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Alexander Kolchak
Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak
(, – 7 February 1920) was a
polar explorer
and commander in the
Imperial Russian Navy
, who fought in the
Russo-Japanese War
and the
First World War
. During the
Russian Civil War
, he established an anti-communist government in Siberia—later the
Provisional All-Russian Government
—and was recognised as the "Supreme Ruler and Commander-in-Chief of All Russian Land and Sea Forces" by the other leaders of the
White movement
from 1918 to 1920. His government was based in
Omsk
, in southwestern Siberia.
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