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Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine
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The Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine, also known as the Black Army, was an anarchist army led by Nestor Makhno during the Russian Civil War.
In mid-1919 the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine had a strength of approximately 15,000 men organized into 1 cavalry and 4 infantry Brigades, a machine gun regiment with 5000 guns, and an artillery detachment. At its peak in December 1919 it had nearly 83,000 infantry, 20,135 cavalry, 1,435 machine guns, 118 guns, 7 armored trains and some armored cars.[1] It was organized into 4 Corps and the strategic reserve. Each Corps had 1 infantry and 1 cavalry Brigade; each Brigade had 3-4 Regiments of the appropriate type.[2]
Commanders
- Batko Makhno (Huliaipole (ГулÑйполе); anarchist-communist)
- Simon Karetnik (Huliaipole; anarchist-communist)
- Marchenko (Huliaipole; anarchist-communist (1907))
- Grigory Vasilevsky (Huliaipole)
- Boris Veretelnikov (Huliaipole; SR; anarchist-communist (1918))
- Peter Gavrilenko (Huliaipole; anarchist-communist (1905))
- Vasily Kurilenko (Novospassovka)
- Viktor Belash (Novospassovka; anarchist)
- Kalašnikov (Huliaipole; anarchist)
- Mikhalev-Pavlenko (deminer)
- Fedir Shchus (Bolšaja Mihailovka)
- Ivan Lepetchenko (Huliaipole; anarchist)
- Aleksandr Lepetchenko (Huliaipole; anarchist)
- Dmitry Ivanovich Popov (Moscow; left SR)
- Lev Zadov
