SouthWestern
Army
January 1919
This
orbat is from
White Guard Almanac #8, citing the Russian Archives (РГВА.
Ф. 39514. Оп. 1. Д. 6. Л. 8-10) and found at a-pesni.golosa.info.
Effectives of Orenburg
Separate Army
as at 18 January 1919
Mryasovsk Sector
Tatishchevo Plastoon Divizion – 1
company, 127 bayonets
Sakmarskiy Horse Divizion
– 3 sotnias, 321 sabres
Northern
Sector
5th Rifle Division
18th
Orenburg Rifle Regiment – 1
battalion, 77 men, 5 MGs
19th Orenburg Rifle Regiment – 1 battalion,
138 men, 4 MGs
20th Orenburg Rifle Regiment – 36 men,
7 MGs
21th Orenburg Rifle Regiment – 1
battalion, 68 men, 5 MGs
9th
Bashkir Rifle Division
37th Bashkir Rifle
Regiment – 1 battalion, 467 bayonets, 33 sabres, 15 MGs
38th Bashkir Rifle Regiment – 1 battalion, 330 bayonets, 73 sabres, 10
MGs
39th Bashkir Rifle Regiment – 1 battalion, 420 bayonets, 14 MGs
40th Bashkir Rifle Regiment – 1 battalion, 368 bayonets, 10
MGs
4th Bashkir battery – 2 guns (3")
This brigade defected soon afterwards.
Attached
9th Orenburg Cossack
Regiment – 6 sotnias, 1084 sabres, 9 MGs
23rd Orenburg Cossack
Regiment – 3 sotnias, 712 sabres, 4 MGs
Militia Horse Sotnia – 78 sabres
3rd Battery of the 5th Rifle Artillery Brigade – 3 guns (37 mm)
Buzuluk Sector
2nd Rifle
Division
5th Syzran Rifle Regiment
– 3 battalions, 506
bayonets, 16 MGs
6th Syzran Rifle Regiment – 1 battalion, 217
bayonets, 11 MGs
7th Khvalinsk Rifle Regiment – 1 battalion, 240
bayonets, 5 MGs
8th Volga Rifle Regiment –
2 battalions, 578 bayonets, 13 MGs
2nd Syzran Cavalry Regiment – 4 sotnias,
280 sabres, 4 MGs
6th Battery of 2nd Rifle Artillery Brigade – 3 guns (3")
4th
Orenburg Cossack Division
19th
Orenburg Cossack Regiment – 6 sotnias, 572 sabres, 13 MGs
20th Orenburg Cossack Regiment – 6 sotnias, 820 sabres, 7 MGs
24th Orenburg Cossack Regiment – 6 sotnias, 840 sabres, 8 MGs
25th Orenburg Cossack Regiment – 6 sotnias, 775 sabres,
9 MGs
4th Orenburg Cossack Artillery
Divizion
11th
Orenburg Cossack Battery – 2 guns (3")
12th Orenburg Cossack Battery – 4 guns (3")
Separate Units
Ataman's Divizion of the
Orenburg Cossack Host – 2 sotnias, 326 sabres, 6 MGs
4th Battery of 2 Rifle Artillery Brigade – 2 guns (3")
3rd Battery of 2nd Heavy Artillery Divizion
– 2 guns (107 mm)
Plastoon Heavy Artillery – 2 guns (6")
Syzran Engineer Company – 35
bayonets, 5 sabres
Armoured Train – 1 gun (3")
Iletsk Sector – 1st
Orenburg Cossack Corps
1st Orenburg Cossack
Division
1st Line Cossack
Regiment – 6 sotnias, 629 sabres, 8 MGs
8th Orenburg Cossack Regiment – 6 sotnias, 723 sabres, 4 MGs
13th Orenburg Cossack Regiment – 6 sotnias, 630 sabres, 9 MGs
Plastoon
Divizion
– 3 companies, 206 bayonets
Separate Line Plastoon Sotnia – 1 company, 73 bayonets
1st Orenburg Artillery
Divizion
1st Orenburg Cossack
Battery – 4 guns (3")
4th Orenburg Cossack
Battery – 4 guns (3")
10th Orenburg Cossack Battery – 3 guns (3")
2nd Orenburg Cossack
Division (part only)
10th Orenburg Cossack
Regiment – 6 sotnias, 731 sabres, 2 MGs
15th Orenburg Cossack
Regiment – 9 sotnias, 661 sabres, 6 MGs
16th Orenburg Cossack Regiment – 6 sotnias, 804 sabres, 9 MGs
11th Buzuluk Rifle Regiment – 3 battalions, 350 bayonets, 24 MGs
7th Orenburg Cossack Battery – 4 guns (3")
Attached
1st Orenburg
Cossack Regiment – 6 sotnias, 721 sabres, 12 MGs
1st Orenburg Plastoon Regiment – 9 companies, 770 bayonets, 11 MGs
Ataman Regiment – 161 bayonets
Steppe Partisan Detachment – 199 bayonets
2 Sotnias of 1st Reserve Divizion
– 2 sotnias, 73 bayonets, 150 sabres
1st Reconnaissance Sotnia
– 163 sabres
2nd Reconnaissance Sotnia
– 235 sabres
6th Sakmarsk Horse Sotnia – (communications unit)
Special Task Force, Cossacks of Ugol' and Grigorievsk Villages – 110
bayonets, 104 sabres, 3 MGs
Howitzer Battery – 4 guns (122 mm)
Heavy Gun Battery of Divizion
of Staff-Captain Nosarev – 3 guns (107 mm)
Plastoon Light Battery – 1 gun (3")
42-Line Battery Platoon – 2 guns (107 mm = 42-line)
1st Battery of 2nd Heavy Artillery Divizion
– 4 guns (152mm)
Armoured train – 1 gun (3")
Orsk Sector
21st Orenburg Cossack
Regiment – 6 sotnias, 774 sabres, 6 MGs
Light Gun Battery of Artillery Divizion
of Staff-Captain Nosarev – 2 guns (3")
Reserve of the
Commander of the Separate Orenburg Army
Separate Units
14th Orenburg Cossack
Regiment – 6 sotnias, 673 sabres, 17 MGs
Berdsk Horse Sotnia – 105 sabres
Escort Sotnia to the Commander of the Army – 62 sabres, 4 MGs
Aviation Group of the Separate Orenburg Army – 5 planes + 2 faulty
Reserve of the Supreme
Commander
1st Separate Sotnia of the
Orenburg Host – 108 sabres
The total forces add up
to almost 6,000 bayonets, 13,000 sabres, 319
MGs and 53 guns.
However, this includes the Bashkir Brigade, the bulk of which was already unreliable and soon to defect.
The actual operating total is therefore about 4,500 bayonets, 13,000 sabres, 270 MGs and 50 guns.