially Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

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.

In 1920, Aleksandr Kolchak, the once-feared commander of the largest contingent of anti-Bolshevik forces, was executed in Irkutsk, which effectively destroyed the anti-Bolshevik resistance.

The Aleksandr Kolchak monument, designed by Vyacheslav Klykov, was unveiled in 2004.

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

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.

Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak (, – 7 February 1920 ) was a Russian naval commander, polar explorer and later-the Supreme ruler of the counter-revolutionary anti-communist White forces during the Russian Civil War.

Kolchak was born in Saint Petersburg in 1874.

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

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

Returning to Saint Petersburg in April 1905, Kolchak was promoted to lieutenant commander.

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.

Kolchak was removed from command of the fleet in June and travelled to Petrograd.

On his arrival at Petrograd, Kolchak was invited to a meeting of the Provisional Government.

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 ).

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

Kolchak was an absolute supporter of the Allied cause against Imperial Germany and regarded Russia's immediate withdrawal from the conflict as dishonorable.

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.

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.

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.

* February 7 – Aleksandr Kolchak, Russian naval commander ( b. 1874 )

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.

* Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak (; 1873 – 1920 ), Russian naval commander, head of anti-Bolshevik White forces

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

* 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.

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

When the Red forces managed to reorganise and turn the attack against Kolchak, from 1919 he quickly lost ground.

Kolchak also came under threat from other quarters: local opponents began to agitate and international support began to wane, with even the British turning more towards Denikin.

Despite the arrival of a contrary order from Moscow, Admiral Kolchak was sentenced to death along with his Prime Minister, Viktor Pepelyayev.

Admiral Kolchak was not successful from the time of his taking the position of Supreme Ruler until his death, though it must be borne in mind that he operated under very difficult circumstances.

Monuments dedicated to Kolchak were built in Saint Petersburg in 2002 and in Irkutsk in 2004, despite objections from some former Communist and left-wing politicians and former Soviet army veterans.

To give just two examples: the heroine Geneviève Dieudonné is recycled from Newman's own Warhammer novels ( first appearing in 1989 Drachenfels, written under the name Jack Yeovil ), and Carl Kolchak has a brief cameo as a reporter following the Ripper case.

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

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

The Bolshevik Defence Commissar Leon Trotsky gave Tukhachevsky command of the 5th Army in 1919, and he led the campaign to capture Siberia from the anti-communist White forces of Aleksandr Kolchak.

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.

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.